They said it.
I have been fortunate not to need abortion services thus far in my life. But when I was pregnant with my son I was comforted to know that should I encounter any complications, any decisions would be left to me and my husband and any care I needed would be covered by my health insurance.
Pro-choicer Jessica Arons
“It’s Time for the Pro-Choice Community to Embrace the Word Abortion” The Daily Beast 01.22.13
Share on Facebook“It was not until the last half of this century that the prying eye of the ultrasound (that is, ultrasound visualization) rendered the once opaque womb transparent, stripping the veil of mystery from the dark inner sanctum, and letting the light of scientific observation fall on the shy and secretive fetus…
The sonographic voyeur, spying on the unwary fetus finds him or her a surprisingly active little creature, not at all the passive parasite we had imagined.”
Physician Michael R. Harrison
Valerie Hartouni “Containing Women: Reproductive Discourse in the 1980s” Techonocluture, Constance Penley and Andrew Ross, eds. (Minneapolis: U of Minneapolis Press, 1991) 38
Share on FacebookYear Guttmacher CDC
1973 744,610 615,831
1974 898,570 763,476
1975 1,034,170 854,853
1976 1,179,300 988,267
1977 1,316,700 1,079,430
1978 1,409,600 1,157,776
1979 1,497,670 1,251,921
1980 1,553,890 1,297,606
1981 1,577,340 1,300,760
1982 1,573,920 1,303,980
1983 1,575,000 1,268,987
1984 1,577,180 1,333,521
1985 1,588,550 1,328,570
1986 1,574,000 1,328,112
1987 1,559,110 1,353,671
1988 1,590,750 1,371,285
1989 1,566,900 1,396,658
1990 1,608,600 1,429,247
1991 1,556,510 1,388,937
1992 1,528,930 1,359,146
1993 1,495,000 1,330,414
1994 1,423,000 1,267,415
1995 1,359,400 1,210,883
1996 1,360,160 1,225,937
1997 1,335,000 1,186,039
1998 1,319,000 884,273*
1999 1,314,800 861,789*
2000 1,312,990 857,475*
2001 1,291,000 853,485*
2002 1,269,000 854,122*
2003 1,250,000 848,163*
2004 1,222,100 839,226*
2005 1,206,200 820,151*
2006 1,242,200 846,181*
2007 1,209,640 827,609*
2008 1,212,350 825,564*
2009 1,151,600 789,116*
2010 1,102,670 765,651*
2011 1,058,490 730,322*
*excludes NH, CA and at least one other state
Total: 57, 496, 011 Guttmacher Inst.(includes projected numbers for 2012-2014)
GI estimates a possible 3% under reporting rate, which is factored into the overall total
“ABORTION statistics: United States Data and Trends” National Right to Life Educational Trust Fund
Below: 7 weeks. Most abortions happen at this time.
9-10 weeks. 40% happen at this stage or later.
12 weeks. 10% of abortions happen later than 12 weeks
See what babies look like after abortion.
Share on FacebookLate term abortionist Dr Willie Parker:
“We pride ourselves in the separation of church and state, but these laws are being framed by individuals who are trying to impose their own morality and religious views on others. That is wrong. It presupposes that everyone in America is a Christian, or religious at all.”
Karen McVeigh “‘I can’t think of a time when it was worse’: US abortion doctors speak out” The Guardian 21 November 2014
Do you really have to be a Christian to be against this?
Share on FacebookA 16-year-old pro-choice young woman saw pictures of aborted babies on the Priests for Life website. This is what she said:
“Hello, I am a 16-year-old female and I just finished looking at the pictures on your site and reading what actually happens during an abortion. Up until five minutes ago I was extremely pro-choice. I thought things like, “let women make their own decisions about their own bodies” and things along those lines. Because of your site, I realize that abortion is not a choice about a woman’s body… It is the LIFE of a BABY. Never before did I realize how truly horrible and careless abortion really is. Maybe it’s because I’d never seen the pictures, or read the actual descriptions of abortion. Maybe I was too afraid to know the truth. I really don’t know. But within three minutes of viewing your website, my face was covered in tears. Those pictures just really hurt to look at. I thank you so, so much for your wonderful website. I cannot express how grateful I am that you have shown me the truth about abortion. God bless you. Thank you once again.”
Rev. Frank Pavone Abolishing Abortion: How You Can Play a Part in Ending the Greatest Evil of Our Day (Nashville, Tennessee: Nelson Books, 2015) 166
You can see what abortion pictures like the ones she was talking about here
Share on FacebookDavid R. Mace describes how in the early years of abortion’s legalization, women did not have much of a chance to talk to counselors about their abortion decisions. Today, often the only “counselors” women speak to before their abortions are those that are employed by the clinic. The clinic is, after all, selling abortions. Crisis pregnancy centers have tried to fill the gap, providing information for women that is not given out in the clinics.
“What counseling services are in fact available to this woman [who is considering abortion]? There are, of course, competent professional men and women in every community- psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, pastoral counselors, marriage counselors. But she probably knows little of these people to meet her particular need. She may make tentative inquiries only to find she can’t get an appointment for several weeks- such people are usually heavily booked up. She may in any case need several interviews at short notice, and that introduces greater complications. Also, there is the problem of cost- she may be scraping the bottom of the financial barrel to pay for the abortion if she decides to have it. Generally speaking, the usual professional counseling services seem to be pretty inaccessible to this woman.”
David R. Mace Abortion: The Agonizing Decision (Oliphants, 1973) 111
Share on FacebookGlenna Boyd and her husband Curtis are abortionists who do abortions late term in their clinic. Glenna says:
“Women express more shame. I can’t think of a time when it was worse than it is now. I used to ask women how they first heard the word abortion, how they learned about it. There were always very personal stories about someone they knew, or found out had had one. Now, the first time they saw it was on some ugly billboard. It has been legal throughout their lifespan, not to mention their reproductive lifespan. But it has been completely politicised. ”
And Curtis Boyd:
“Patients never came in talking about all this shame. They felt it was an OK thing to do, if they could just find somebody to do it for them.”
Karen McVeigh “‘I can’t think of a time when it was worse’: US abortion doctors speak out” The Guardian 21 November 2014
Even after 40 years of legalized abortion in America, abortion is looked upon as a bad thing. The stigma of abortion only exists because more people are pro-life and more and more people are educated about the horror of an abortion procedure and what it does to preborn babies.
Above: 16 weeks. The Boyd’s do abortion at this stage and later
Share on Facebook“Everyone knows life begins biologically at conception. But, no one knows when biology turns into humanity.”
Bill Clinton
William Clinton My Life (New York: Knopf, 2004) 229
From author Anne Hendershott, on Roe V Wade:
“The constitutional law expert Bernard Siegan, for instance, believes that some of the justices, rather than engaging in a careful reading of the Constitution to guide them, made a political decision based upon their own personal beliefs. In his book The Supreme Court’s Constitution, Professor Siegan suggests that in the case of Roe V Wade, “a major problem confronted by the majority justices was how best to rationalize constitutionally this enormously important decision, destined to strike down, in whole or in part, the statutes of every state in the union.” Siegan concludes that instead of interpreting a particular provision of the Constitution as requiring invalidation of a statute, the justices sought to find constitutional basis for decisions they had already determined in advance.”
Anne Hendershott The Politics of Abortion (New York, New York: Encounter Books, 2006) 2
Share on FacebookSally Blackmun, Supreme Court Associate Justice Harry Blackmun’s daughter, talks about why he found in favor of Roe V Wade:
“Sally Blackmun, an abortion-rights activist and daughter of Justice Harry Blackmun, who authored the Roe V Wade opinion, recounts how personal considerations entered into her father’s thinking on the matter. She recalls that he often discussed the broad issues involved in his cases with his family “around the dinner table,” and says that “he really struggled with Roe V Wade.” At one point, when the family was in the middle of a meal together, justice Blackmun asked Sally and her two sisters how they thought the case should be decided. They said that they favored the plaintiff. Appearing to take partial credit for the historic Supreme Court decision, Sally suggests that her father was certainly influenced by “his 3 daughters and an outspoken, independent wife.” And although Justice Blackmun’s written decision cites a right of privacy that he found in the 14th amendment to the Constitution, his daughter maintains that he also viewed Roe as “an opportunity to give women rights that will emancipate them.” Noting that her father had spent 9 years working as a general counsel for the Mayo Clinic, Sally Blackmun concludes that this period of his life “gave him the opportunity to see firsthand the aftereffects of botched illegal abortions.”
Sally Blackmun, introduction to Gloria Feldt, The War on Choice (New York: Random House, 2004), xix
Quoted in Anne Hendershott The Politics of Abortion (New York, New York: Encounter Books, 2006) 1-2
What would’ve happened if one of his daughters or his wife had been pro-life?
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