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Eugenicist: birth control and abortion are great eugenic advances

Frederick Osborn was: “the key strategist of the American Eugenics Society and the first president of the Population Council. Well before surgical abortion became a major issue, Osborn advocated research on chemical abortion and the Population Council’s distribution of abortifacient IUDs”

He was quoted saying:

“Birth control and abortion are turning out to be the great eugenic advances of our time. If they had been advanced for eugenic reasons, it would have retarded or stopped their acceptance.”

Frederick Osborn “Notes on Marble and Fox…” January 25, 1974, Osborn Papers, Folder on “Osborn – Paper – Notes on “Paradigms or Public Relations…” Quoted in Mary Meehan “How Eugenics and Population Control Led to Abortion” Meehan Reports.com

Quoted in Brian E Fisher Abortion: The Ultimate Exploitation of Women (Frisco, Texas: Online for Life, 2013) Kindle edition

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Pro-abortion “feminist” groups hold fundraisers in Playboy mansion

In the 1970s, Illinois Citizens for the Medical Control of Abortion (ICMCA) and NARAL were trying to legalize abortion.

“The approach to fundraising taken by both ICMCA and NARAL in the early years also reflected the connections and resources of their leaders and members.… Bold organizations relied in the early 1970s on substantial contributions from wealthy supporters… ICMCA also used the social skills of the more affluent members to put on a number of fundraisers designed to attract wealthy donors at fashionable places like the Drake Hotel amd the Playboy mansion in Chicago….

Although many women’s movement organizations have refused to accept Playboy money, NARAL and its affiliates took from the start a pragmatic attitude towards accepting support from the Playboy Foundation.”

Suzanne Staggenborg The Pro-Choice Movement: Organization and Activism In the Abortion Conflict (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991) 33, 192

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Andrea Dworkin on why abortion is important to feminists

Pro-Choice feminist Andrea Dworkin explains why abortion rights were so important to other feminists:

“Getting laid was at stake.”

Catherine McKinnon Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law (Pres. and Fellows of Harvard College, 1987) 99

Brian E Fisher Abortion: The Ultimate Exploitation of Women (Frisco, Texas: Online for Life, 2013) Kindle edition

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Founding president of international pro-abort group was eugenicist

CP Blacker was chosen by Sanger to be the founding president of the International Planned Parenthood Federation.

He was quoted saying:

“You seek to fulfill the aims of eugenics without disclosing what you are really aiming at and without mentioning the word.”

Matthew James Connolly Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University, 2008) 163

Brian E Fisher Abortion: The Ultimate Exploitation of Women (Frisco, Texas: Online for Life, 2013) Kindle edition

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Pro-Abortion leader compares his cause to fight against slavery

Lawrence Lader, who founded NARAL and was pivotal in legalizing abortion in New York, said the right to abortion was a moral cause on par with the abolition of slavery in the 1800s:

“Both involved fundamental moral and religious positions that collided with the entrenched interests of their time.… [And both] had been created by laws which were blatantly in conflict with basic rights seemingly protected by the Constitution…”

Lawrence Lader Abortion II: Making the Revolution (Boston: Beacon Press, 1974) ix

How is killing a baby like this one equal to freeing a slave?

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Pro-lifers encouraged pastors not to join pro-abortion group

Barbara Moore, coordinator for the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights, in an interview 1984, wrote about how effective pro-lifers were in preventing clergy from joining her group:

“It’s really difficult to find people who are activist types, who are not already committed on other issues. The other thing is, in almost every community around the state, there is an antichoice group, either a Catholic group or a fundamentalist group. Often, it’s only a small group of people, but they are real effective. A lot of clergy are saying to me, “I’m with you, but I think there are a lot of antiabortion people in my congregation.” Ministers are very cautious about choosing issues with which to address their congregations. So it is something of an uphill battle.”

Suzanne Staggenborg The Pro-Choice Movement: Organization and Activism In the Abortion Conflict (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991) 102

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Pro-choicer: Abortion pictures humanize the unborn

“The entire pro-life movement has made substantial gains in humanizing a fetus at every stage of pregnancy and helping to establish personal rights for the unborn. Enlarged pictures of aborted fetuses and other graphic illustrations are commonly displayed at protests and may help contribute to a changing, more humanized, conceptualization of a fetus and in turn help sway public approval against the permissibility of using elective abortion services to resolve unwanted pregnancies.”

Alesha E Doan Opposition & Intimidation: The Abortion Wars and Strategies of Political Harassment (Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Of Michigan Press, 2010) 161
She is referring to pictures like this one ,the arm and hand of a baby aborted at 9 weeks

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Abortion clinic worker complains about her job

A clinic worker complains about her workplace:

“Sometimes our employers tend so much to the “business” part of our business, that they forget the heart of it. They forget that without passion, without advocacy, without caring for more than the bottom line (and without having employees who do, to their core, have these qualities), they will have a very cold business. They will lose those who care the most: who are motivated by making a difference in women’s lives. Some of my friends are getting lied to by their bosses: being promised that they would always have a job/not get a paycut/not get laid-off/that they’re too valuable to ever lose; then all of the above happens. And employees who are rude to patients, rude to other employees, who suck the heart out of a clinic stay behind.”

Shitty Jobs: They Exist Here, Too The Abortioneers March 15, 2012

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Zero Population Growth, abortion, and racism

Former executive director of Zero Population Growth Roy Morgan (he’s talking about what abortion was legalized and shortly afterwards) Zero Population Growth was instrumental in the fight to legalize abortion prior to Roe V. Wade.

“There were some people in ZPG in the early years, at the local chapter level for sure… who hopped on the ZPG bandwagon because they were rather draconian about what they wanted to do to bring down the population. Some of them were racist – there’s no doubt about it – some of them were restrictionist; they didn’t want any more people in.… So they’re very hard lined about population growth. It was a lot of that. It was mostly in the early years.”

Suzanne Staggenborg The Pro-Choice Movement: Organization and Activism In the Abortion Conflict (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991) 163

These were people who were involved in making abortion illegal. So it shows that racism was a motive – more documentation of this is in the section on “Racism and Sexism”.

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Minister: Life Begins with Breathing

“Moreover, the Vatican idea that human life begins with conception is an attempt to override the biblical idea that human life begins with breathing. The Hebrew word that describes a human being is naphesh– the breathing one. It occurs 775 times in the Hebrew Bible. It is obvious that in Hebrew thought a fetus is not a living human being because it does not breathe on its own.

Pro-life groups mistakenly apply one of the 10 Commandments – “you shall not kill” – to a fetus… It is desperation that makes “pro-lifers” apply the commandment to an embryo or fetus because there is no explicit reference in the entire Bible that is antiabortion or pro-life with respect to a fetus.”

John M Swomley, ordained United Methodist minister

John M Swomley Compulsory Pregnancy: the War against American Women (Amherst, New York: Humanist Press, 1999) 85 – 86

According to Swomley, this peborn baby is not alive because although he has been breathing amniotic fluid since the 11th week, he is not breathing air.

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