Pro-Choice Nun Speaks

From a pro-choice nun:

“Every woman has a free will. God gave us free will… That’s what separates us from the beasts. Free will is guided by conscience, and conscience is formed not by dogma, what organized religions tell us, but by experience. A woman will answer to God for one thing: Has she followed her conscience in carrying out God’s will? It’s nobody’s right to tell her what her conscience said to her. That’s what men want to take from us… the right to follow our own conscience.”

Sister Margaret Ellen Traxler quoted in Anna Bonavoglia The Choices We Made: 25 Women and Men Speak out about Abortion (New York: Random House, 1991) 64

10 weeks. Should a woman be able to follow her conscience and do this?
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Orlando Women’s Center Does Abortions Up to 28 Weeks

Here is an ad, courtesy of Priests for Life, advertising to do abortions up to 28 weeks- the third trimester.

Here is a picture of a 28 week old baby

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Peace Activist Describes a Pro-Life “Rescue”

A peace activist tells of her first Rescue – a sit in at an abortion clinic:

“My first rescue was because of an invitation by an acquaintance in 1989. The newspaper told me how judgmental and harassing these people were, and my giving sideline tips on nonviolent tactics prompted this invitation, which I reluctantly accepted. What I discovered during that six hour ordeal and the trial that followed was that these pro-lifers in their purity and absolute abandonment “knew” far more about nonviolence than I did. I learned more from them than I had within the peace movement for 15 years.

The difference was in their genuine concern and focus on the child and her mother. There was nothing even remotely resembling anger or hate toward the abortionist.… This is a purity almost nonexistent in the peace and justice movement, where publicity and long-term effectiveness are often central to an action.”

Carol Crossed “The Seamless Web: The Violence of the Abortion War and a Consistent Life Ethic”

Gary E. McCuen Abortion Violence & Extremism (Hudson, Wisconsin: GEM Publications, 1997) 54 – 55

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100 Lawsuits or Disciplinary Actions Against Planned Parenthood by 1996

According to Mark Crutcher in Lime Five:

“In our research, we were able to identify approximately 100 lawsuits and/or disciplinary board actions against Planned Parenthood facilities, with complaints covering virtually the entire range of problems seen at other abortion clinics. We also found many examples of Planned Parenthood clinics operating in the same filthy conditions, and with the same outrageous practices, as NAF or independent abortion clinics. And again, the dynamics I’ve mentioned elsewhere apply here: the cases we found can be no more than a fraction of what really exists.”

Mark Crutcher  “Lime 5: Exploited by Choice ” (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Incorporated, 1996) 117

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Planned Parenthood Data Shows Few Women Would Have Abortions If They Were Illegal

Planned Parenthood tabulated 745,440 legal abortions in 1973. They claim there was a need for 1,258,000 to 1,745,000 in 1973 to 1974. They also claim there were only 17,000 illegal abortions. This translates to the statistic that only 1.6% of the women with unwanted pregnancies will get an abortion if abortion is illegal

Christopher Tietze et.al. “How Much of the Need Was Met in 1973” in “Provisional Estimates of Abortion Need and Services in the Years Following the 1973 Supreme Court Decisions, United States, Each State and Metropolitan Area” a report by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, PPFA, P. 31 to 36

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Indiana Right to Life And Charitable Activities

One common contention among pro-choice activists is that pro-lifers only care about unborn babies and not about adults or born children. While some pro-lifers focus on abortion because they see it as the greatest human rights injustice of our time, the killing of innocent babies, many of them are active and other causes. For example, here is one survey of members of Indiana Right to Life.

Out of 229 members of Indiana Right to Life:

81 distributed food and clothing

Nearly ¼ donated blood regularly

37 worked in support groups (drugs, alcohol, Suicide)

17 worked in programs for abused women

28 worked in hospitals, clinics, and hospices

116 worked in scouting, youth work, and meals on wheels

176 worked in schools, tutoring, aiding teachers

67 worked in voter registration

75 worked distributing maternity and infant clothing

47 have shared their home with foster children, elderly refugees, pregnant strangers, or the sick

Ruth Ann Hanley “Do Right to Lifers Care Only About the Unborn?” editorial, The Communicator (Indiana Right to Life newsletter) 5 no. 5 (June 1980) As quoted in James T. Burtchaell  “Rachel Weeping: The Case Against Abortion” (San Francisco: Harper and Row 1982) 129

pro-lifers are also dedicated to saving babies like this one
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Planned Parenthood “Shocked” By Dropping Pro-Choice Support

In 2005 the woman’s magazine Glamour ran a story that noted that a 2003 CBS/New York Times poll found that 35% of young women thought that abortion should be available to anyone who wants it (18 – 29) 50% of the women of 1993 thought that

Alexander Sanger of Planned Parenthood:

“I’ve seen the numbers and I find them unbelievably shocking. Isn’t it obvious that young women have to be on the forefront of fighting for their reproductive rights because they’re the ones who need them?”

Susan Dominus “The Mysterious Disappearance of Young Pro-Choice Women” Glamour, August 2005 P 200 – 201

Quoted in Ramesh Ponnauru The Party of Death (Washington DC: Regnery Publishing, 2006) 212

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Abby Johnson Describes Late-Term Abortions

When a woman has a late term abortion, the clinic will send her back to her hotel room with a “delivery bag.” It includes a red biohazard bag, gauze, towels and umbilical cord scissors. Many times the woman will deliver in her hotel room before she can make it back to the abortion facility. They then ask her to cut the umbilical cord, clean herself up and place her dead baby in the biohazard bag. She is then instructed to bring the back up to the abortion clinic so it can be destroyed.

This is abortion, guys. Please pray for conversion.

Abby Johnson, former clinic worker and director

24 week old unborn baby – legal to abort this way
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Abortionists Feel They Are Not Supported by the Pro-Choice Movement

Researcher and writer Rachel MacNair says the following:

“In the 1993 Project Choice survey, abortion doctors were asked if they felt that pro-choice organizations and politicians were doing enough to support those who provide abortion care. Over 78% responded no. That means that almost 4/5 of the 961 abortion doctors who answered feel that they don’t get enough support from the social movement they would most reasonably expect it from.”

Rachel M MacNair, PhD. Achieving Peace in the Abortion War (New York: iUniverse, 2009) 109

This lack of support is one of the reasons why so few abortion providers enter the field. Read more about this here.

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“Partial-Birth Abortion Like Any Other Surgical Procedure” Says Pro-Choicer

Defenders of partial-birth abortions claim that all surgeries were gruesome:

“Much of the negative reaction… Is the same reaction that might be invoked if one were to listen to a surgeon describing step-by-step almost any other surgical procedure involving blood, human tissue, etc.”

Diane Gianelli “Shock Tactic Ads Target Late-Term Abortion Procedure” American medical news, July 5, 1993, 21 from Ramesh Ponnauru The Party of Death (Washington DC: Regnery Publishing, 2006) 45

Here is a diagram series of partial-birth abortions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But perhaps it could be said that partial-birth abortions are no worse than D&E abortions, which is another common late abortion technique. Here is a diagram of the D&E abortion.

 

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