They said it.
American psychiatrist Zigmond M Lebensohn:
“[Abortion is] the practice of humanitarian medicine at its very best.”
Zigmond M Lebensohn “Abortion, Psychiatry, and the Quality of Life” American Journal of Psychiatry 128 (February 1972): 950
Below: Preborn baby at 9-10 weeks before and after abortion.
“Fetuses, especially those as old as five or six months, elicit our sympathy…because they look disconcertingly like people; their physical features are recognizably human. But this sympathy is misplaced…. While a fetus of five or six months may, perhaps, possess some flickering of sensation, or some capacity to feel pain, this is equally true and probably even more true of creatures like fish or insects….a proper respect for the right to life requires that it not be respected where it does not exist.”
Mary Ann Warren, Commentary on “Can the Fetus be an Organ Farm?” Hastings Center Report October 1978, p 23-24
is this not life?
Is the child above really equivalent to an insect or fish?
Does this look like an insect?
Share on FacebookFrom pro-abortion author Miriam Claire:
“There are many reasons for choosing to have an abortion. Perhaps underlying them all is a deeply maternal, instinctive feeling that the time is not right to give birth and that to do so would be detrimental to all concerned… For some women, and abortion is one of the most profound events they will experience in life.”
Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (New York: Insight Books, 1995) 17
Is it “maternal” to kill a baby? Is it not detrimental to the baby to kill him or her?
Merle Hoffman, former abortion clinic owner and founder:
In a very profound sense, the truth is that Abortion, the act of choosing whether or not to have a child, is [in] and of itself, a mother’s act.
Abortion is so often an act of love, love for oneself, one’s family, for the children one has.
Merle Hoffman “ABORTION – THE “ISSUE” On the Issues Volume 12, 1989
20 week old preborn baby before abortion:
21 weeks, after abortion. Is this an act of love?
Pro-Choice writer Ginette Paris:
“The majority of women who abort do so because they know that the unwelcome child, born of constraint and misfortune, will be wounded in some unacceptable way. As Artemis may kill a wounded animal rather than allow it to limp along miserably, so a mother wishes to spare the child a painful destiny. There is nothing more cruel than the suffering of children, and mothers know this better than anyone. It is not immoral to choose abortion; it is simply another kind of morality, a pagan one.”
Ginette Paris The Sacrament of Abortion (Dallas, Texas: Spring Publications Inc., 1992) 56
Preborn baby at ten weeks:
Would it make sense to kill this baby to prevent her from suffering?
“The staff in this office does sacred work and though you may hope to never come back, we return each day to hear your stories, hold your hands, and ease your fears. Our lives are consumed with caring for yours. In these walls and in our hearts you are forever valued, treasured, respected and safe.”
Sign in the waiting room of Summit Women’s Center, owned by David Lipton, an abortion clinic in Connecticut
Quoted in Eleanor J Bader “40 Years after Roe V Wade, Getting an Abortion Is Still a Major Challenge” On the Issues, Winter 2013
Read about abortion’s physical and emotional consequences for women.
This is some of the abortion clinics “sacred work” at eight weeks:
and at 10 weeks:
“And what of the children of unwanted pregnancies? Many are born to single mothers or families that are scarcely able to support them. Many others are victims of abuse or neglect. …
We do not mean to callously suggest that these children would have been better off if they had never been born. What we do mean to say is that if every woman had a choice about whether to allow each embryo to develop into a child, we would have better social services and happier families.”
Colin McSwiggen, Fatima Hussain “Opinion: A fundamental right for women” The Tech Nov 5 2010
To abort because a baby may be abused is illogical, as abortion itself is child abuse. To brutally tear apart a baby because he or she may not live in a “happy family” is wrong.
Pro-choice writer Joyce Arthur says the following in her essay “Know Your Enemy” (Pro-Choice Action Network)
“It [Abortion] means valuing quality of life over quantity of life. Access to legal, safe abortion is a blessing, because it benefits women, families, and society…. To choose not to give birth when there’s little foundation for that child’s well-being is a moral and caring act.”
In the world of many pro-choicers, abortion is an act of kindness because it spares an unborn baby suffering. There is no reference to the suffering the unborn baby may go through during an abortion.
Do these pictures show a moral, caring act?
Share on FacebookFrom a pro-choice writer:
“A government’s failure to provide abortions constitutes depraved indifference to human life. … We look forward to a world in which every woman is guaranteed her right to an abortion whenever she wants, for any reason “
Colin McSwiggen, Fatima Hussain “Opinion: A fundamental right for women” The Tech Nov 5 2010
So refusing to let a woman abort is “depraved indifference to life?” I would think that abortion itself would be depraved and be indifference to the life of the baby.
The baby below (aborted at 11 weeks) was the victim of an abortion. Would preventing his death be “depraved indifference?” Or was the abortionist himself indifferent to this child’s fate?
Actress Margot Kidder:
“Abortion might be killing a life. But if there is a sin, it is the sin that we adults perpetuate on the children of the earth – who truly are innocent and defenseless – by bringing those children into the world when they will not be cared for.”
Paul M Clark “The Source of Human Dignity” in Paul T Stallsworth The Right Choice (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1997)
Is this less of a ‘sin’ than allowing the baby to be born?
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