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Minister: Planned Parenthood is doing “sacred work”

From Tom Davis , who is an ordained minister with the United Church of Christ and a chaplain and professor at Skidmore College:

“I contend that Planned Parenthood is engaged in a form of sacred work, the work, that is, of securing reproductive justice for women… Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is thoroughly secular. But when it comes to the issue of sacred work, that doesn’t matter. The scripture is clear about one thing: sacred work, the work of justice, is sacred no matter who does it.… In the biblical view, sacred work is love, and in practical social realities, sacred work is justice.”

Tom Davis Sacred Work: Planned Parenthood and Its Clergy Alliances (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2005) 6 – 7

Below: some “sacred work” at 9 weeks

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Which life takes priority? in abortion

“Having looked at the facts, uncomfortable as they are, you have to make up your own mind as to which life takes priority. That decision is a moral one, that only you can make.”

Pro-choice filmmaker Julia Black

ABC.net: Religion and Ethics:12-28-2005

She admits that there are two lives involved in an abortion.

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Clinic worker: Yay, more abortions!

A clinic worker commenting on a graph with states colored different shades based on how many abortions they had:

Hey look, a bunch of heat maps of abortion stats in the US! The above shows abortion rates in each state. Right off the bat, I can tell that states with the highest abortion rates are some of those where Medicaid covers the cost of the procedure. Yay, Medicaid!

Wanna see something weird? The Abortioneers June 14, 2012

Yay, Medicaid! Yay, more abortion! Yay!

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Abortion, like war, is “taking of life”

“I think abortion belongs in the same context as assisted suicide, euthanasia, even war and domestic self-defense – all situations that require the taking of life with moral, ethical knowledge and acceptance of responsibility.”

Pro-choice activist Judith Arcana

“Feminist politics and abortion in the US” Psychology and Reproductive Choice

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Abortion is “very rewarding” says abortionist

From William Ramos, abortionist:

“I find this – performing abortions – to be a very rewarding practice, emotionally and financially.”

“Abortion fare wars” Washington Time 1-3-2001

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Turn the ultrasound screen away from abortion patient, says doctor

“A compassionate and sensitive sonographer should remember to turn the screen away from the plane of view [of the patient].

Staff too may find themselves increasingly disturbed by the repeated visual impact of an aspect of their work that they need to partially deny in order to continue to function optimally and to concentrate on the needs of the women who come to them for help.”

Transcript excerpts from a talk entitled “Abortion Update” (talk no. 1065), given by Dr. Sally Faith Dorfman, director of Family Planning, Development, and Research at Albert Einstein Medical College in New York, at the American Public Health Conference, November 18, 1985, in Washington, D.C. Recorded by Robert G. Marshall, director of research, Castello Institute.

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Pro-choicer: don’t debate with pro-lifers, they are like Nazis.

“Along with most other pro-choice groups, we do not engage in debates with the anti-choice … Simply put, the right to abortion is not a debatable issue. Access to legal, safe abortion is a fundamental human right, one that should be safeguarded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Would you have a debate on whether people have the right to freedom of religion? Or the right to equal protection under the law? Or the right not to be held in slavery or servitude? … Would a Jew debate a Nazi? “

Joyce Arthur of the Pro-Choice Action Network.

“Why Pro-Choice Supporters Do Not Debate the Anti-Choice.” Quoted in “To Debate or Not to Debate.” The Caleb Report [Life Decisions, Inc.], July-August 1999, pages 3 and 4.

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How abortionists were viewed by the medical community

A pro-choice author talks about how abortionists have been viewed in the medical community:

One doctor practicing in the 1950s described how his doctor father taught him that “abortionists had the same social status as a child molester or rapist.” His father’s message was echoed by his teachers in medical school, who stressed that the doctors didn’t do immoral things like abortion. This man, who admitted he had no contact with abortion or abortion practitioners in the criminal era, had easily internalized the lessons:

“I had strong opinions about the scum of the earth – abortionists.… I was taught that abortion was not only illegal but immoral, and that no self-respecting doctor who considered herself a part of the medical community would perform an abortion… Abortionists were “bums,” “murderers,” real “lowlifes,” and very inept physicians who could not make a living any other way. They were objects of contempt and scorn.”

Rickie Solinger Beggars and Choosers (New York: Hill and Wang, 2001) 48 – 49

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A physician performing a D&E must crush the fetus’s skull

18 weeks. Candidate for this type of abortion

From an editorial on abortion doctor’s emotional response to a D&E (dismemberment) abortion:

“[A] physician performing a D&E must deal with the second trimester foetus in an intimate, physical way…ossified parts, such as the skull, must be crushed. The bone fragments must be extracted carefully to avoid tearing the cervix. Reconstruction of the fetal sections after removal from the uterus is necessary to ensure completeness of the abortion procedure. “

“Emotional Impact of D&E vs. Instillation,” Family Planning Perspectives 1977

From Abortion: A Briefing for Canadian Legislators . National Public Affairs Office, Campaign Life Coalition Suite 100, 1355 Wellington Street, Ottawa, ON K1Y 3C2

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Pro-choice activist condemns Planned Parenthood for demanding high cash contributions

A pro-choice activist complained about how Planned Parenthood discounted volunteers like her and pressured its supporters for money. She explains why she will no longer volunteer at PP:

“I have been volunteering for Planned Parenthood for the past three years. … I cannot afford to attend $85 luncheons, let alone write a $250 check. The core volunteer group that I work with has similar motivations – we love Planned Parenthood, but sometimes it feels like our contributions are completely overlooked, especially when we constantly get emails from PPFA asking for more and more money.

My problem doesn’t just reside with Planned Parenthood. Every nonprofit that I have ever worked for, either as a volunteer or a staff member, seems to discount the donor who can only afford to give $5 or $10. Volunteer hours are never calculated in terms of their economic value to the organization. And staff who already contribute to the organization by working long hours for very little pay are also disrespected when they are hit up for money by the development officers. When you’re only making $27,000 a year, how in the hell are you supposed to afford spending $250 a month in financial contributions to your employer?

Here’s the scoop: if PPFA didn’t spend so much money on fancy pink posters and snazzy T-shirts, they might not need to shake the money tree so often….

My tenure as a Planned Parenthood volunteer is rapidly coming to a close.”

“How effective is corporate feminism?” Abortion Gang Nov 21 2011

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