Abortion was once the most commonly performed surgical procedure in the US

Pro-choice author Johanna Schoen wrote that in the late 1970s:

“… Legalization made abortion into the…most widely performed surgical procedure in the United States.”

Johanna Schoen Abortion after Roe (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University Of North Carolina Press, 2015) 25

She cites:

Willard Cates Jr. and David A Grimes “Morbidity and Mortality of Abortion in the United States” in Abortion and Sterilization: Medical and Social Aspects, Jane E Hodgson, ed. (New York: Grune and Stratton, 1981) 155

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Post abortive woman: “I carried the guilt of it for many, many years.”

Tameka S Bright got pregnant and had an abortion in college. She had recently lost both her parents. She says:

“I didn’t want to disappoint my family, mainly my brothers. Therefore I went through with this plan and endured the most painful experience of my life – next to losing my parents. I knew that what I was doing was wrong. I had that one friend on campus trying to talk me out of it, but I was too embarrassed. It was done. I did it… And I carried the guilt of it for many, many years.”

When she got pregnant, years later:

“With my pregnancy, I was so scared that something would be wrong with my child. The guilt of the abortion came back to me and I thought I would be punished and possibly lose the baby.”

Tameka S Bright Broken for the Purpose (2020) 43, 66

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Teenager chooses life after seeing the ultrasound

Shawn Carney of 40 Days for Life told the following story:

“Volunteers outside Planned Parenthood in Roanoke pleaded with a teenager who was going in for an abortion. “Please don’t go in there,” they told her. The only “option” they offer would end the life of her child.

She laughed. “I know,” the young woman said. “That’s what I’m going to do.”

“It brought tears to my eyes,” said Shirley, the local 40 Days for Life coordinator in Roanoke. “I sat down and cried for her seeming callousness.”

But less than an hour later, tears turned to joy. The teen walked out of Planned Parenthood and spoke to the people praying outside.

“I can’t do it,” she said. “I saw the ultrasound.”

She explained she was 6 weeks pregnant, her boyfriend didn’t want the baby – and she’s afraid of what her parents will say. The volunteers prayed with her – and helped set up an appointment for her at the pregnancy care center in her hometown.”

SHAWN CARNEY “Woman Pregnant With Twins Almost Had Abortion Until She Saw the Ultrasound” LifeNews OCT 2, 2014

 

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Document reveals how pro-abortion movement came up with term “pro-choice”

In a memorandum from the early pro-abortion advocacy group the Association for the Study of Abortion, the term “pro-choice” was proposed and reasons were given for why the pro-abortion movement should adopt it as a slogan. The organization was trying to come up with a slogan to match “right to life” which pro-lifers had adopted. The memorandum says:

“The alternatives seem to be Freedom of Conscience and Right to Choose. I hope someone can think of a clearly better one but, in the meantime, let me say why I think the latter preferable. There are two reasons – the first superficial, the second, less so.

a. Right to Life is short, catchy, and is composed of monosyllabic words (an important consideration in English). We need something comparable – Right to Choose would seem to do the job.

b. More important, though, is the fact that conscience is an internal matter while choice has to do with action – and it is action we are concerned with.”

Memorandum of the Association for the Study of Abortion, Jimmye Kimmey “Right to Choose Memorandum,” December 1972

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Pro-choicer admits there are two lives involved in abortion

Pro-choice author Craig C Malborn writes:

“… Abortion is a decision that always involves two lives. When clearly articulated, the need to consider two lives creates the core dilemma in abortion, i.e., placing in competition two lives linked by motherhood. No world religion or tradition can escape confronting the two life dilemma unavoidable in abortion…

We must accept that the issue of abortion by necessity involves two lives, embryonic and maternal. These two lives coexist at vastly different developmental stages. Can these two lives be “valued” as equal?”

Craig C Malborn Abortion in 21st-Century America: A Matter of Life/Lives and/or Death (North Charleston, South Carolina: Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2012) 49, 54

His answer is no – the two lives are not equal. But he acknowledges that there are two lives involved, and that abortion destroys a life.

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Adrienne Rich on abortion and violence

Well-known feminist Adrienne Rich writes:

“Abortion is violence: a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.”

Adrienne Rich Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution (New York: WW Norton & Company, 1976) 269

 

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Abortionist doesn’t believe all humans are equal

Pro-lifer PJ Keeley was participating in 40 Days for Life in front of an abortion facility in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Two days in a row, the abortionist drove up in his car and told him to get off the front walk and stop blocking it. PJ maintains that he was not blocking it. Each time, he complied, saying only “Yes, we want to follow the law.” On the third day, he added:

“Especially the law that states all mankind are created equal.”

The abortionist replied:

“Supposedly created equal. Supposedly!”.

The author comments:

“Can a person who does not believe in the founding principle of the United States – that all mankind are created equal – be fair-minded when approached by a person in a crisis pregnancy situation?

Should a person who does not believe in the founding principle of the United States have any say in a matter in which he or she is paid if a life is taken?”

PJ Keeley The ArtPeace Project (Bloomington, Indiana: WestBow Press, 2017) 8–9

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Study finds that 60% of women going into abortion clinics aren’t upset by pro-life protesters

A study interviewed women who went into abortion facilities while pro-lifers were sidewalk counseling or protesting outside.

60% of women going into clinics for abortions weren’t upset by pro-life sidewalk counselors and protesters, the study found. The study was done in 2011 by pro-choice researchers.

This disproves the common pro-abortion claim that pro-lifers outside of abortion facilities traumatize women with their offers of help.

The study is:

D Foster et al. “Effects of Clinic Protesters on Women’s Emotional Response to Abortion” Contraception 84 (September 2011): 303

It was cited in Jeannie Ludlow “Love and Goodness: Toward a New Abortion Politics” Feminist Studies Vol. 38, No. 2 (Summer 2012), pp. 474-483

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Post-Abortive woman felt like she “didn’t deserve” another baby

Emily Turner, who wrote a book about her abortion, which she regretted, wrote about how she felt when she became pregnant after her abortion and then miscarried:

“… I battled hard against the pretense that I didn’t deserve this baby. I had told myself that because I forfeited my chance at motherhood on that day in June, I didn’t deserve another. Within the week I started bleeding and at our doctor’s appointment a few days later, it was made clear that I was no longer pregnant.

See this, this is what I deserve. I wanted to be sad and I was sad, but expressing my sorrow felt shameful. After all, I didn’t deserve this baby anyway, right? I didn’t deserve the gift of motherhood or a chance for redemption.”

Emily Turner The “A” Words: My Gut Wrenching and Mildly Hilarious Story from Abuse and Abortion Into Understanding Freedom (undated)

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Pro-choice author: abortion is shrouded in “stigma and shame”

British pro-choice reporter Daisy Buchanan wrote:

“…we as a society, struggle to talk about abortion. All over the world, over pints, cocktails or cups of tea, we share stories about sex, family, relationships and careers – but terminating a pregnancy is never an easy subject to broach…We rarely have frank conversations about abortion. The subject is shrouded in stigma and shame…

If I thought of it as an entirely medical matter, I wouldn’t be scared to mention it to my friends and I’m sure they’d feel more comfortable asking me for any support they needed. We can’t afford to stigmatise it when it could affect us all.”

Daisy Buchanan “Abortion legal time limit: Why we feminists owe it to ourselves to not ignore this uncomfortable issue” The Telegraph 03 September 2014

Perhaps abortion is stigmatized so much because people realize it’s the killing of a child?

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