They said it.
“Brenda” has a disabled child:
“That’s the bad part: that people can say to you, “You didn’t have the tests?” Or “Why didn’t you have the tests?” You have to justify why you’ve brought a disabled child into the world!”
A Brookes “We’ve Got a Problem!” Women and Prenatal Diagnosis: Difficult Decisions” Doctoral Dissertation, Deakin University, Australia
Quoted in Melinda Tankard Reist Defiant Birth: Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics (North Melbourne, Australia: Spinifex, 2006)
Share on FacebookKaren Stamm, pro-choice activist:
“[W] e must be aware that the [abortion] laws have not been changed for [women’s] benefit, but so the government can have control over the population.”
Karen Stamm “The Master’s Plan” Abortion Task Force Folder, March 1981
Mary Ziegler After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2015) 142
Share on FacebookThis testimony about a woman who had a child conceived in rape can be found in its entirety here.
“I had been raped while under the influence of pain meds and now I’m pregnant. Some kind of sick, cruel joke. I just can’t be. I had just fallen into the category of women I said that was okay to have an abortion. I was raped and carrying his child. I had made no choice in the matter, yet I was stuck.
I wrestled back and forth with abortion or continuing the pregnancy. I had a second test done at a women’s center to confirm the home one. I went on auto pilot mode I guess…I called an OB office to make an appointment.They had me schedule an ultrasound because they were unsure of gestational age. Once I saw the screen and I saw he had already formed into a baby. My mind was made up… I realized all that I couldn’t abort this child inside of me…. I am so glad I didn’t abort my youngest son because of the sin of his father. He has brought so much into my life, the life of my church and others… Life wouldn’t be the same without my precious little man Eli!”
Danielle Kleber
Pennsylvania
From Discover magazine, on research with fetal tissue transfer (research on implanting parts of preborn babies)
“the actual scientific accomplishments [have been] somewhat exaggerated.”
Jeff Goldberg “Fetal Attraction” Discover, July 1995
No significant progress has been made since 1995 either.
Above: xeroxed copy of list of prices for aborted babies’ organs
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“Over the last 20 years, medical technology and scientific research, by way of ultrasonography, fetoscopy, fetal electrocardiograms, and fetal electroencephalograms, have demonstrated the remarkable responsiveness of the human fetus to pain, touch and sound… The majority of babies aborted by this [partial-birth abortion, a late term abortion] procedure are alive and feel pain by the end of the procedure… The fact that anesthesia is now routinely used on preborn children during fetal surgery is an obvious commentary on the unborn child’s capacity to feel pain.”
Sheila Carey–Kuzmic, M.D., F ACOG, Pediatric Specialist, Board certified in Westerly, Rhode Island
Fetal Pain and Partial-Birth Abortion, Physicians Ad Hoc Coalition for Truth
Phoebe Lee Casualties of Indulgence: from Life to Aborted (New York: Writer’s Showcase, 2001) 1231-122
In a partial-birth abortion, the baby was delivered feet first and then her skull was punctured. This was very painful for the baby. Partial-birth abortion is now illegal. Abortions laid in pregnancy are now done by D&E, where the baby is dismembered. This is just as painful for the child, if not more so.
Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood:
“Woman’s passivity under the burden of her disastrous task [to have children] was almost altogether that of ignorant resignation. She knew virtually nothing about her reproductive nature and less about the consequences of her excessive childbearing. It is true that, obeying the inner urge of their natures, some women revolted, they even went to the extreme of infanticide and abortion. Usually, their revolts were not general enough. They fought as individuals, not as a mass. In the mass they sank back into blind and hopeless subjection. They went on breeding with staggering rapidity those numberless, undesired children who became the clogs and the destroyers of civilization.”
Margaret Sanger, Women and the New Race, (New York: Brentano’s, 1920)
Sanger was very anti-child and anti-motherhood.
Share on FacebookAuthor Phoebe Lee tells the following story from a series of interviews she did:
“In one case, a 19-year-old asked a Planned Parenthood counselor for adoption options. According to her, they could not provide her with adoption assistance. The reasons for this are unknown. They told her she could go to the local health department or children’s services to learn about such options, but “her privacy may not be guaranteed.” The girl chose to abort.”
Phoebe Lee Casualties of Indulgence: from Life to Aborted (New York: Writer’s Showcase, 2001) 52
According to the interview, the representative from the Planned Parenthood office in question indicated that most health departments and children’s services offices would not guarantee the anonymity of the birth mother. Research showed this to be untrue.
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Author Ann Saltenberger describes an experience she had while pregnant. She became sick and spent some time in the hospital, where doctors ran a battery of tests including x-rays. She was pregnant at the time, and a doctor told her she should abort her baby. The doctor told her the following when he was driving her home:
“An hour later the green, sundrenched farmlands of South Jersey were slipping past the car windows. I settled back into the plush seat and relaxed. But Dr. L was tense and I soon found out why. “I know you’re the wrong person to say this too,” he began (I had already begun to garner a considerable reputation for my research into the effects of artificial pregnancy termination), “but you really should have an abortion.”
His words had continued, unheard. I tuned in as he was saying something about my probably having a viral affection, and German Measles is a viral infection, “and we all know what German measles does.”
“Yes, but it only does it to 25% of preborns. You’re not going to tell me that part, are you?” I thought, but I said nothing.
He droned on. The x-rays. X-rays do horrible things: twist developing bodies, destroy forming minds. No doubt about it, he was sure this baby would be retarded or deformed. Not worth worrying over. Not worth saving. Rx: abort it and forget it.”
Her baby was born perfectly healthy:
“Now, eight years later, it’s spring again. The sun is shining and the breezes are warm. And Jimmy is seven and healthy and strong, full of fun and questions and tricks. Appearance: beautiful; neurological evaluation: normal; intelligence: superior.”
Ann Saltenberger Every Woman Has a Right to Know the Dangers of Legal Abortion (Glassboro, New Jersey: Air – Plus Enterprises, 1983) 14, 17
Share on FacebookAuthor Hans S Reinders:
“Once the assumption of individual responsibility for the reproduction of “bad genes” is firmly in place, people will be wary of sharing the costs of healthcare services for people with special needs whose existence they believe to be caused by “irresponsible reproductive behavior.”
Hans S Reinders The Future of the Disabled in a Liberal Society: An Ethical Analysis (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2000) 85 – 86, 90
Share on FacebookNancy Press and CH Browner examined a California screening program where babies were tested for genetic defects as part of prenatal care:
“So strong was the presumption in these studies that testing was both good and unproblematic that all issues of informed consent – including whether informed consent was even necessary – were left to the discretion of the investigators at each research site.”
Nancy Press and CH Browner “Why Women Say Yes to Prenatal Diagnosis” Social Science and Medicine 45 (7), 1997, 981
Melinda Tankard Reist commented:
“The studies revealed how the issues of eugenics, disability and abortion were obscured in this “routinization”. This in turn help achieve a high level of test acceptance. There was a “purposeful ignoring” of the connection between prenatal testing and abortion. Nurses rarely mentioned abortion when discussing screening with a couple and the official state booklet on AFP given to all eligible women didn’t even mentioned the word.”
Melinda Tankard Reist Defiant Birth: Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics (North Melbourne, Australia: Spinifex, 2006) 10
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