Judge: Women Should Get Abortions

“With the planet already overcrowded, my personal belief is that a young woman who finds herself unmarried and pregnant should get an abortion.”

Judge Robert Michelson in The Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Judicial misconduct: Summer 2001

Quoted by Life Dynamics

9 – 10 weeks

Aborted at nine weeks:

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A Fetus Is like a Tapeworm, Says Pro-Choice College Student

Shane Krouse, MSU sophomore and State News columnist:

“If anything, a fetus is merely a parasitical creature that uses the mother as its host. Tapeworms are parasites that house themselves in the intestinal tracts of humans, feeding off the food the host consumes. Comparatively, a fetus is little more than a tapeworm. It is quite common for humans to annihilate parasites with medications or toxins, so why not allow for fetuses to suffer the same fate?”

MSU State News:Wad of cells does not equate to human life, abortion isn’t murder:7-26-2006

bodies of aborted babies

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Pro-choice author compares banning abortions to rape

Here is a quote from a pro-choice author who interviewed workers and observed at an abortion clinic where abortions were done up to 26 weeks.

“Denying women access to safe abortion (whether we have been raped or not) is itself a form of figurative, if not literal, violation …. Rape denies us bodily integrity; so does restricting abortion. Both are strategies designed to subjugate women.”

Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996)229

first trimester abortion
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J.M. Buchanan on “Pro-Life”

“I object to the monopolization of the term pro-life by groups whose agenda is to make abortion illegal and deny women the right and responsibility to decide this very personal matter. I am certainly not “antilife,” nor am I proabortion. I am for choice. The issue is whether women should have that freedom.”

Buchanan, J. M. (2012, Mar 07). Life and health. The Christian Century, 129, 3-3.

Below: Aborted at 10 weeksClick here to see what other babies look like aborted at this age.

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Eleanor Smeal: Pro-Choicers Need to Take Back “Moral Highground”

Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation and a leader in the women’s equality movement for more than 30 years, said religious groups and feminists have often been “on a collision course,” but they need to work together for reproductive choice. 

“I feel we’re missing the boat in not taking back the moral high ground on this issue.”

Supporters of legal abortion talk strategy. (2001, Apr 11). The Christian Century, 118, 10-10.

Can pro-choicers really have the moral high ground?

 

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“I Love Abortion”

From a pro-choice blog that can be found here. 

Here is a picture of a nine week old unborn baby. 42% of all abortions are done LATER than nine weeks.

Here are some pictures of babies aborted at nine weeks.

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“I love abortion” (at 26 Weeks)

From the blog of abortion clinic workers, the Abortioneers. Screen capture:

sonogram at 26 weeks
baby aborted around this time
baby born at 23 weeks

 

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Catholic Theologian: What about “Just” Abortions

Catholic theologian David Maguire, Professor of Moral Theology

“How is it that in speaking of women we so easily reduce human life to physical life? What certitudes persuade theologians that there are only two marginal reasons [to save the life of the mother or to remove a dead or dying unborn baby] to justify abortion? Why is the Vatican comparably sure that while there may be just wars with incredible slaughter, there can be no just abortions?”

Catherine Whitney Whose Life? A Balanced, Comprehensive View of Abortion from Its Historical Context to the Current Debate (New York: Morrow, 1991) 170 – 171

aborted baby at 11 weeks
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Clinics Should Be Called Places of “Healing and Care” Says Worker

“In an op-ed piece that appeared in the New York Times shortly after a gunman killed some employees and wounded others at two Brookline, Massachusetts, abortion clinics, a counselor at one of the clinics complained that the media kept referring to her workplace as an abortion clinic. “I hate that term,” she declared. At the end of the piece she suggested that her abortion clinic ought to be called “a place of healing and care.”

George McKenna “On Abortion: a Lincolnian Position” the Atlantic Monthly, September 1995

The results of the procedure done at one of these places of “healing and care” at nine weeks

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On Being Pro-Choice

“I don’t see how anybody can not be pro-choice. I mean, I really – I don’t see it.”

clinic worker

Wendy Simonds. Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996) 112

The picture above is of a baby aborted at 24 weeks. The clinic worker quoted here works at a clinic that performs abortions up to 26

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