They said it.
Pro-choicer Kathleen Quinn:
“Even though it kills a human life, abortion is, in fact, the moral choice to make when would-be mothers ascertain that their present circumstances do not enable them to raise a would-be child responsibly.”
Kathleen Quinn, Mother Jones, November/December 1993
Quoted in Tamara A. Roleff Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints (San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1997) 25
Ann Furedi comments on late-term abortions and women’s reluctance to get them:
“Many women, who would have few qualms about opting for a pregnancy to be terminated in its early weeks, balk at the thought of ending a life they have felt move inside them.”
Ann Furedi “A Moral Defense of Late Abortion” Spiked December 20, 2010
Ann Furedi runs the largest chain of abortion clinics in Great Britain
she mentions that abortion is “ending a life.”
Share on FacebookFrom a pro-choice activist:
“Here’s the complicated reality in which we live: All life is not equal. That’s a difficult thing for liberals like me to talk about, lest we wind up looking like death-panel-loving, kill-your-grandma-and-your-precious-baby storm troopers. Yet a fetus can be a human life without having the same rights as the woman in whose body it resides. She’s the boss. Her life and what is right for her circumstances and her health should automatically trump the rights of the non-autonomous entity inside of her. Always.
When we on the pro-choice side get cagey around the life question, it makes us illogically contradictory. I have friends who have referred to their abortions in terms of “scraping out a bunch of cells” and then a few years later were exultant over the pregnancies that they unhesitatingly described in terms of “the baby” and “this kid.” I know women who have been relieved at their abortions and grieved over their miscarriages. Why can’t we agree that how they felt about their pregnancies was vastly different, but that it’s pretty silly to pretend that what was growing inside of them wasn’t the same? Fetuses aren’t selective like that. They don’t qualify as human life only if they’re intended to be born….
It seems absurd to suggest that the only thing that makes us fully human is the short ride out of some lady’s vagina. That distinction may apply neatly legally, but philosophically, surely we can do better. Instead, we let right-wingers perpetuate the sentimental fiction that no one with a heart — and certainly no one who’s experienced the wondrous miracle of family life — can possibly resist tiny fingers and tiny toes growing inside a woman’s body…
If by some random fluke I learned today I was pregnant, you bet your ass I’d have an abortion. I’d have the World’s Greatest Abortion.”
Mary Elizabeth Williams “So What If Abortion Ends Life?” Salon January 23, 2013
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Kate Michelman , once Pres. of NARAL, one of the biggest pro-abortion groups in the country, had an abortion early in her life, before she came out of the abortion to be. She says:
“When I did squarely confront abortion as a possibility, it was a very difficult decision…I had to weigh the responsibility I felt for the developing life within me against the moral, maternal, and practical responsibilities of my daughters’ wellbeing. Religious beliefs mingled with the only complete point of clarity in my thinking: It would be impossible to have another child. While the decision was difficult, in the end, the choice was clear.”
Kate Michelman Protecting the Right to Choose (New York: Plume, 2007) 4
She calls the baby she aborted “the developing life.” This was written long after the actual abortion, showing that she knew that abortion kills babies while she was president of the pro-abortion group.
Peter Singer, abortion and infanticide advocate, admits human life begins at conception:
“It is possible to give ‘human being’ a precise meaning. We can use it as equivalent to ‘member of the species Homo sapiens’. Whether a being is a member of a given species is something that can be determined scientifically, by an examination of the nature of the chromosomes in the cells of living organisms. In this sense there is no doubt that from the first moments of its existence an embryo conceived from human sperm and eggs is a human being.”
Peter Singer, Practical Ethics, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, 2008), 85-86.
Share on Facebook“Clinging to a rhetoric about abortion in which there is no life and no death, we entangle our beliefs in a series of self-delusions, fibs and evasions. And we risk becoming precisely what our critics charge us with being: callous, selfish and casually destructive men and women who share a cheapened view of human life…we need to contextualize the fight to defend abortion rights within a moral framework that admits that the death of a fetus is a real death.”
Pro-Choice feminist Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf, “Our Bodies, Our Souls,” The New Republic, October 16, 1995, 26.
Share on FacebookFrances Kissling, president of Catholics for Choice:
“When people hear us say abortion is just another medical procedure, they react with shock. Abortion is not like having your tooth pulled or having your appendix out. It involves the termination of an early form of human life. That deserves some gravitas.”
Quoted in Kate Pickert “What Choice?” Time Jan. 14, 2013
Share on Facebook“[T]he location of the baby inside or outside the womb cannot make such a crucial moral difference” and that to be consistent, there are only two possibilities, namely, “oppose abortion, or allow infanticide.”
Princeton professor Peter Singer, who supports both abortion and infanticide.
Peter Singer and Helga Kuhse “On Letting Handicapped Infants Die” The Right Thing to Do, James Rachels, Editor (New York: Random House, 1989) 146
Share on FacebookA pro-choice writer in Salon admits that abortion ends a human life:
“When we on the pro-choice side get cagey around the life question, it makes us illogically contradictory. I have friends who have referred to their abortions in terms of “scraping out a bunch of cells” and then a few years later were exultant over the pregnancies that they unhesitatingly described in terms of “the baby” and “this kid.” I know women who have been relieved at their abortions and grieved over their miscarriages. Why can’t we agree that how they felt about their pregnancies was vastly different, but that it’s pretty silly to pretend that what was growing inside of them wasn’t the same? Fetuses aren’t selective like that. They don’t qualify as human life only if they’re intended to be born.”
MARY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS “So what if abortion ends life?” Salon JAN 23, 2013
Yet she still supports killing those fetuses.
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Pro-Abortion author Katie Roiphe admits that abortion kills a life, and people know it:
“The idea that “life begins at birth” is useful politically, but as many have pointed out, in the age of sonograms, of cloudy little hands and feet coming into focus at nine weeks, how many people actually believe it?
Our language betrays our desire. A cluster of cells that is wanted is a “baby,” and one that is unwanted is a “fetus.” One never hears excited parents-to-be referring to the “fetus”; the leap of imagination from fetus to baby is so ordinary, so automatic, so universal that we cannot pretend, even in the realm of political expediency, that it is not so. We can’t try to argue that some clusters of cells are not “life” if we are, say, busy calling our own cluster of cells a baby….
Let’s imagine a scenario in which we admit that abortions may involve an obliteration of something that could legitimately be called life but that they are done to protect something that could also be called life. Planned Parenthood is, after all, in the business of protecting women’s lives, their futures, their ability to pursue education, to establish security, to have homes filled with future children, and their freedom to decide how best to use their short time on earth.”
Katie Roiphe “Good Riddance, “Pro-Choice” Slate JAN. 16 2013
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