They said it.
“Pregnancy begins when a woman is comfortable with its beginning. It depends on your own personal views and what you want to believe.”
Jennifer Kessell, a spokeswoman for Roberts Pharmaceuticals, the Canadian manufacturer of Preven, quoted in Celeste McGovern. “Marketers of the Preven ‘Morning After Pill’ Are Engaged in Re-Defining Pregnancy.” The Report News magazine, December 6, 1999. Also quoted in the December 9, 1999 issue of American Life League’s Communique.
[Opposing abortion] is the same mind-set that opposes the notion of women working. It’s a view that doesn’t reflect reality and ignores the concept that women are contributing members of society.”
Excerpts from Jane Fonda’s keynote speech during the annual Utahns for Choice dinner at the downtown DoubleTree Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah, on June 27, 2000.
“To sentence a woman to bear a child against her will is an unspeakable violation of her rights…Such a sentence represents the sacrifice of the actual to the potential, of a real human being to a piece of protoplasm, which has no life in the human sense of the term. It is sheer perversion of language for people who demand this sacrifice to call themselves ‘right-to-lifers.’ “
Leonard Peikoff in his book Objectivism in the Chapter on Government
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“… having a full set of human DNA does not give the zygote full human rights – including the right not to be aborted during its gestation. Don’t believe me? Here, try this: reach up to your head, grab one strand of hair, and yank it out. Look at the base of the hair. That little blob of tissue at the end is a hair follicle. It also contains a full set of human DNA. …Your hair follicle shares everything in common with a human zygote except that it is a little bit bigger and it is not a potential person. (These days even that’s not an absolute considering our new-found ability to clone humans from existing DNA, even the DNA from a hair follicle.)”
Brian Elroy McKinley, author of “Why Abortion is Biblical” in his essay “Why Abortion is Moral” as cited in Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints published by Greenhaven Press, 2002
“For many women, abortion currently acts as an essential back-up to contraception, necessary to enable them to regulate their fertility and plan their families… In this context, it is inappropriate for abortion to be considered as a problem – rather it is a solution to a problem.”
“Defending Abortion in Law and Practice” Ann Furedi and Ellie Lee, March 1, 2001 “Pro-Choice Forum”
“I, along with countless other people, believe abortion is a positive moral good and a blessing for women. It’s an act that empowers them, literally saves their lives, saves their existing or future children’s lives, protects and improves their health and that of their families, gives women back their chosen lives, enables them to pursue their career and educational aspirations, improves their economic prospects, allows them to better themselves, gives them a level playing field in the public sphere with men, and enables them to truly attain and exercise liberty and other constitutional freedoms. How can anything that saves women’s lives and gives them hope and freedom be “bad”?…Abortion is inextricably intertwined with pregnancy and motherhood – that is, good mothers will have both babies and abortions.”
Joyce Arthur, Pro-Choice feminist, Open Letter to William Saletan. “Your’s is a “War” We Cannot Support” January 29, 2006. See http://www.prochoiceactionnetwork-canada.org/articles/arthur-saletan.shtml
“Cherie Blair can call herself a feminist all she likes, but any feminist worth her salt would have made a point of having a termination when she got knocked up the last time. Wantonly giving birth to a fourth child on a planet buckling under the strain of overpopulation certainly isn’t any sort of example to set for gymslip mums, who can at least plead ignorance and rampant fertility.”
Julie Burchill, British feminist and abortion advocate, from “Abortion: still a dirty word” in The Guardian, 5/25/2005
“A developing fetus is biologically alive. It grows and changes rapidly, but these characteristics do not make it alive as a person.”
Steven Maynard-Moody, The Dilemma of the Fetus: Fetal Research, Medical Progress, and Moral Politics (St. Martins Press: New York) 1995, p 74
“[T]he abortion patient has a right not only to be rid of the growth, called a fetus, in her body, but also has a right to a dead fetus. . . [I] never have any intention of trying to protect the fetus, if it can be saved…”
Dr. Robert Crist, abortion doctor, testifying in Federal Court in 1980.
Thomas J Marzen, “the Supreme Court on Abortion: Doctor Knows Best” the national right to life news, June 30 1983, 15
“The practice of abortion is unrelated to the status of the fetus – it hinges totally on the aspirations and needs of women…If fetuses did have a right to live, one could make an equal case for the right of unwanted fetuses not to live. This is alien to the anti-choice assumption that all life is precious and should be encouraged and preserved at any cost. In the real world, however, some people commit suicide because they no longer want to live, and others wish they’d never been born….”
Pro-Choice Action Network, “The Fetus Focus Fallacy” Joyce Arthur
