Category: Rhetoric Vs. Reality

“Besides, a fetus is not a baby. With its assault on basic science, including evolution, and its intentionally misleading and grotesque signs, the fundamentalist movement has misled many into imagining that aborted fetuses are cute little babies just waiting to be cuddled….Since there is no way these fetuses could become fully formed, independent human beings except as a subordinate part of a woman’s overall biological processes for nine months, declaring that they all should be preserved means reducing women to incubators and slaves to their biology. ..The simple truth is that a woman who cannot control her own reproduction has no more freedom than a slave. And if half of humanity is not free, then no one can truly be free.”

The World Can’t Wait: Drive Out the Bush Regime” Last Clinic Standing by Sunsara Taylor, 7/13/06

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“There should not be the slightest communal concern when a woman elects to destroy the life of her thousandth-of-an-ounce embryo. But all society should rise up in alarm when it hears that a baby that is not wanted is about to be born.”

Abortion Advocate Garrett Hardin

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“What if our mothers had aborted us? We wouldn’t have existed. So what? Things that don’t exist have no opinions one way or another. To be blunt, it’s a stupid and pointless argument and anyone who actually thinks that it’s a good one deserves to be ridiculed.”

I’mNotSorry.net

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“As the procedure was performed, basking in the supportiveness of the female nurses, I felt I was acting in synch with a grand tradition of women before me.”

Greta’s Story, I’mNotSorry.net

 

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My husband and I have been together for over three years, we love each other very much, we have a beautiful home, and almost everything we ever wanted. I say almost because we are young, there are so many things we want to do with our lives before we settle in to raise a family. Neither of us are ready to have a child, so we chose to end my pregnancy, we didn’t have to discuss this decision for days, it was the right one. I don’t believe that I should carry a child to term if I don’t want to, people preach about adoption. Not an option. I didn’t want anything growing inside me. I didn’t want to deal with the changes to my body, my lifestyle, my hormones, my job.”

Elizabeth’s Story, I’mNotSorry.net

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“Myself, I’d as soon weep over my taken tonsils or my absent appendix as snivel over [“My abortions! All five of them.”] I had a choice, and I chose life – mine.”

Julie Burchill, British feminist and abortion advocate, from “Abortion: still a dirty word” in The Guardian, 5/25/2005

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“I’m pro-choice because I couldn’t fully enjoy sex were I consumed with worry about the potential consequences. I’m pro-choice for all my friends who’ve had abortions and gone on to do great things, who are better women for being childless (for now). I’m pro-choice for the new moms and dads I know who were able to actively choose to become parents. I’m pro-choice for all those babies… born knowing they’re 100 percent loved and wanted.”

Rachel Kramer Bussel, “I’m Pro-Choice and I F*ck”, Village Voice, January 13, 2006

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“An embryo is a potential human being. It can, granted the woman’s choice, develop into an infant. But what it actually is during the first trimester is a mass of relatively undifferentiated cells that exist as a part of a woman’s body…. The embryo under three months is something far more primitive than a frog or a fish. To compare it to an infant is ludicrous… That tiny growth, that massive protoplasm exists as part of a woman’s body.”

Leonard Peikoff, quoted in Daniel Leone. Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints (San Diego, California: Greenhaven Press) 2002

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“We should not be surprised to find a human fetus looks like us; rather we would be amazed if it resembled an elephant…It is a fact that the fetus is human life, but when do we accept that developing human life as a fellow human being? That question can only be answered according to our individual beliefs.”

 

National Abortion Rights Action League (now NARAL Pro-Choice America). Looseleaf booklet entitled “Organizing for Action.” Prepared by Vicki Z. Kaplan for the National Abortion Rights Action League, 250 West 57th Street, New York, N.Y. 10019. 51 pages, no date.

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“Those of us who are pro-choice are also, passionately, pro-life. Most of us love babies, love children, and love our liberty – not to mention loving sex and our right to have it when, how, and with whomever we choose.”

 

Rachel Kramer Bussel, “I’m Pro-Choice and I F*ck”, Village Voice, January 13, 2006

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