“[I] feel abhorrence for the idea of deliberately bringing an unwanted pregnancy to term, delivering forth a helpless human being, and then just giving it away to others to care for. To never again take any responsibility whatsoever for a baby deliberately brought into this world seems to me utterly barbaric!
By contrast, abortion is absolutely moral and responsible. To stop the pregnancy and prevent the birth of a child who cannot be properly cared for shows wisdom – an understanding of the realities of life.”
Constance Robertson, “The Religious Case for Abortion” in David L Bender and Bruno Leone Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints (San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1991)
Is adoption barbaric? or is abortion (shown below, on a ten week old human) barbaric?
“Even if the experience is difficult, making the decision and going through an abortion can bring a time of change and growth.… It may create a new sense of self, a new identity as a woman, as a woman capable of handling the crisis and able to take charge of her life …
Choosing to have an abortion is, in a most fundamental sense, a way of having control over one’s life. Grasping even this bit of power over one’s destiny can strengthen the woman…
Abortion can be an act of personal courage… It is choosing to seek our greatest happiness; it means having the freedom to explore who we really are, who we truly want to be, to have the chance to push the limits of our potential. Pursuing happiness is not a selfish action; it is an act of love.”
Sumi Hoshiko Our Choices: Women’s Personal Decisionsabout Abortion (New York: Harrington Park Press, 1993) 21 – 22
Michael S Policar, then VP of Medical Affairs at Planned Parenthood, blurbed the book Our Choices: Women’s Personal Decisionsabout Abortion by Sumi Hoshiko . He said:
“[Hoshiko] skillfully demonstrates… the demeaning message that is sent to women who choose abortion, implying that their actions are less loving than those women who carry their pregnancies to term.”
Blurb on Sumi Hoshiko Our Choices: Women’s Personal Decisionsabout Abortion (New York: Harrington Park Press, 1993)
“Our view is, abortion is nothing special. Abortion is right up there with having a baby or getting the care for whatever other medical needs you have.”
Dr. Anne Davis of Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
Lawrence Lader, who founded NARAL and was pivotal in legalizing abortion in New York, said the right to abortion was a moral cause on par with the abolition of slavery in the 1800s:
“Both involved fundamental moral and religious positions that collided with the entrenched interests of their time.… [And both] had been created by laws which were blatantly in conflict with basic rights seemingly protected by the Constitution…”
Lawrence Lader Abortion II: Making the Revolution (Boston: Beacon Press, 1974) ix
First trimester ultrasond
How is killing a baby like this one equal to freeing a slave?
“[A]bortion is not, as Ms. [Naomi] Wolf maintains, ”a necessary evil.” There is nothing at all ”evil” about it for the simple reason that abortion is necessary for women to have control over their lives. The fetus as potential human being should never take priority over the life of the existing human being, the woman.
… I maintain that upholding abortion on demand and without apology is profoundly moral because it puts women first.”
From an African American abortion clinic escort who is a “faith leader in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church”
“Every Friday, a group of people gathers outside the Planned Parenthood clinic where I volunteer, holding signs that shame the women who visit with slogans like “Your mother kept you” and pictures of babies that say “I want to live.” These signs and their presence may seem peaceful because the protesters don’t (typically) threaten or physically assault visitors. But their very presence is violent, their words often cruel, and their motives are to intimidate and scare away people seeking health care.
When I was at the clinic last month, the protesters were mostly Black and from one church in Raleigh. They held signs that said “Fetus lives matter” and “The most dangerous place for a Black child is in the womb.”
As a Black woman, seeing those signs made me angry. They make it seem as if Black women do not make our own decisions, that we are simply pawns in America’s racist society….
The leader of the protesters targeted me toward the end of their demonstration. I was one of two Black women volunteering as clinic greeters. He said, “I want to talk to the young sister over there. You are on the wrong side with those White people.” Then, addressing the police officer standing near me, he said, “We respect the cops. Blue lives matter.”
Of course, he couldn’t tell that I too am a Christian, and a minister… I didn’t need to look like a faith leader to demonstrate my faith. I am a clinic greeter because of my faith, which teaches me how important it is to provide care for my community. For me, that means ensuring that women have safe access to their health care facilities.
Ironically, at the clinic, I am not only under threat of violence from shooters — I am also threatened by discrimination from the faith communities to which I belong.
“Every child has a right to be born loved and wanted. And a woman who decides that this is not the moment when she can provide that for a child is making, to me, a profoundly moral decision.”
A pro-choice woman who had 2 abortions said the following:
“We must go on with our heads held high. During the April ’89 March for Women’s Lives, I felt real strong, real sure in my beliefs, I felt wonderful. I looked at those anti people and they were missing the point, they were ignorant, they were not as compassionate as we were, as human, they were so blinded… Women have choices in life and women cannot keep bringing children into the world that are going to starve and be a drain on the system or turn them into alcoholics. It’s just not fair to the child…. Children are too special.”
Patricia Launneborg Abortion: A Positive Decision (New York: Bergin & Garvey, 1992) 63
Apparently, pro-lifers are not as compassionate as prochoicers because they want to protect women and children from abortion. according to this pro-choicer, babies deserve abortion because they are too “special” to be allowed to live if circumstances are less than perfect. I wonder if this child could talk, would be be grateful to the ‘compassionate” prochoiers who did this to him?
