“When women ask me how I can perform abortions every day, I tell them that I don’t consider the work to be a chore or an imposition. On the contrary, I’m honored to be part of their decision-making process. It seems obvious that many women aren’t able to imagine how rewarding it is for me to watch a female patient take steps on her path through life—steps that will empower her and make her able to be responsible for herself and her family.”
Suzanne T. Poppema, and Mike Henderson, Why I Am an Abortion Doctor (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1996) 2 Dec. 2006, 122
Kate Michelman, when she heard that the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (a law that would allow separate criminal penalties for killing an unborn baby during an assault or murder) was redubbed Laci and Conner’s Law (after the murder of Laci Peterson and unborn son Connor)
“It’s so crass, so offensive. It’s part of a larger strategy to establish the embryo would separate distinct rights equal to if not greater than the woman.”
Debra Rosenberg “the War over Fetal Rights” Newsweek, June 9, 2003, 44
From Laci Connor’s mother:
“Congress would be saying that Conner and other innocent unborn victims like him are not really victims — indeed, that they never really existed at all. But our grandson did live. He had a name, he was loved, and his life was violently taken from him before he ever saw the sun…..
The Unborn Victims of Violence Act explicitly says that it does not apply to abortion, or to any acts of the mother herself. Having said that, I have no difficulty understanding that any legislator or group opposed to abortion logically would also support this bill to protect the lives of unborn children like Conner from violent criminal actions, I welcome their support… what I find difficult to understand is why groups and legislators who champion the pro-choice cores are blind to the fact that these two victim crimes are the ultimate violation of choice.”
“Abortion is very safe. It is safer than giving birth and safer than receiving an injection of penicillin. Like all medical procedures, there are some risks with abortion, but the risk is comparatively minimal. “
“To me, there is no conflict or contradiction in a doctor delivering babies as well as performing abortions. In each case, he’s helping a patient. That is what you have acquired your knowledge for and that is what it is your moral obligation to do…. I have never had any regrets about performing abortions.”
Dr. Henry Morgentaler, Canadian late term abortionist.
Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue. . (New York: Insight Books, 1995. p 122
“When you end what the woman considers a disastrous pregnancy, she has been literally given her life back.”
Dr. Harrison, who has aborted over 20,000 babies.
Quoted from Nov. 29, 2005, Los Angeles Times article, “Offering Abortion, Rebirth,” by staff writer Stephanie Simon In by Nat Hentoff in An Abortionist’s World; How to Rationalize Inhumanity. Newspaper Title: The Washington Times. Publication Date: February 6, 2006. Page Number: A17.
Peg Johnston, director of Southern Tier Women’s Services abortion clinic near Binghamton, New York, offers women a polished stone as a “memento” of her abortion. She also discusses Native American and Buddhist rituals with the women. According to Johnston:
‘There is no Hallmark card for you, but it doesn’t mean you can’t honor your loss.”
Ms. Magazine in their article, Abortion under attack(August-September, 2001)
“Rather than trying to cozy up to the forced-birth camp, women who value their freedom should be proud to say that they like abortion. In fact, they should venerate it whole-heartedly. Abortion is our last refuge, the one final, definitive instrument that secures our bodily autonomy. What’s not to love?”
Jessica DelBalzo “I Love Abortion: Implying Otherwise Accomplishes Nothing for Women’s Rights” RH Reality Check, March 14, 2012. can be found here
Pro-Choice politician John Crystal defends abortion in the following manner:
“If there’s anything that bothers me, it’s people trying to force their judgments on someone else. And that’s what this is – a right to privacy issue. The rights of people to have their own personal and religious beliefs.”
quoted in Roger Rosenblatt Life Itself: Abortion In The American Mind. (New York: Random House, 1992) 168
“I would like to add another reason to love abortion. As a provider and counselor, I find that it is one of those rare events when you are allowed–demanded–to step back and look at your life. Affirm it, question it, change it, tweak it. Whatever. It gives women the opportunity, if they want it, to understand themselves as agents of their lives. There can be a lot of knowledge and wisdom that comes from such life defining experiences and it should be celebrated.”
