Category: Rhetoric Vs. Reality

One pro-choice activist says the following:

“I am a vegetarian. The killing of sentient, biologically autonomous birds or mammals who have done nothing to me, solely to satisfy a completely unnecessary (and unhealthy) lust for artery-clogging animal fat, is something that I personally consider to be immoral and unethical…  even if the embryo is human, it still would not have the right to force the mother to use her body to keep it alive against her will. If the decision to give birth is what she wants, then “life” is a “beautiful choice.” But it is her choice; she cannot legally be forced into it….” [Emphasis in original]

TF Barans “Women’s Reproductive Self-Determination: Pro-Choice Right to Abortion” copyright 1999-2007

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An article in The Human Life Review quotes judge Lewis Powell describing a woman’s right to an abortion this way:

 “The abortion patient has a right not only to be rid of the growth, called a fetus…but also has a right to a dead fetus.”

Hadley  Arkes “Slouching Towards Infanticide” The Human Life Review Summer 1998

Calling a fetus, which is an unborn baby, a “growth” shows a remarkable ignorance of biology. An unborn baby is not a growth – here she is a living organism with a heartbeat and circulatory system and DNA that is distinct from the mother. Below is a picture of a sonogram of a “fetus” in the first trimester. Does it look like a growth?

Go here to see a picture of what a “fetus” looks like after an abortion  in the first trimester (at 10 weeks)

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One doctor says the following:

“I prefer to look at the problem [of abortion] through the eyes of Darwin and evolution. Why not permit abortion in the first trimester, when the embryo is still a salt water creature …?”

George Crile, Jr., M.D., retired head of surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. “When Does Human Life Begin?” Guest editorial in the Medical Tribune, March 6, 1985

Is this a saltwater creature? It’s hard to believe that a doctor could be so poorly informed about fetal development. Perhaps he knows the facts and is just using propaganda to support abortion.

Here is a picture of what this unborn baby looks like after a nine week abortion:

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A publication put out by Planned Parenthood in Chicago said the following:

“But aren’t there alternatives to abortion? Yes, there are. A pregnant women can carry the baby to term and she can then keep it or relinquish the baby for adoption. Relinquishment is often not a very humane procedure.”

“Let’s Tell the Truth About Abortion.” Booklet distributed by Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood. Fight Back Press, 1985.

Is this more humane than giving the baby to a loving couple?

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“Nobody is for abortion,” at least one speaker will intone at any pro-choice rally. The implication is that decent people will always disdain it. That is precisely the attitude we should be fighting to change … We must be for abortion …”

Tom Flynn. “‘Pro-Choice:’ Wrong Turn for Abortion Rights?” Free Inquiry (“An International Secular Humanist Magazine”), Winter 1991/92, pages 6 and 7.

 

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One pro-choice author said the following:

“No one is entitled to turn a personal opinion about when a private medical procedure is ethical and when it isn’t into a law that interferes with a decision made between a provider and patient. For many women, an abortion is exactly what they need, and all they need…I’m not convinced that  even if they do understand the real and complex reasons behind a woman’s decision to  terminate a pregnancy, anti-choicers will see how heartless and fantasy-based their belief system is.”

Emily Douglas “Does it Matter why Women Have Abortions?” The Nation Aug 21, 2012

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Kate Michelman:

“I think there will be a civil war if Roe versus Wade is overturned….”

Quoted in Roger Rosenblatt. Life Itself: Abortion in the American Mind (New York: Random House, 1992) 30

In a sense, there is a war already. And babies like this one are the casualties. (10 weeks)

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Mary Anne Warren, a philosopher at San Francisco State University, “Can the Fetus Be an Organ Farm?” Hastings Center Report, October 1978, pages 23 – 25

“fetuses, especially those as old as five or six months, elicit our sympathy, and tempt us to endow them with moral rights, not only because they are potential people, but because they look disconcertingly like people; their physical features are recognizably human. This sympathy is misplaced… A proper respect for the right to life requires that it not be respected where does not exist.”

In this article, Warren promoted the idea of using aborted baby’s organs for research on transplantation.

 

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