The Ohio National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (now NARAL Pro-Choice America) director told the Los Angeles Times,
“no one could have realized that the antichoice people are never going to give up… The average member of the public doesn’t understand significance of the threat that is out there from people like Janet.”
“Janet” refers to pro-life activist Janet L Folger. This quote reveals that pro-abortion groups fear pro-lifers (who they call “anti-choice” and are frustrated that pro-lifers continue to fight for the unborn.
Bob Sipchen “Cause and Effect” Los Angeles Times, April 3, 1997 1 E
Unborn babies (like this one) are the ones really under threat
“That means something like 400 [pregnant women] have had their life substantially disrupted… “It means that 400 real children at the end of those pregnancies are going to be born into families that may have, at very realistic levels, said that, ‘We can’t afford another mouth to feed,’ or ‘I can’t afford child care.’,”
Bryan Howard,president of Planned Parenthood Arizona, on the drop in abortions by 400 after a pro-life law took effect. A law requiring a medical doctor to perform every abortion and meet with the patient 24 hours before the operation to offer her a chance to see the ultrasound.
HOWARD FISCHER “Cause of abortions drop in state disputed” Yuma Sun Oct. 12, 2011
This quote shows that laws offering women the chance to see an ultrasound of their baby reduce the number of abortions and save children’s lives. This is why Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics usually turned the ultrasound away from women and discourage them from seeing the images. Here we see that Planned Parenthood is unhappy about the babies who have been born alive because of the laws. Whether this unhappiness springs from loss of revenue or from anti-child sentiment is unclear.
An abortion clinic in Canada has appealed to the govt to get rid of banner saying “Abortion Stops a Beating Heart” and listing phone number where pregnant women can find help to have her baby.
“We wrote letters, we’ve done all kinds of things.”
Leonard Stern “Abortion Wars” The Ottawa Citizen Sun 28 May 2000
In America, Crisis pregnancy centers that offer similar help are also often under attack by abortion providers.
They do not seem to care that what the billboard says is true (and unborn baby’s heart begins beating at 21 days after conception, before most abortions take place) and that women who call the number will not be prevented from having abortions, but, rather, will be given support if they choose to carry to term
A 2000 article told the story of Linda Gibbons, a pro-life sidewalk counselor at a clinic in Canada. Gibbons describes what she tells women who are entering the clinic:
“I’ll see a woman who is walking toward the clinic and try to talk to her. I’ve got about seven seconds. Sometimes I’ll say “You do not have to do what you came here to do” or I might say “Did you know your baby’s heart is beating?” I’m not judging them and if she doesn’t stop, if she walks right by, that’s it. We never have more than one counselor approach the woman and we never, ever block her way. She’s anxious enough as it is and it’s unfair to overwhelm her. You don’t have much time, but you try to acknowledge all the pressure and all the circumstances in her life that brought her here.”
Gibbons has “spent most of the past five years in jail serving up to six months at a time.”
In Canada, it is illegal for protesters to go near abortion clinics, even to hold a sign or hand out literature.
A neighborhood said of Gibbons:
“I cannot imagine and I have never heard her say anything abusive or hurtful, let alone scream, yell or swear. That goes for the other picketers as well. It would be out of character from what I have seen of their behaviour.”
Pro-lifers were also arrested for educating public by displaying “obscene signs”
The pro-lifer holding the sign said:
“So I had a picture of a baby and I said “what is the sexual component here? And the poor officer- he was obviously forced to do this- he said the baby was conceived by sex.”
Another woman, (Mrs. Connell) was praying near abortion clinic and was arrested. She has eight children, four of whom are adopted. Two of the adopted children were from Vietman, another two from Brazil. She takes pregnant abandoned teenagers into her home.
As one pro-lifer said of her “She doesn’t just say “have a baby” she gives them a room in her house.”
The Court wanted six months in jail for her.
Meanwhile, the same day:
“Another woman was being sentenced for mischief, you know, vandalism. She had been drunk or on drugs and had caused a huge amount of damage to someone’s property. She had a record as long as her arm and the Crown was looking for three months.”
Leonard Stern “Abortion Wars” The Ottawa Citizen Sun 28 May 2000
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At a trial where a clinic worker was accused of spraying mace on pro-lifers, a woman with babies with told to leave the courtroom.
“Babies have been banned from the courtroom… An incident in which the codirector of a Robbinsville medical clinic sprayed mace at abortion protesters has evolved into an acrimonious showdown this week in Hennepin County District Court…
And in one of the more unusual twists to the case, a mother who identified herself as an abortion opponent was ordered yesterday to remove two infants from the courtroom because of concerns that they would influence the jury…
The mother, however, said her motives were not political. “Maybe they don’t like seeing living babies,” said Mary Friberg sitting on a bench outside the courtroom. “Besides, I couldn’t afford a babysitter.”
Mark Brunswick “Misdemeanor Trial Turns into Abortion Showdown” Minneapolis Star Tribune May 21, 1992
When a law in Michigan was proposed allowing women to see pictures of unborn babies before having abortions, pro-choice groups opposed it and successfully defeated that part of the bill, passing only a watered down version. Said one pro-choicer who opposed requiring women to see the pictures:
“To show a picture of a fetus that is very small, making it look huge, is very harassing.”
Carol Misseldine of Lansing Area Advocates for Choice
“Abortion Bill Toned Down” Lansing (Michigan) State Journal March 6, 1992
This pro-choice activist believes that giving a woman information about her pregnancy and unborn child is “harassing” her. Most informed consent laws don’t even require a woman to look at this information, they merely require her to be offered the opportunity to. And yet pro-choice groups oppose them. Shouldn’t a woman have all the facts before she decides? Is it better for a woman to see a picture of an unborn baby after she has had an abortion and been been lied to or been told the baby was just tissue?
Community Abortion Information and Referral (CAIR) gives women money that they put towards getting their abortions. They only pays part of the abortion cost. These are the things that the author of this article says she tells women who cannot afford their abortions.
“I had to ask women who weren’t as far along if they could delay their procedure another week or two. I counseled one woman to put a $3,000 procedure on her credit card–even though she was unemployed and had no way of making payments…One woman got a payday loan at a 322 percent annual interest rate. I had to ask women if they had any valuables they could sell to the pawnshop, or if it was possible to put off paying some bills for the month.”
Advising women to drive themselves into poverty in order to avoid giving birth to an unwanted child (who could always be given up for adoption) does not truly help them.
sonogram of 22 week old baby- a candidate for this type of abortion
An abortionist describes how hard it is to remove the baby’s skull when doing an abortion.
“When one does a D&E, technically one of the challenges is to remove the fetal skull, partly because it is relatively large, partly because it is relatively calcified, and it is difficult to grasp on occasion.”
Testimony of abortionist Dr Timothy Johnson, National Abortion Federation, et. al. v. Ashcroft, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, March 31, 2004.
