They said it.
“Having looked at the facts, uncomfortable as they are, you have to make up your own mind as to which life takes priority. That decision is a moral one, that only you can make.”
Pro-choice filmmaker Julia Black
ABC.net: Religion and Ethics:12-28-2005
She admits that there are two lives involved in an abortion.
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“I think abortion belongs in the same context as assisted suicide, euthanasia, even war and domestic self-defense – all situations that require the taking of life with moral, ethical knowledge and acceptance of responsibility.”
Pro-choice activist Judith Arcana
“Feminist politics and abortion in the US” Psychology and Reproductive Choice
Share on FacebookLifelong pro-choice activist Gloria Steinem:
“How can [the law] differentially apply to two people who may be legally separate, but who actually inhabit the same body?”
Gloria Steinem “A Basic Human Right” Ms. August 1989 P 40
Quoted in F LaGard Smith When Choice Becomes God (Eugene, Oregon: Harvest House Publishers, 1990)
She knew there was a baby’s life involved.
Share on FacebookPro-Choice geneticist Ashley Montague, then Professor at Harvard and Rutgers:
“The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but at conception.”
Ashley Montague, Life Before Birth (New York: Signet Books, 1977), vi.
Read more quotes from pro-choice activists admitting this here.
Share on FacebookPro-choice and pro-euthanasia advocate Jim Taylor says that abortion is “murder” but he still thinks it’s wrong to prevent a woman from having one:
“I would consider prohibiting a woman from having an abortion, and forcing a woman to have one, to be equally wrong.
Some local agencies have accused me of being pro-abortion. I’m not. I’m opposed to abortion. I consider it a form of murder. Or of euthanasia, at the other end of life. I would not counsel any woman to terminate a pregnancy by having an abortion.
At the same time, I would not condemn any woman for having had an abortion. Because I cannot, and should not, make that choice for her.”
Jim Taylor “Fundamental right to choose” The Daily Courier January 11, 2015
More and more pro-choicers are saying that yes, abortion is “murder” or “killing” a “baby” (or “life” or “human life”), but that abortion still should not be illegal and that woman have a right to kill their offspring.
Read more statements for pro-choicers admitting that each abortion is killing here.
“I cannot tell you how beautifully you explain my feelings on this matter. I had an abortion in March, at the age of 32. I’m perfectly at peace with what I did, that it wasn’t the right time for us BUT I am also aware that it was a baby. It was completely a matter of competing needs- and the ones of my life, and my relationship, won out.”
Pro-choice website “Greta” June 28, 2005
“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.”
Pro-choicer and former president of Catholics for Free Choice Frances Kissling
From Time magazine
Quoted in Doug Bandow “Roe V Wade: Four Decades of Tragedy” American Spectator, January 15, 2013
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“Mostly, this must seem selfish, when I had an abortion a decade ago, I knew I was killing. There was no other way to think about it, to describe it… But I was killing a very small piece of life in favor of my bigger life. That’s important, it makes you get your priorities straight.”
Rayna Rapp Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America (New York: Routledge, 1999) 137
Share on FacebookThe pro-choice author of Abortion: A Positive Decision interviewed abortion providers and postabortion women talking about how great abortion is, and how helpful to women. However, in the beginning of the book, she says:
“No matter that legal abortion is as safe a procedure as having your tonsils out or a penicillin injection or wisdom tooth extracted. It is far more than a safe medical procedure because of the complicated decision-making that is involved, and the fact that it has to do with sex and life and death.”
Patricia Launneborg Abortion: a Positive Decision (New York: Bergin & Garvey, 1992) 3 – 4
Whose life and whose death? Throughout the book, Launneborg presents abortion in the most positive terms possible, but she admits that she knows that abortion is a life-and-death issue, that abortion, ultimately, destroys a life – kills a child.
Other pro-choice activists have said the same thing.
And is abortion really safer than a wisdom tooth extraction? Women who died from legal abortions or suffered complications would disagree
Share on FacebookFrom pro-life writer Randy Alcorn:
“A radio talk show host told me she was offended that some people called her “pro-abortion” instead of “pro-choice.” I asked her, on the air, “Why don’t you want to be called pro-abortion? Is there something wrong with abortion?” She responded, “Abortion is tough. It’s not like anybody really wants one.” I said, “I don’t get it. What makes it tough? Why wouldn’t someone want an abortion?” She said, suddenly impassioned, “Well, you know, it’s a tough thing to kill your baby!”
The second she said it, she caught herself, but it was too late. In an unguarded moment she’d revealed what she knew, what everyone knows if they’ll only admit it: Abortion is difficult for the same reason it’s wrong—because it’s killing a child.
Randy Alcorn Why Pro-Life? Caring for the Unborn and Their Mothers (Hendrickson Publishers, 2011) 95
