Adoption is often portrayed negatively in pro-choice literature. Pro-choice advocates Carole Anderson and Lee Campbell say of adoption,
“The unnecessary separation of mothers and children is a cruel, but regrettably usual, punishment that can last a lifetime.”
Cited by Charmaine Yoest, “Why Is Adoption So Difficult?” Focus on the Family Citizen, 17 December 1990, 10. Quoted by Randy Alcorn.
If adoption is “cruel”and a “punishment” then what is abortion? Abortion result of the tearing apart of an unborn baby like the one below. The picture underneath is that of a child aborted at the same age. We can see clearly that abortion is in fact cruel punishment, not adoption which gives the baby is chance at life and a childless couple or individual a chance to fulfill their dream of becoming parents.
Kay Bellevue, who started an abortion clinic in Fargo:
Sonogram of unborn baby at 12 weeks
“I have always acted on what to me are Judeo-Christian principles. The 10 Commandments plus love thy neighbor.… It’s very distressing to me that [people,] particularly the people opposed to abortion, will attempt to say their moral beliefs are the only correct ones… I think pro-choice people have a very strong basis in theology for the caring, loving perspective they have on abortion as do the antiabortion people have a basis in theology for their strong, loving caring perspective about the fetus.”
Quoted in Faye D Ginsburg Contested Lives: the Abortion Debate in an American Community (Berkeley and Los Angeles California: University of California Press, 1989) 151
You saw a picture of a baby in the womb at 12 weeks captured on sonogram. Below is a picture of what happens to a baby this age when “loving, caring” abortion providers do their work:
From a clinic worker who is a blogger on The Abortioneers, who uses a pseudonym on the blog:
“A very important change is being able to say the “A” word in public.… You can’t just blurt it out in public. But now that I’m confident that I love abortion and will do whatever to defend it, I have no problem… “
Sarah Erdreich Generation Roe: inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2013) 174
In April of 2013, a group of TFP (Society for Tradition, Family, and Property) Student Activists staged a protest outside the courtroom where Doctor Kermit Gosnell was being tried for infanticide after killing babies born alive after abortions (he was later convicted)
One passerby tried to justify Gosnells actions:
Pro-abortion woman: “It’s not murder.”
Referring to pregnant mothers, she said: “There’s nothing there until there’s love.”
TFP volunteer: “If it’s not murder, then what is it?”
Pro-abortion woman: “It’s like you’re weeding your garden.”
TFP: “Really? Do you kill the weeds?”
Pro-abortion woman: “You have to love. There’s not life until there’s love.”
“And they need to know that the reason I continue to go to work every day is that I love the work I do, that there is nothing I would rather be doing and that I truly feel there is nothing better I could be doing for the women and families of this country.”
Physicians for Reproductive Health “Why I Provide Abortions”
“I don’t particularly like babies. They are loud and smelly and, above all other things, demanding. No matter how much free day care you throw at women, babies are still time-sucking monsters with their constant neediness. ….
aboted at 15 weeks
No matter how flexible you make my work schedule, my entire life would be overturned by a baby. I like my life how it is, with my ability to do what I want when I want without having to arrange for a babysitter. I like being able to watch True Detective right now and not wait until baby is in bed. I like sex in any room of the house I please. I don’t want a baby. I’ve heard your pro-baby arguments. Glad those work for you, but they are unconvincing to me. Nothing will make me want a baby.”
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aborted at 10 weeks
“Adoption? Fuck you, seriously. I am not turning my body over for nine months of gaining weight and puking and being tired and suffering and not being able to sleep on my side and going to the hospital for a bout of misery and pain so that some couple I don’t know and probably don’t even like can have a baby. I don’t owe that couple a free couch to sleep on while they come to my city to check out the local orphans, so I sure as shit don’t own them my body. I like drinking alcohol and eating soft cheese. I like not having a giant growth protruding out of my stomach. I hate hospitals and like not having stretch marks.”
aborted at 11 weeks
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This is why, if my birth control fails, I am totally having an abortion. Given the choice between living my life how I please and having my body within my control and the fate of a lentil-sized, brainless embryo that has half a chance of dying on its own anyway, I choose me.
Postabortion women and pro-choice activist Sue Nathanson regrets her abortion – but she does not seem to regret the death of her unborn baby, but rather the way her child was killed, or as she says it, “sacrificed.” She would rather have had her child killed at home than in a clinic – that is what she says it this truly bizarre quote, in which she seems to be saying that she wishes she could’ve killed the baby herself, with her “own hands”:
“I wish now that my fourth child could have been sacrificed with my love and tears, even with my own hands, in a circle of a family or community of women, in a circle of a compassionate and loving community of men and women who might be able to perceive my vulnerability as a mirror of their own, and not as it was, in a cold and lonely hospital room with instruments of steel.”
Sue Nathanson Soul Crisis (New York: New American Library, 1989) 217 – 218
Image of an unborn baby at 10 weeks – would it be “love” to kill him?Typical remains from an abortion at this stageShare on Facebook
One passerby tried to justify Gosnells actions:
