They said it.
Caitlin Moran, columnist for the Times of London:
“By whatever rationale you use, ending a pregnancy 12 weeks into gestation is incalculably more moral than bringing an unwanted child into this world.”
Lauri S Friedman. Abortion (San Diego, CA: Reference Point Press 2009)20
Here is a picture of a 10 week-old unborn baby (12 weeks gestation)
Here is what he or she looks after an abortion:
Planned Parenthood claims that the Catholic Church is waging a “war on women” by fighting against abortion:
“The opinion and actions of the Holy See in regard to sexual and reproductive health and rights are seen by many as a kind of war, a war that contributes to the suffering and deaths of millions of innocent people, a war not conducted with guns and fire but with condemnation and psychological torture.“
“Planned Parenthood Says Vatican Waging War on Women” EWTN news brief Jun 27, 2000
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Pro-Choice apologist Jane English asserts:
“…the similarity of the fetus to a baby is very significant. A fetus one week before birth is so much like a newborn baby in our psychological space that we cannot allow any cavalier treatment of the former while expecting full sympathy and support for the latter… An early horror story from New York about nurses who were expected to alternate between caring for six-week premature infants and disposing of viable 24 week aborted fetuses is just that — a horror story.”
Jane English, “Abortion and the Concept of a Person” Biomedical Ethics Thomas A.Mappes and Jane S.Zembaty , editors (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981) 430
Baby aborted at this age:
Abortions at this age are often performed by injecting poison into the heart of the baby (or sometimes just into the amniotic fluid, which causes a slow death)and inducing labor. In other cases, these babies are dismembered.
Share on FacebookPro-choice Senator LYN ALLISON
“It is galling listening to the men, and it is mostly men, who have such contempt for women who terminate unwanted pregnancies, who have neither the compassion nor the understanding of the huge and, for many, daunting task of taking an embryo the size of a grain of rice to adulthood.”
Stephanie Peatling “One in three Women Have An Abortion, and I am one of them” Sydney Morning Herald, Feb 9, 2006
In reality, polls show that women are more pro-life than men. A typical abortion is done on an unborn baby at 7-11 weeks. Here is an 8 week old unborn baby.
And here is what it looks like when an unborn baby of this age is aborted:
From pro-choice speaker Barbara Ferrero:
“We believe that the decision to have an abortion could be a good moral decision. We believe that women need to be seen is making good moral decisions for their own lives.”
Speech delivered at Marquette University, November 2, 1987 quoted in Monica Migliorino Miller Abandoned: the Untold Story of the Abortion Wars (Charlotte, North Carolina: St. Benedict Press, 2012) 65
Henry P David, psychologist active in the international abortion movement, said the following:
“[the decision to have an abortion] represents a healthy coping with reality, a maturing experience.”
Henry P David, “Abortion: a Continuing Debate” Family Planning Perspectives 10, no. 5 (September – October 1978) 313 – 316
In reality, abortion often leads to emotional distress and mental health issues in women. Read some of the studies about abortion’s psychological impact here.
Share on Facebook“The majority of women who abort do so because they know that the unwelcome child, born of constraint or misfortune, will be wounded in some unacceptable way. As Artemis might kill a wounded animal rather than allow it to limp along miserably, so a mother wishes to spare the child painful destiny.”
Ginette Paris, the Sacrament of Abortion (translated by Joanna Mott) (Dallas: Spring Publications, 1992) 146 – 147
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“The existence of a safe, surgical, legal abortion is often a genuine moral blessing, despite a degree of moral ambiguity that needs to be acknowledged.”
Beverly Wildung Harrison
Our Right to Choose: toward a New Ethic of Abortion (Boston: Beacon press, 1983) 18 Quoted in Germain Kopaczynski No Higher Court: Contemporary Feminism and the Right to Abortion (Scranton: University of Scranton Press, 1995) 150
“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
In The New Age Journal, Brenda Petersen wrote the following:
“I approach this abortion as a sacred act of compassion and letting go. Many mothers before me, and grief and with wisdom, have made holy the sacrifice.”
Brenda Petersen, “Moon Times: a Meditation for Spiritual Healing from Abortion” The New Age Journal September/October, 1993 page 65 of Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009)
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