“Banning abortion is like rape – the violent assertion of male domination and male supremacist society over women, forceful and violent control of women’s bodies, in the most personal dimensions.
Banning abortion means suppression of women by force of law and the state. It is institutionalized violence against women.”
Revolutionary Worker “A Revolutionary Communist Viewpoint on Abortion and Women’s Liberation” January 15, 1995
Below are diagrams of the two most common abortion procedures. Is opposing these procedures equivalent to supporting rape?
Abortionist Dr. Michael S Burnhill referred to abortion as:
“A consistently high quality, humane service.”
Michael S Burnhill “Humane Abortion Services: A Revolution in Human Rights and the Delivery of a Medical Service” Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine 42 (September/October 1975): 950
Pictures of aborted babies at 10 weeks. Was this humane?
Pro-Choice author Rosalind Petchesky, in Abortion and Woman’s Choice, says:
“Rather than apologize for abortion, feminists must proclaim loudly—as they did in the late 1960s and the early 1970s—that access to safe, funded abortion is a positive social need of all women of childbearing age.”
Rosalind Petchesky Abortion and Woman’s Choice: The State, Sexuality & Reproductive Freedom (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1990)
Quoted in Camille S. Williams “Abortion and the Actualized Self” First Things November 1991
Abortion is not a “positive social need” for the babies it kills.
“It was so easy to arrange. It was so quick and efficient that it was very easy to turn off from the fact that you were having an abortion. It was probably less painful and less anxiety making than a trip to the dentist. And in a way, almost because of the ease and the quickness, and the fact that it was accepted as right and proper and your own personal choice – you could kind of go on automatic pilot about it. It was only later that I got to thinking about how I had taken this decision.”
She recalls what she did when she found out she was pregnant:
“So I thought I’d phone up several of these abortion clinics which advertise in the Village Voice and elsewhere. You really get a choice in New York. If you ask around. If you ask someone about such and such a one they’ll say, “Oh, this one, Midtown, on the east side, very plush, 6 inch pile carpets, fresh cut flowers and everything” and I thought, oh God, I can’t be doing with that. So I went to this place on 13th St. and Park.”
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 174-175
“It was reasonably pleasant..…It only took three minutes. You come around virtually immediately. Just feeling a bit woozy. And then, there we were in the next room, in a row, like factory farming, everybody sort of groaning because the one thing they don’t tell you is that there is a degree of pain afterwards.…. It cost $125 at the time – fantastically reasonable. Abortion is a competitive business in America and that keeps the prices sharp….. There was no question of counseling or anything like that: it was purely physical.”
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 275 – 276
9 week preborn baby
What this child would look like after an abortion:
