Category: Pro-Choicers Admit It’s Murder

Gillian, who is pro-choice, when asked how she feels about an athlete who gets pregnant to enhance her performance, then aborts.

In this scenario, the athlete would deliberately become pregnant for the hormonal boost, with the intention of aborting after the athletic event.

[When you abort] “you’re thinking of yourself and you’re thinking about the baby.. It’s not a cold decision.

But getting pregnant in order to kill the baby! Doing it intentionally just doesn’t seem right. Having a baby to kill it, there’s no you in that. You’re just setting out to murder, [to commit] premeditated murder.”

Leslie Cannold The Abortion Myth (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1998) xx

This pro-choicer seems to admit that abortion is the killing of a human being- murder. She excuses abortions on women who are pregnant accidentally but calls it “murder” when the abortion is intended before the pregnancy. What is the difference to the babies?

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Pro-choice author Rene Denfeld says:

“Recently, however, pro-choice supporters have realized that proving the fetus is alive and that abortion kills it does not prove that abortion is wrong.”

Rene Denfeld “Forward” in Leslie Cannold The Abortion Myth (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1998) xvii

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Pro-choice author Karen Kissane:

“Any woman who has felt a baby stir inside her [and] any man who has seen the tiny heart pulsing on an ultrasound screen, knows that abortion is about ending a life.”

Karen Kissane “Abortion Doubts Redefine Debate” The Age October 25, 1995, P 19

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Camille Paglia, a pro-choice activist and writer for Salon, says:

“…I have always frankly admitted that abortion is murder, the extermination of the powerless by the powerful. Liberals for the most part have shrunk from facing the ethical consequences of their embrace of abortion, which results in the annihilation of concrete individuals and not just clumps of insensate tissue. The state in my view has no authority whatever to intervene in the biological processes of any woman’s body, which nature has implanted there before birth and hence before that woman’s entrance into society and citizenship.

On the other hand, I support the death penalty for atrocious crimes (such as rape-murder or the murder of children). I have never understood the standard Democratic combo of support for abortion and yet opposition to the death penalty. Surely it is the guilty rather than the innocent who deserve execution?”

CAMILLE PAGLIA “Fresh blood for the vampire” Salon SEP 10, 2008

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Dr. Thomas Verney  is pro-choice but considers abortion to be the taking of human life. He encourages doctors to tell the truth to their patients:

“I believe the choice to have or not have a child should be left up to the individual woman…but I also think a women must be made fully aware that what is at stake is not a clump of calls but the beginning of human life. If a doctor can spend several minutes explaining how he plans to remove a superfluous organ, such as an appendix, shouldn’t he be willing to give this kind of decision equal time?”

Dr. Thomas Verney  (with John Kelly) The Secret Life of the Unborn Child (Sphere, 1982) in Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 267

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Vivian Wahlberg, a pro-choice author from Sweden, says the following in her book about abortion:

“Often an abortion involves a conflict of an existential as well as ethical nature that can place both the nursing staff and the patient in a dilemma. To protect and save life and to sometimes assist at its very beginning are the ultimate goals of medical practice, and abortion is directly opposed to these goals.”

Vivian Wahlberg Memories After Abortion (Oxford: Radcliffe Publishing, 2007) 19

Although Wahlberg is pro-choice, she is admitting here that abortion is in opposition to saving a life. It is, therefore, taking a life. She knows this even though she supports legal abortion.

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Judith Jarvis Thompson, pro-choice professor at MIT:

“I am inclined to think also that we shall probably have to agree that the fetus has already become a person well before birth. Indeed, it comes as a surprise when one first learns how early in its life it begins to acquire human characteristics. By the tenth week, for example, it already has a face, arms and legs, fingers and toes; it has internal organs, and brain activity is detectable.”

Judith Jarvis Thompson Rights, Restitutions & Risk (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968) 1

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From pro-choice author Miriam Claire:

“Physicians are dedicated to the preservation of life. Abortion presents an inherent conflict because it involves stopping a life from developing.”

Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (New York: Insight Books, 1995) 132

She admits that abortion “stops life from developing.” Claire supports mandatory abortions for women on welfare.

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Pro-Choice author Miriam Claire:

When you choose to have an abortion, you are responsible for a decision to halt the development of a human life. That is the most significant difference between abortion and miscarriage. It is somehow easier to accept “fate” or “the will of nature” then it is to accept responsibility for our actions.”

Miriam Claire The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue (New York: Insight Books, 1995) 1

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From pro-abortion, pro-infanticide professor Peter Singer:

“Yes, we can say, the foetus is a living human being, but that alone is not sufficient to show that it is wrong to end its life. After all, why- in the absence of religious beliefs about being made in the image of God, or having an immortal soul- should mere membership of the species Homo sapiens be crucial to whether the life of a being may or may not be taken?”

Peter Singer, Spectator, Sept 16, 1995

Quoted in Tamara A. Roleff Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints (San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1997) 28

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