Category: Rhetoric Vs. Reality

Beverly Wildung Harrison, professor of Christian ethics at the Union Theological Seminary:

“Presidents, members of Congress, and other leaders have made life or death decisions that resulted in thousands of deaths. Some of these decisions – such as the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – are justified by many Americans, even if many deaths occurred. Other decisions were clearly mistakes. In 1988 a U.S. Navy officer in the Persian Gulf fired a missile into civilian airliner, killing 290 people, including 66 children. Somehow we can tolerate our leaders making life or death decisions affecting many lives when they are faced with difficult situations such as international aggression. We find understanding and empathy for them if they make a mistake – even if their decision brings death to other human beings, yet we don’t want to let a woman make a decision affecting only her own life and the life within her.”

Anne Eggebroten, ed Abortion: My Choice, God’s Grace (Pasadena, California: New Paradigm Books, 1994) 222

See what this baby would look like after an abortion

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Prochoicer Eileen McDonagh:

“Some might suggest that the solution to coercive pregnancy is simply for the woman to wait until the fetus is born, at which point its coercive imposition of pregnancy will cease. This type of reasoning is akin to suggesting that a woman being raped should wait until the rape is over rather than stopping the rapist…. the fetus is not innocent but instead aggressively intrudes on a woman’s body so massively that deadly force is justified to stop it.”

She acknowledges:

“Few people are going to be comfortable with the idea.”

Eileen L. McDonagh, Breaking the Abortion Deadlock: From Choice to Consent (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 7, 11–12, 192.

Is this a rapist?

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“Women who have abortions are good women. Abortion, when desired by a woman, is a good procedure. Abortion itself holds no moral weigh except in the context of its usage. Therefore, in order to change to stories in our heads we must resist forces that tell us that abortion as a procedure is bad, shameful, or not to be supported…Each and every one of us needs to stop apologizing for abortion. ”

Katie Stack “Eliminating Abortion Stigma: Playing Offense Starts With You” RH Reality Check June 14, 2012

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Melaney Linton, who was chosen to oversee Planned Parenthood Gulf coast, on his “sacred duty” to promote abortion:

“I am honored and humbled to be entrusted with such a sacred duty…I pledge to do everything in my power to fight back against the ideological attacks on Planned Parenthood and women, so that no teen will ever say she didn’t know how she got pregnant, no one will ever be denied basic reproductive health care, and no woman will ever be forced to bear children she cannot adequately support.”

As of 2012, Linton managed 13 abortion and abortion-referring centers in Southeast Texas and Louisiana, as well as the largest abortion clinic in America, located in Houston, Texas.

LifeNews adds:

Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast alone performed over 12,000 abortions in 2010 and banked over $17 million – 49 percent of which came from taxpayer dollars. Linton will succeed Peter Durkin, who earned over $200,000 in 2010 by performing this “sacred duty.

Sarah Crawford “New Head of Biggest Planned Parenthood Says Abortion Sacred” LifeNews 2/9/12

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“Why isn’t it murder to destroy a sperm or egg?”

Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, “Is It Possible to Be Pro-Life and Pro-Choice?” Parade, April 22, 1990, 4

Carl Sagan may be a scientist, but he is obviously not a geneticist or embryologist. Science teaches that life begins at conception – when the DNA from the mother and the father combined to form a unique, genetically distinct organism, which is a human being in an early stage of development.

Read quotes from medical textbooks affirming that life begins at conception here

Also, abortion kills an embryo or fetus, not a sperm or egg cell. By just 21 days after conception, the developing baby has a heartbeat. Very few abortions are done before this time.

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LifeNews covers how Melissa Harris-Perry of MSNBC mocked unborn babies by deliberately breaking a model of a fertilized egg and acting as though unformed fertilized eggs were what was destroyed in abortion. She said:

“Oh, no. That might be bad. I seemed to have popped open the fertilized egg. We’ll put that back together. But the very idea that this would constitute a person, right? And that some set of constitutional rights should come to this.  Look, I get that that is a particular kind of faith claim. It’s not associated with science. But the reality is that if this turns into a person, right, there are economic consequences, right? The cost to raise a child, $10,000 a year up to $20,000 a year. When you’re talking about what it actually costs to have this thing turn into a human, why not allow women to make the best choices that we can with as many resources and options instead of trying to come in and regulate this process?”

Steven Ertelt  “MSNBC Talking Head Calls Babies “Things That Might Turn Into Humans” LifeNews 3/25/13

In reality, it is babies like the one below that are being aborted. The baby in the picture is a weeks old. The 2nd picture shows what a baby this age looks like after an abortion. The typical abortion is done around this age.

Also, even if babies were being aborted when they were still in the state of being fertilized eggs, life would still be taken by abortion. Science teaches that life begins at conception.

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