They said it.
Pro-life feminist Frederica Mathewes-Green wrote:
“Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.”
Frederica Mathewes-Green “Abortion: Women’s Rights and Wrongs” Frederica.com (blog) January 1, 2000
Quoted in Steven A Christie, MD Speaking for the Unborn: 30 Second Pro-Life Rebuttals to Pro-Choice Arguments (Steubenville, Ohio: Emmaus Road Publishing, 2022) 129
Mathewes-Green has interviewed many post-abortive women
Share on FacebookDr. Mildred Jefferson, the first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School and a three-term president of the National Right to Life Committee:
“Abortionists argue, ‘Let the poor have abortions like the rich can.’ Then abortionists should make a list of the other things rich women have that they’re going to give to poor women.”
Deborah Deasy, “MD Says Abortion Hurts Blacks Most.” The Pittsburgh Press, October 24, 1977
Abortionists aren’t really concerned about helping the poor. If they were, they would also help them have and provide for their children.
Share on FacebookJohn Powell, SJ, observed:
“Then I actually began debating abortionists and found that no one ever questioned my assertion that every abortion kills an innocent human being. One doctor whom I debated simply said, “When you solve in some other way all the problems I can solve by abortions, I’ll be on your side.”…
When I realized that the doctors who perform abortions know that they are ending human lives, know that the fetus is not just a blob of protoplasm, I told myself that America is already operating on the principle of pragmatism. We have bought the idea that you can end a human life to solve a problem.”
John Powell “The Silent Holocaust” in Jeff Lane Hensley The Zero People (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Servant Books, 1983) 9
Share on FacebookPro-life authors Terry Schlossberg and Elizabeth Achtemeier wrote:
“We often hear the argument in our society that it is far better for some children to be aborted than to be born into a situation where they are unwanted or where they will be abused and perhaps starved to death.
But the implications of that argument is that we autonomous individuals, who make up our society, will take no responsibility for such children. They are not our problem. They would upset our lifestyle and plans.
They would interfere with our independence and well-being. And so better to kill them in the womb than to let them come forth into light.
As one church woman remarked, “Maybe you want to raise all those unwanted babies. I don’t. That’s why I’m pro-choice.”
When it comes to the question of abortion, our autonomous individualism has turned us all into a nation of independent selves, with no communal obligations and with no responsibilities toward one another.”
Terry Schlossberg and Elizabeth Achtemeier Not My Own: Abortion & the Marks of the Church (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995) 10-11
Share on FacebookFrederica Mathewes-Green wrote:
“There is tremendous sadness, loneliness, in the cry, “A woman’s right to choose.” No one wants an abortion as she wants an ice-cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal, caught in a trap, wants to gnaw off its own leg. Abortion is a tragic attempt to escape a desperate situation by an act of violence and self-loss.”
Writer Frederica Mathewes-Green, “Unplanned Parenthood,” Policy Review, Summer 1991, 28-36.
Share on FacebookDr. Johnny Hunter, African-American pro-lifer and cofounder of L.E.A.R.N.:
“It breaks my heart that when a young man is gunned down by a [police officer], the media runs with it like wildfire. Yet, if an abortionist kills a young black woman and baby, the silence itself is tragic.”
Richard Kaye The Real War on Women (2016) 35
Share on FacebookPro-Life judge Randall J Hekman wrote about a television program he saw:
“Embedded on my mind is a recent TV documentary on abortion in which the viewers actually witness a woman being aborted… We could hear the woman crying as the vacuum pump whirled, sucking her live child out to oblivion.
After the deed was done, the social worker attending the woman asked her if she hurt anymore. The woman’s answer, given with noticeable despondency, spoke volumes. “Not physically,” she said.
The social worker, accurately perceiving that the woman was emotionally aching from what had just happened, said, “It’s all right to feel bad. You’ve just lost something.”
Randall J Hekman Justice for the Unborn (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Servant Books, 1984) 34
Former pro-choice activist Barbara Curtis wrote:
“Twenty–seven years ago, nine black-robed men handed feminists a triumph….
How about it, sisters? Especially those of you who rode the crest of the second wave with me: Did you ever dream that this was where we were headed? Did you ever dream we would call a politician a friend to women no matter how flagrantly he exploited them as long as he continued to back abortion on demand? Did you ever dream we would enter the realms of denial required to condone a procedure in which a perfectly viable infant is pulled feet first through the birth canal until all but her head is exposed, then stabbed in the skull to suck out her brains, delivered dead and sold to the highest bidder for body parts?
That’s “a certain type of late–term procedure,” according to modern feminists, who have twisted themselves like pretzels to pretend the dream did not turn into a nightmare.”
Barbara Curtis “The Sisterhood, 27 Years Later” The Washington Times, January 24, 2000
She is referring to the struggle to ban partial birth abortions, where the abortionist partly delivers the baby before killing him.
These abortions were banned, but late term D&E abortions are just as brutal.
Pro-life author Richard Exley told the following story:
“Some time ago I was speaking to a right to life rally. When I had finished, a young woman came to the front of the auditorium and asked to speak to the audience. Noting her obvious distress, I hesitated before giving her the microphone.
Tearfully she confessed that eight years earlier she had aborted her baby… The father had wanted nothing more to do with the young woman or her unborn child. In shame and desperation she has scheduled a legal and inexpensive abortion.…
Trembling, she told us that on the way to the abortion clinic she had “prayed” that someone would stop her.
“If only one person has asked me not to do it,” she sobbed, “my baby would be alive today.”
“I can’t go back and undo what I’ve done,” she continued. “But I pledge to you, and to God, that I will be there, in front of the abortion clinic, to help some other woman save her baby.”
Listening to her story, I couldn’t help but wonder how many other babies have been killed simply because no one was there.”
Richard Exley Abortion: Pro-Life by Conviction, Pro-Choice by Default (Tulsa, Oklahoma: Honor Books, 1989) 67 – 68
Share on FacebookFeminist Daphne de Jong wrote:
“If women must submit to abortion to preserve their lifestyle or career, their economic or social status, they are pandering to a system devised and run by men for male convenience. Of all the things which are done to women to fit them into a society dominated by men, abortion is the most violent invasion of their physical and psychic integrity. It is a deeper and more destructive assault than rape…”
Mary Meehan “The Left Has Betrayed the Sanctity of Life: Consistency Demands Concern for the Unborn” in Rachael McNair and Stephen Zunes, eds. Consistently Opposing Killing (Bloomington, Indiana: Author’s Choice Press, 2008, 2011) 23
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