The following interview is excerpted from a film produced by The Alan Guttmacher Institute, which was then affiliated with Planned Parenthood. It is an interview with Canadian late-term abortionist Dr. Henry Morgentaler. There are pictures of abortions similar to the ones done by Morgentaler in his long career. The pictures are there to show the irony of the abortionists words.
Interviewer: You have been talking very logically and very calmly, but are there times when you lose your temper at this situation?
Morgentaler: Yeah, there are times when I lose my temper when, uh, I get really, um, indignant about the kind of contempt for human life that the other side shows. The kind of intolerance and dogmatism. Where, they want to impose their kind of so-called morality on everybody. And I think this is one issue where I feel very strongly about it, on our side we have all the light, on the other side they have all the darkness. On our side you have respect for individual rights. You have the concern for the safety, the health and life of people. You have respect for freedom of religion and conscience. Whereas on the other side you have a dogmatic kind of beliefs which does not take into account either the health or the safety of people involved, [the pro-life side] has a contempt for the health and life of women needing abortions. Has a complete disregard for the opinions of others…..
We live in a pluralist society. Let everyone decide on this issue as a matter of his conscience, his religious beliefs. Of his or her philosophy of life. And I get very upset when people show this kind of fanaticism, this kind of intolerance, and this kind of insulting contempt for others, of the rights of others.
Interviewer: Now, there are a group in Canada called the right to lifers. Have they, uh, been in contact with you in any way?
Morgentaler: yes, they’ve tried to make my life as miserable as possible. By the way we don’t call the pro-lifers, we call them CCPs, and that stands for Crusaders for Compulsive Pregnancy. Or we call them fetus fetishists because that’s a very good description of what they’re standing for. We are actuallythe people who are pro-life, we are for the right of women and couples to determine what their life is going to be like. Whether they’re going to have children or not, how many children they’re gonna have. Whether they should use birth control methods or not. Now, the so-called CCP’s have done everything they could, they have, uh, written circular letters denouncing me, vilifying me, they of organized demonstrations outside my clinic, which lasted for about two weeks, with, uh, gory signs –
Interviewer: What sort of signs?
Morgentaler: Signs saying here Morgentaler is murdering babies, and every abortion kills a child, things like that, which were very distasteful to me and to my staff, and which were very stressful to my patients. For most patients who come in for an abortion are scared, they are anxious, and on top of that they were met by a hostile group, with signs, telling them as a group that what they were doing was a crime, murder, and so on. So it was a really bad scene at the time.
You can see the video here. At the end of the video a pro-life group has spliced pictures and videos of abortions.
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