They said it.
From pro-abortion Methodist minister John M Swomley:
“Abortions after implantation are of two kinds: one is medically induced by pill, and the other surgically induced, in each case with the request or consent of the woman. Most of us do not believe consensual medical and surgical action is violence.”
John M Swomley Compulsory Pregnancy: The War against American Women (Amherst, New York: Humanist Press, 1999) 81
Below: “Not violence” at 14 weeks
Post abortion father Dr. David Russell:
We’ve all heard the platitudes regarding abortion that are being bandied about the workplace and the schools. “It’s the only choice… It will pass… It will be like nothing ever happened… You can have other children…” You’ve heard them all…
It won’t pass. It will never be like nothing ever happened. Whether we choose to acknowledge it or not, from the moment of conception, we are parents, and on some deep level, we realize it. After abortions, we are the parents of children who died, and carry the burdens of our parts in those deaths. No matter how strongly you may believe that you could forget about that child, I can tell you from experience it doesn’t work that way.
Dr. David Russell Through My Father’s Eyes (Mustang, Oklahoma: Tate Publishing and Enterprises, 2016) 44 – 45
A prolife woman did an experiment. She called Planned Parenthood clinics and asked for information about adoption. This is what she found:
“I contacted six Planned Parenthood offices located in towns or cities with a population of 50,000 or more, all within a 250 mile radius. All gave me similar information. None of the Planned Parenthood representatives in any of these offices could offer me concrete assistance in my adoption request. Each representative told me I could contact children’s services or I could make an appointment to visit their Planned Parenthood office to receive information on all my options. In one city, the representative said if I visited their office and decided on adoption, she would give me a number to call for discussing adoption choices. When I asked for the name and number on the phone, the woman indicated I would have to schedule an appointment, insisting I needed to sit down with someone to review the options.… If Planned Parenthood claims its greatest concern is family planning and ensuring a loving home for all children, then why could they provide the only with the same assistance I could have just as easily found looking in the Yellow Pages?”
Phoebe Lee Casualties of Indulgence: from Life to Aborted (New York: Writer’s Showcase, 2001) 53 – 55
Share on FacebookA pro-choice author (who herself had an abortion) interviewed post-abortion women for a book she wrote. She says:
Hormones cannot explain how, long after the procedure, feelings about one’s abortion can reappear with the slightest stimulation. Many women are distressed to find themselves bursting into tears when some event reminds them of their abortions. One twenty-three-year-old, who had an abortion 2 years ago, describes how disconcerting it can be for strong feelings to crash in at inopportune times. She says, “For 5 months, seeing women with babies really upset me. Sometimes I would cry. Crying when you don’t want to and you’re like “Geez, I wish this didn’t happen here.”
Eve Kushner Experiencing Abortion: A Weaving of Women’s Words (Binghamton, New York: The Haworth Press, 1997) 10
Share on FacebookAnn Furedi comments on late-term abortions and women’s reluctance to get them:
“Many women, who would have few qualms about opting for a pregnancy to be terminated in its early weeks, balk at the thought of ending a life they have felt move inside them.”
Ann Furedi “A Moral Defense of Late Abortion” Spiked December 20, 2010
Ann Furedi runs the largest chain of abortion clinics in Great Britain
she mentions that abortion is “ending a life.”
Share on FacebookAs of this articlewritten in 2012,South Dakota had prolife laws including parental notification, bans on public funding of abortion, and pro-life counseling as well as the longest waiting period (three days) of any state.
“Given the legal environment in South Dakota, it’s not surprising that only 6% of South Dakota women who became pregnant in 2008 aborted – three times lower than the national abortion rate of 19%. That’s just 850 abortions in 2008, representing less than .1% of abortions nationally.”
Daniel Allot “Does Roe Still Matter?” American Spectator, January 25, 2012
Prolife laws save lives
Share on Facebook“The staff in this office does sacred work and though you may hope to never come back, we return each day to hear your stories, hold your hands, and ease your fears. Our lives are consumed with caring for yours. In these walls and in our hearts you are forever valued, treasured, respected and safe.”
Sign in the waiting room of Summit Women’s Center, owned by David Lipton, an abortion clinic in Connecticut
Quoted in Eleanor J Bader “40 Years after Roe V Wade, Getting an Abortion Is Still a Major Challenge” On the Issues, Winter 2013
Read about abortion’s physical and emotional consequences for women.
This is some of the abortion clinics “sacred work” at eight weeks:
and at 10 weeks:
Ann Furedi is the director of the largest chain of abortion clinics in England. Here, she defends late-term abortion:
“We believe that the delivery of an abortion procedure in the second (and even third) trimester is preferable to its denial, since the denial of abortion has consequences for a woman’s life, for the lives that are touched by hers, and for the life of the child that will be born.”
Ann Furedi “A Moral Defense of Late Abortion” Spiked December 20, 2010
Above: eight month old unborn baby
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From pro-choice writer Emma Maniere:
“After a woman told me the sound of the suction device haunts her over 30 years after her abortion, I wondered why I care so much about being pro-choice.”
EMMA MANIERE “The Feminine Critique: Why I’m Pro-Choice” The Michigan Daily JANUARY 22, 2013
Share on FacebookFrom a pro-choice activist:
“Here’s the complicated reality in which we live: All life is not equal. That’s a difficult thing for liberals like me to talk about, lest we wind up looking like death-panel-loving, kill-your-grandma-and-your-precious-baby storm troopers. Yet a fetus can be a human life without having the same rights as the woman in whose body it resides. She’s the boss. Her life and what is right for her circumstances and her health should automatically trump the rights of the non-autonomous entity inside of her. Always.
When we on the pro-choice side get cagey around the life question, it makes us illogically contradictory. I have friends who have referred to their abortions in terms of “scraping out a bunch of cells” and then a few years later were exultant over the pregnancies that they unhesitatingly described in terms of “the baby” and “this kid.” I know women who have been relieved at their abortions and grieved over their miscarriages. Why can’t we agree that how they felt about their pregnancies was vastly different, but that it’s pretty silly to pretend that what was growing inside of them wasn’t the same? Fetuses aren’t selective like that. They don’t qualify as human life only if they’re intended to be born….
It seems absurd to suggest that the only thing that makes us fully human is the short ride out of some lady’s vagina. That distinction may apply neatly legally, but philosophically, surely we can do better. Instead, we let right-wingers perpetuate the sentimental fiction that no one with a heart — and certainly no one who’s experienced the wondrous miracle of family life — can possibly resist tiny fingers and tiny toes growing inside a woman’s body…
If by some random fluke I learned today I was pregnant, you bet your ass I’d have an abortion. I’d have the World’s Greatest Abortion.”
Mary Elizabeth Williams “So What If Abortion Ends Life?” Salon January 23, 2013
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