They said it.
“Altruism is the driving force that motivates doctors who perform abortions….”
Abortionist Dr. David Grimes of the University of California at San Francisco
Richard John Neuhaus “A Word on “The Competition” First Things June/July 1993
Altruism, and making a lot of money.
Pro-choice activist describing what pro-lifers did when there was an ordinance to legalize abortion in North Dakota (before Roe V Wade):
“They distributed this color brochure with a picture of the [14-week aborted] fetus door-to-door in Fargo and the rest of the state on Sunday and Monday, so we couldn’t respond since the vote was on Tuesday. I remember I went and spoke the night before the election when the darn pamphlet landed on people’s doorsteps. I got this absolutely tremulous woman who came to talk to me. You could see that her faith was really shaken… Well the referendum was defeated very badly [78% in the state, 64% in Fargo] and it was a real setback.”
Faye D Ginsburg Contested Lives: the Abortion Debate in an American Community (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1989, 1998) 71
See what this baby looks like after an abortion.
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From a pro-choice feminist:
Feminist reluctance to engage in reflexive discussion of fetuses has been a prudential response to the politics of abortion. To talk about fetuses has been thought to cede to the pro-life movement its major premise, and so to foreclose the feminist insistence on reproductive freedom for women. Given the antagonisms that continue to erode whatever small ground we’ve gained in the struggle for reproductive control, it is understandable that feminist scholars and activists have tended to work around rather than through the fetus…
Talking about the fetus, she says:
necessarily forces us into dangerous territory.
Lynn M Morgan and Meredith W Michaels eds. Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999) 1-2
Stephen W Mosher writes about what he saw in China:
“The year was 1980. One of the first American social scientists allowed to do research in China since the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949, I was living in rural Guangdong and was engaged in a study of an agricultural commune. One day several hundred young commune women, all pregnant with their second or third children, were ordered to attend family planning meetings. Inquiries revealed that the provincial government had secretly ordered a 1% cap on population growth for the year. Local officials were complying the only way they could – by launching a family planning “high tide” during the month of March to terminate as many pregnancies as possible…
No woman was to be allowed to bear a second child within four years of her first, and third children were strictly forbidden…
Over the next few weeks I became an eyewitness to every aspect of this draconian campaign. I went with young women to family planning “study sessions”… And saw them harangued and threatened by senior party officials. I follow them as they were taken under escort to the commune clinic and watched – with the permission of local officials who were eager to demonstrate their prowess in birth control to a visiting foreigner – as they were aborted and sterilized. I spoke with anguished husbands and heartbroken grandparents and interviewed poker-faced officials in charge. I left China a few months later with women’s pleas for help still ringing in my ears”
Stephen W Mosher A Mother’s Ordeal: One Woman’s Fight against China’s One Child Policy (Orlando, Florida: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993) vii–viii
Share on FacebookCindy Ortegus, of Phoenix, Arizona talks about what happened after her legal abortion:
“The next five days were living hell for me as I contracted a gross infection called peritonitis. My fever soared rapidly and I remained in guarded condition for four days. One of the nurses said, “It’s going to take more than prayer to pull this one out of it.” At that moment I knew I was on the verge of death… The reason the infection had said it was due to the fact that the abortionist did not abort my entire baby the first time around, making it necessary to repeat the procedure.
Diane Monahan and Karen Sullivan-Ables “Abortion as Your Option” Heritage House, #904 AO
Share on Facebook“I wanted to find out if UCLA would help a student who wanted to keep her baby…I went to my university’s health center, saying that I was pregnant, and asked, ‘What can I do?’ The student counselor, a nurse-practitioner, told me that ‘UCLA does not support women who are pregnant nor help them.’ I was told that UCLA has two abortionists on call. That was the extent of support that this institution, this great university, had to offer students who might be pregnant.”
Lila Rose, founder of Live Action
Jeff Gardner “Lila Rose is up to something” Celebrate Life March-April 2010
Share on FacebookU.S. researchers found that most women report “moderate or more discomfort” during their abortions. Researchers say they had not expected so many to report “severe pain.”
L. Borgatta and D. Nickinovich, “Pain during early abortion,” Journal of Reproductive Medicine, Vol. 42, No. 5 (May 1997), pp. 287-293.
For more quotes and information on the pain women feel during abortion, go here.
Share on Facebook“The fierce opposition to women making this, what for them is a sacred decision, is ever-present in at least every place that I’ve been.”
Late term abortionist Dr. Willie Parker
Andrew Johnson “Abortion Provider Calls Taking Life of Unborn ‘a Sacred Decision’ National Review August 6, 2014
Dr. Willie Parker does abortions like the one above. Is this really a “sacred decision?”
Share on FacebookPro-choice professor Peter Singer, who supports infanticide:
“If one accepts abortion … killing other human beings, in certain circumstances … is not something to be regarded with horror… . On the contrary … it is the refusal to accept killing that, in some cases, is horrific.”
Quoted in Serrin M Foster “Refusal to Accept Killing” The American Feminist Winter 1999 – 2000
Above: preborn baby at 10 1/2 weeks. Below: picture of 10 week baby afterabortion
Is the killing of this baby horrific? Or is it horrific to refuse to kill a baby like this, as Peter Singer says?
Share on Facebook“We either support women’s capacity to decide, or we don’t. You can’t be pro-choice except when you don’t like the choice, because that’s not pro-choice at all.”
Ann Furedi, head of a chain of abortion clinics (BPAS) in England, defending sex selection abortions
Nearly 200,000 abortions in England and Wales are now carried out each year, and abortion ends more than one in five of all pregnancies.
Some 55,000 terminations are performed by BPAS
CHRIS PLEASANCE “‘You CAN abort a baby because of its sex’: Outrage at comments by boss of Britain’s biggest terminations clinic” The Daily Mail 17 September 2013
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