They said it.
Francis Kissling, head of Catholics for Choice, says the following:
“I’ve thought about the morality of this ad nauseam for 35 years and come to the conclusion that making the choice [to have an abortion] can be a profoundly morally correct decision. It can be morally incorrect too, but so can having a baby.”
REBECCA TRAISTER “Morality play” Salon February 9, 2005
The Guardian ran a letter from a 25-year-old man who spoke about his partners abortion:
“I was in a relationship with an amazing woman for two of the happiest years of my life. Then we had an unplanned pregnancy. We decided to have the child together; I have a good job and I could have supported us both, and we loved each other.
Then she decided she wasn’t ready for the whole situation, almost three months into the pregnancy…. Personally, I’m against the idea of abortion – I was raised as a strict Catholic – but I always conceded it was a woman’s prerogative. …I was against the abortion but I loved my girlfriend and supported her….
Three months after the operation, we broke up, and I haven’t been able to sustain a relationship since. It has been almost a year. I have no problems attracting women but I just can’t bring myself to start a new relationship. I’m starting to worry whether it’s something I just won’t be able to get over before it’s too late.”
“My girlfriend had an abortion and we split up, but I can’t move on” The Guardian December 5, 2014
Share on FacebookOne person wrote about their conversion from pro-choice to pro-life. They had seen pictures of aborted babies on the Priests for Life website. This is the message:
“The saying a picture is worth a thousand words is true. I cannot tell you, or you probably already know how I feel. About 2 weeks ago I was pro-choice. Now two weeks later after visiting this website and liberty ministries, and reading the story of Roe vs. Wade, I am now PRO-LIFE.”
Pro-choice to Pro-life: Comments From Our Visitors Regarding the Graphic Photos of Abortion on our Website Priests for Life
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Share on FacebookFrom the sibling of an aborted baby:
“As a child, I can remember feeling like someone was missing from my family. During my teen years, I pushed those thoughts away because it seemed not true or possible. Six years ago, when I learned my mom had an abortion four years before I was born, suddenly everything that didn’t make sense to me came into focus.”
Anna Reynolds “Abortion affects sibling survivors: ‘I miss them although I never knew them’ Live Action News March 16, 2018
Share on FacebookAbortionist William J. Sweeney III, MD comments on the medical difficulty of abortion:
“The first reason I don’t like abortions is technical: it’s such a blind procedure. You can’t see what you’re doing, and you can’t really feel what you’re doing. Abortion is certainly not the simple, obvious process people have been led to believe.”
He recalls a conversation with a colleague who also did abortions. The other doctor says:
“My wife said to me the other night, “It’s just like a D&C, isn’t it?” So I told her, “Hell, no.”
“Hell, no” is right,” I replied. As interns we did D&Cs, where we dilate the cervix and scrape the lining of the uterus. But a nonpregnant uterus is a rather firm organ. Put a curette inside and at least you can feel the uterine walls. A pregnant uterus on which you perform an abortion is soft. You can’t feel the top of it. It’s like curetting a cloud. You could perforate that uterus without ever knowing it and then have to go back and operate abdominally to repair the damage you might have done.”
William J. Sweeney III, MD, Barbara Lang Stern Woman’s Doctor: A Year in the Life of an Obstetrician-Gynecologist (New York: Morrow & Company, 1973) 204, 205
Share on FacebookPsychologist Wanda Franz, PhD, testifying before Congress on March 16, 1989:
“Women who report negative aftereffects from abortion know exactly what their problem is… They report horrible nightmares of children calling to them from trash cans, of body parts, and blood. When they are reminded of the abortion, the women reexperienced it with terrible psychological pain… They feel worthless and victimized because they failed at the most natural of human activities – the role of being a mother.”
National Right to Life Educational Trust Fund “Abortion: Some Medical Facts” Washington DC NRLETF, 1989, 5
Share on FacebookAmicus brief submitted to the Supreme Court before Roe V Wade, submitted on October 1971 by a group of 220 physicians, scientists, and professors:
“In its seventh week [the preborn child] bears the familiar external features and all the internal organs of the adult… The brain in configuration is already like the adult brain and sends out impulses that coordinate the functions of other organs… The heart beats sturdily. The stomach produces digestive juices. The liver manufactures blood cells and the kidneys begin to function by extracting uric acid from the child’s blood… The muscles of the arms and body can already be set in motion. After the eighth week…everything is already present that will be found in the full-term baby.”
Motion filed in the Supreme Court of the United States, October 15, 1971 these re-: no. 70 – 18 and no. 70 – 40) Motion and Brief Amicus Curiae of Certain Physicians, Professionals and fellows of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Support of Appellees, Dennis J Horan et al., United States District Court 1971, P 19, 29 – 30
On the Priests for Life website, people post reactions to the graphic photos the site shows. One woman became pro-life after seeing photos of first trimester aborted babies. She says:
“I have always believed that an early abortion was just removing a mass of tissue. I realized after looking at this site I have been so wrong. Thank you for showing this to help people understand innocent children are being killed no matter how early the procedure is done. I will share this information with everyone I know. – Julie”
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Share on FacebookPro-abortion attorney Sarah Weddington, who successfully argued Roe vs. Wade before the Supreme Court, says in her book that the pro-choice movement had nothing powerful enough to counter the pictures of aborted babies that pro-life activists show:
“Pro-choice groups such as NARAL worried about the tactics of the opposition; according to one NARAL mailing, “Rational arguments have limited impact against the opposition’s emotional frenzy.
It is time to meet shock with shock.” But advocates of choice never came up with symbols as powerful as the opposition’s.”
Sarah Weddington A Question of Choice (New York: The Feminist Press, 2013 ed.) 192
She is really saying that the emotional impact of pictures of aborted babies is powerful and hard for pro-choicers to argue against.
Although pro-choicers claim they are using “rational arguments” all the rational-sounding, euphemistic words that pro-choicers use to deny the true nature of abortion are ineffective against the reality shown in the photos.
Pro-choicers have no visual aides as striking as what pro-lifers can show. They have no good visual rebuttal to the photos and can only accuse people who show them of engaging in an “emotional frenzy.”
Share on FacebookHere are some of Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary’s definitions of words pertaining to pregnancy and preborn children.
Embryo:
“The early or developing stage of any organism, especially the developing product of fertilization of the egg. In the human, the embryo is the developing individual from one week after conception to the end of the second month.”
Fetus:
“The unborn offspring of any viviparous animal; the developing young in the human uterus after the end of the second month.”
Zygote:
“1. The cell resulting from the fusion of two gametes; the fertilized ovum.
2. The individual developing from a cell formed by the union of two gametes.”
Gamete:
“Either of the two mature cells (ovum or sperm) which, when they unite, form a zygote which is a new individual.”
Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary (24th edition, 1965) 478 – 479, 547
This textbook was popular around the time of Roe V Wade. Pro-Life author William M Connolly wrote:
“Why didn’t the Supreme Court quote these definitions from Dorland’s work which made clear that from the moment of conception, a developing individual exists? The Supreme Court repeatedly quoted Dorland’s in Roe v. Wade.”
William M Connolly One Life: How the US Supreme Court Deliberately Distorted the History, Science and Law of Abortion (Xlibris, 2002) 401
