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“Consumerish” Pregnancy and Abortion

A woman who became pregnant with twins while using in vitro aborted one twin and kept the other. She said:

“If I had conceived these twins naturally, I wouldn’t have reduced this pregnancy, because you feel like if there’s a natural order, then you don’t want to disturb it. But we created this child in such an artificial manner – in a test tube, choosing an egg donor, having the embryo placed in me – and somehow, making a decision about how many to carry seemed to be just another choice. The pregnancy was all so consumerish to begin with, and this became yet another thing we could control.”

Ruth Padawer “The Two Minus One Pregnancy” New York Times Magazine, August 2011

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“They Treated me Like Meat”

They put me on hold for 30 minutes, didn’t return promised phone calls & generally treated me like meat. Yes, you can get free birth control from them but believe it or not there are OTHER free clinics where you’re not just a number. They just take a little more digging to find.

A patient’s complaint about Planned Parenthood,

http://www.yelp.com/biz/planned-parenthood-golden-gate-san-francisco

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Demonstration will bring out “every crazy in the world”

In anticipation of a pro-life rally schedule that one of her clinics, the owner says:

“It’ll be a circus. There will be pro-choice escorts, but there will also be those pro-choice crazy ones that just like to go to a demonstration. There’s crazy groups in pro-choice: socialists. I mean, it will bring out every crazy in the world.”

James D Slack Abortion, Execution, and the Consequences of Taking Life (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2009) 48

See pictures of demonstrations here. (graphic photos)

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Judith Timson of the Star on Abortion

From a pro-choice author:

The women I know who have had abortions are not ashamed of a difficult choice they made, but they don’t revel in it either. I asked a friend whether she would talk about it. “Absolutely not,” she said. “This is a story with a lot of pain and even after all these years, few people know.”

Most women who choose an abortion don’t do so because they’ve been raped or because of severe fetal abnormalities, she continued. “They do it for the same reason I did. It just was not the right time or circumstance in which to be pregnant.”

Judith Timson “Abortion tell-alls are a trap: Timson” The Star July 10, 2013

Abortion is difficult even for pro-choice women because the guilt of killing your own child will be made manifest, even when a woman lies to herself that what she did was okay.

To see what a baby of this age looks like after he or she is aborted, go here.

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Life Should Not Always Be Preserved (Revolutionary Worker)

“Is it true that a fetus is a form of life? Of course it is. It is made up of live cells, it is growing and processing energy, it has the capacity to mature and reproduce, it has a genetic system and so on.

Will an abortion destroy this form of life? Yes, absolutely. …

Just because something has the characteristics of “life” doesn’t mean people should necessarily preserve it. This is an obvious truth. Think about it: People routinely terminate “life” for what is seen as a greater good. We do this every time we eat—all the fruits, vegetables, and meats come from live plants and animals killed for our nourishment. People end “life” every time we cut a tree for firewood, every time we take antibiotics to kill off the live disease organisms which are making us sick, or even every time we kill other human beings in self-defense or to prevent them from causing other human beings to suffer and die.”

What Is an Abortion and Why Women Must Have the Right to Choose–Life Cannot and Should Not Always Be Preserved
by A.S.K. Revolutionary Worker, January 23, 2005

This nine week old unborn baby is representative of the majority of abortions in America. She is not a plant, germ or animal, she is a human being.

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Catholics for Free Choice on Men and Abortion

Catholics for Free Choice (A pro-abortion Catholic group) members Marjorie Reiley Maguire and Daniel C. Maguire gave the following advice to women seeking abortions:

“Nor is [abortion] a question of the man’s rights. You have no moral obligation to consult him or to consider his desire that you continue the pregnancy.”

Marjorie Reiley Maguire and Daniel C. Maguire. “Abortion: A Guide to Making Ethical Decisions.” ‘Catholics’ for a Free Choice, September 1983.

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Dr. Martin Haskell on Dismemberment

Abortionist Martin Haskell originated the D&X (partial birth) procedure because:

“… most surgeons find dismemberment [i.e., D&E] at twenty weeks and beyond to be difficult due to the toughness of fetal tissues at this stage of development.”

Martin Haskell, M.D. “Dilatation and Extraction for Late Second Trimester Abortion.” National Abortion Federation conference proceedings Second Trimester Abortion: From Every Angle, September 13-14, 1992, Dallas, Texas

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Abortion is “Death Experience” for Men

University of Maryland psychologist Arnold Medvene:

“Abortion is one of the major death experiences that men go through. It resurrects very important, very primitive issues, memories, and feelings.”

Tamar Jacoby. “Doesn’t a Man Have Any Say?” Newsweek Magazine, May 23, 1988, pages 74 and 75.

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Planned Parenthood Laments 400 Babies Saved From Abortion

“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. The law required 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.

Jill Stanek “Abortion numbers down in AZ, but Planned Parenthood still does 90%; laments 400 “real children” who may survive

HOWARD FISCHER “Cause of abortions drop in state disputed” Yuma Sun Oct. 12, 2011

8weekbluebackground — unborn baby at 8 weeks- common age for an abortion

See what babies at this age look like when they are aborted.

I wonder if when they get older any of those children will look back on this article and wonder why Planned Parenthood is so unhappy they are alive.

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Abortionist Describes Women’s Ambivalence

“She doesn’t want to have an abortion, but she doesn’t want to have a baby. That’s what I think people need to understand. You can be ambivalent about abortion and still decide to have one. And you can be ambivalent about abortion and still be pro-choice. Lots of people are.”

Renée Chelian, quoted Anna Quindlen “The Clinic: a No Spin Zone” Newsweek, October “16, 2006

Dr. Chelian run the Northland Family Planning Center, an abortion and family planning clinic

Pro-lifers need to encourage women to listen to that little voice that tells them that abortion is wrong. I believe that deep down, everyone knows that abortion is killing. Women who come to the clinic ambivalent may still have their minds changed by sidewalk counselors. Many pro-choice people as well have deep ambivalence about abortions. Often, the more a person knows about abortion, the more uneasiness they feel about it.

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