“I support Roe versus Wade wholeheartedly. And I do so even when acknowledging to myself that at some point, perhaps even after the first trimester, abortion becomes infanticide…”
Former New York Mayor Ed Koch
Robert P. Casey Fighting For Life (Dallas, TX: Word Publishing, 1996) 250
Frances Kissling, President and CEO, Catholics for a Free Choice:
“I agree that the way in which the arguments for legal abortion have been made include this inability to publicly deal with the fact that abortion takes a life.”
“There clearly is no logical or moral distinction between a fetus and a young baby; free availability of abortion cannot be reasonably distinguished from euthanasia. Nevertheless we are for it. It is too facile to say that human life is always sacred; obviously it is not.”
“The Unborn and the Born Again” editorial, New Republic, July 2, 1977, 6
“Although I have always marched and campaigned for a woman’s right to choose… when it came to deciding to end a pregnancy, I was shocked by the distress and confusion I felt. I did not like having to take personal responsibility for ending a life.”
James D Slack Abortion, Execution, and the Consequences of Taking Life (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2009) page 61
This pro-choice activist clearly knows that abortion is taking the life of a baby. She seemed to know this intuitively, even when she was campaigning for abortion rights.
Pro-Choice author Roger Rosenblatt said, in his book on abortion called Life Itself:
“I would be perfectly willing to concede that life begins at conception, yet I would still advocate a system in which the killing of an unborn child is preferable to forcing an unwilling mother to give birth.”
Roger Rosenblatt. Life Itself: Abortion in the American Mind (New York: Random House, 1992) 10
Is it better to kill this ten week old unborn baby or “force” the mother (who 99% of the time chose the act that created the child) to have her baby?
This is what her ten week old baby would look like if she made the choice to abort. This is what the author is advocating:
“I’d have a much easier time aborting a single baby or both twins than doing a reduction. When you reduce, the remaining twin will remain a persistent reminder of the unborn child. I think that, more than anything would make killing that fetus feel like killing another human, even though it wasn’t fully developed. It would feel that way because you would have a living copy of the person you killed.”’
Comment from pro-choice reader. She is well aware that abortion is killing an unborn baby. “The Complicated Ethics of Twin Reduction” Jezebel, Aug 12, 2011
Kirsten Moore
Center for American Progress
Politics of Choice, Newsweek: 2-27-2006
“Women who are thinking about ending a pregnancy are not asking, ‘Is this a life?’ They know that it is. They are asking, ‘Can I take care of this baby?’
“Even though it kills a human life, abortion is, in fact, the moral choice to make when would-be mothers ascertain that their pregnant circumstances do not enable them to raise a would-be child responsibly. Contrary to popular accusation, it is not the decision to abort but the decision to have a child that is treated with insufficient gravity in our society.”
“I don’t actually think it is in the interests of feminism or the pro-choice movement to cling so rigidly to outdated notions of “life.” It no longer helps our cause to try to argue that the fetus is not “life.” The reason for this, as people have noted, is that technological advances, like sonograms, where you can see feet on a fetus in the first trimester, have made those claims clearly and patently hollow to even ardently pro-choice people who have seen the black and white staticky fuzziness take shape into human form. How can we possibly claim that the moving creature, with feet and toes that we can see, is not “life”?
Katie Roiphe “Preglimony and Pro-Choice Rhetoric” Slate July 10, 2012
Frances Kissling, President and CEO, Catholics for a Free Choice:
