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Early Planned Parenthood declared that “weak and defective” people shouldn’t have children

A 1943 Planned Parenthood list of goals included:

“Foster selective pregnancy… and… seek to offer the eugenically unsound means to avoid bringing offspring into the world who would become social liabilities.”

Another outline in 1945 read:

“The weak and defective compose an alarming proportion of our present population… [The solution is] providing reliable contraceptive advice for those who, because of disease, defective, or deficiency, are unfitting to bear children.”

Robert Marshall, Charles Donovan Blessed Are the Barren: The Social Policy of Planned Parenthood (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1991) 280

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

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Feminist recalls her abortion as a poor inner-city teen

J Victoria Sanders, on why she had an abortion at 15:

“I was just a confused black girl in the Bronx, but I was smart enough to know I couldn’t care for a child then… No one on the corner had swagger like Bronx girls, but it had to be shitty to push a baby carriage around alone. I could barely take care of myself.”

She describes how had once sympathized with the prolife position but changed her mind when she became pregnant.

“In the 1980s and 1990s, pro-life propaganda was hard-core. Sometimes it was just a glimpse of a pink fetus against a black backdrop on a commercial with the loud sound of a beating heart. Other times, protesters carried rosaries, like my mother’s, making it clear: abortion is murder.

When I was younger and more serious, before I got pregnant, I agreed with these people. Because I knew Jesus and I thought they were doing God’s work, saving the babies. What kind of woman killed her child?…

I was given a choice to choose myself over my mistake, this unwanted baby. What would God have me do? To bring a baby to term and leave it at a firehouse was not an option – we did not have Baby Moses laws then. If I became a teenage mother, I feared as a girl that I would always be a statistic, I would never leave the Bronx, and I would never leave my mother. I would always be tethered to the needs of my mother and the needs of my child…..

Later she says:

I follow Jesus’s example, basically…”

J Victoria Sanders “Grown-Up Woman Swagger” in Kim Wyatt, Sari Botton Get Out Of My Crotch: 21 Writers Respond to America’s War on Women’s Rights and Reproductive Health (South Lake Tahoe, California: Cherry Bomb Books, 2012) Kindle edition

Why Sanders thought that the only way to give a baby up for adoption was to bring him to a firehouse is never explained.

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A baby can see and hear in the womb

By midpregnancy the fetus has begun to explore its own body and environment using its hands. It often holds on to the umbilical cord, and when a thumb approaches its mouth, it will turn and begin to make sucking motions with its lips… The fetus is also using its sense of hearing for orientation. Its most familiar sounds are surely the noises of the mother’s digestive system and the swishing from her major blood vessels, but gradually the fetus also begins to perceive the sounds of the mother’s world, such as music and the father’s voice. The eyes of the fetus are sensitive to light, even though the eyelids are still shut tight… We have no way of knowing whether the fetus tastes the slight salinity of the amniotic fluid. Still, we have indirect evidence that the fetus tastes and smells, since a newborn immediately reacts positively or negatively to tastes that are sweet, salty, or bitter…

Lennart Nilsson and Lars Hamberger, A Child is Born, 4th edition. New York: Bantum Dell, 2003. p. 141.

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A new individual is formed

“Reproduction depends on the union of male and female gametes (reproductive, or germ, cells) each with a half set of chromosomes, to form a new individual with a full, unique set of chromosomes.”

Human Physiology: From Cells to Systems 2nd Cd Ed,Sherwood, Kell & Ward, 2013, 2010, Nelson Education Ltd. 709

See more quotes saying life begins at conception here.

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Dorchen Leidholt on why men support abortion

Feminist Dorchen Leidholt:

“Sexually liberal men support abortion for women not because they want women to be able to control their bodies because they know that unrestricted abortions heighten women’s availability to men for sex.”

Dorchen Leidholt, Introduction, The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism (Pergamon Press, 1990) xv cited in René Denfield The New Victorians: A Young Woman’s Challenge to the Old Feminist Order

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

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Former clinic worker: “certain types of women” were encouraged to abort

Former abortion clinic worker Laurel Guymer said:

Women who were poor, unemployed, too young, too old, working in the sex industry, not married, had no steady partner, or suffered any mental instability were reassured by the clinic staff and society that it was best they have an abortion. It is clear that society fears a certain type of woman having a baby and I found that many of the doctors and nurses I met in the abortion clinic were not any different despite their supposed commitment to feminist principles.

Melinda Tankard Reist Giving Sorrow Words: Women’s Stories of Grief after Abortion (Springfield, IL: Acorn Books, 2007) 31

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Woman decides against an abortion her partner did not want

Brian E Fisher, from Online for Life, tells the following story:

“The day after Christmas a woman, we’ll call her Sarah, telephoned a local, life-affirming center (a local, community-based organization designed to educate families about pregnancy and options other than abortion). She had already taken two home pregnancy tests – both positive. She had decided to abort her baby. After she had a few questions answered, the woman said she was going to call a few other clinics. The center asked permission to follow up with her in a few days, and she agreed.

Sarah called back the next day on her own, asking if she could come in for an ultrasound. She had called abortion clinics, discovered she couldn’t get an abortion appointment in her own city for a few weeks, and was preparing to go out of state so she could get the procedure done sooner. Because she needed to verify the pregnancy with an ultrasound before the abortion, she agreed to come to the life-affirming center.

Sarah came in that day with her husband, Paul. While she was having her ultrasound, the staff spoke with him.

“I don’t want her to get the abortion. I don’t like abortion and don’t understand why she doesn’t want the child,” Paul said.

Sarah’s reasons were simple. The couple already had a little girl, and she didn’t want another baby. She was going to school to get her degree, and another child would make that education very difficult to attain. She wasn’t mentally or emotionally ready to be a new mom again.

The center gave her the ultrasound and talked to her about pregnancy, the child, and her options.

The couple left. Paul wanted to have the child; Sarah was now unsure if she wanted to abort.

Several days later, the center called Paul to follow up. Paul was overjoyed to report that Sarah had changed her mind, and they were going to carry and parent their child.

“I can’t thank you enough for talking to her,” he said. “I so appreciate your help.”

Here’s the twist: Paul is a policeman. His job is to protect people, even if that means putting himself in harm’s way. Yet he had no legal or cultural authority to protect his own unborn child, whom he desperately wanted to live.

The moment his child was born, Paul would have legal rights as a father to do everything possible to protect and provide for his child. And his job requires him to do that for complete strangers every day. Yet, though he wanted his child to live, he was helpless to protect the baby while she was growing in her mother’s womb.”

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

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Abortion clinics were “decrepit” and “dilapidated”

“My first day on the job, a staff member took me on a driving tour of our seven clinics, which primarily served low income women. I was highly impressed by the quality of the medical services and staff but distressed by the environment in which those services were delivered. Many of the clinics were dilapidated. The furniture was decrepit. The medical staff wore T–shirts and jeans. I worried that women coming into these clinics might feel as though they were not deserving of medical settings comparable to those more prosperous women would expect. I made the same point to our board in their next meeting.

“We should not provide medical services in these settings, and the fact that we serve mostly poor women does not justify the conditions of these clinics. It’s an insult to poor women to strive for anything less than what other women would expect.”

Kate Michelman Protecting the Right to Choose (New York: Plume, 2007) 33

One would question, if the clinic were “dilapidated” and “decrepit” if the medical care given was really “impressive?”

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Woman has three abortions- but can buy herself shoes

Karen [last name withheld] was considering abortion. When asked by a social worker if she was sure she didn’t want her baby, she said:

“No, I need things. When mommy needs shoes and baby needs shoes, you know who gets the shoes. No, I don’t want no kids.”

She aborted, then went on to have 2 more abortions. When she finally did marry a man who wanted children, she was unable to have them,

Kate Maloy and Maggie Jones Patterson Birth or Abortion? Private Struggles in a Political World (New York: Plenum Press, 1992) 118

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NARAL’s mission statement: keep abortion legal (not safe)

Former NARAL executive director Karen Mulhauser:

“After the 1980 elections, we had a several day retreat with the board to develop a mission statement … We spent several hours trying to decide whether or not part of our mission should include the phrase “keep abortion safe and legal” or just “keep abortion legal.” There were other groups formed to keep abortion safe, and then we decided to exclude that word from our mission statement. That’s not part of our mission to keep it safe.”

Suzanne Staggenborg The Pro-Choice Movement: Organization and Activism In the Abortion Conflict (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991) 107