From the book Swimming Against the Tide, a book of feminist essays against abortion. Bobbi Sykes a black Australian woman, was at a televison interview with a pro-choice feminist who was white. She describes their conversation:
“A male interviewer organized a prominent white movement woman to debate the subject with me on television. Unfortunately, the woman used the opportunity to scream at me that I wasn’t the right sort of black, and that I didn’t have a dozen children and live in the creek bed at Alice Springs… That I, representing an opinion of the black community, brazenly dared to confront and oppose an option of the white community, was sufficient to crack the veneer over the movement woman’s racism, and through that crack spewed forth the most virulent and racist comments that I had heard publicly for some time… privately, many similar events occur constantly.”
Ramazanoglu, C . “Feminism and the Contradictions of Oppression” (Routledge , London, 1989) 191, quoting Sykes cap B. in Rowland, R. “Women Who Do and Women Who Don’t Join the Women’s Movement” (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1984) 64
“Swimming Against the Tide: Feminist Dissent on the Issue of Abortion” edited by Angela Kennedy (Dublin Ireland: Four Courts Press, 1997)
“… [Pro-choicers] cannot look at their handiwork or the handiwork they defend. Across the country, they shrink from photos of the babies killed in abortions. Through their mighty political groups, the pro-abortionists compel TV stations to refuse advertisements showing partial birth and other abortion artifacts. They will not even allow viewers (or themselves, I suspect) to see what their policies have wrought. They are, at least to my mind, like the Germans who refuse to think about what was happening in Dachau and then vomited when they saw – and never wanted to see again.”
Jewish columnist Ben Stein in the May 1998 issue of American Spectator magazine
Pieces of an aborted baby at just eight weeks after conception. pro-abortion activists don’t want you to see pictures like this.
Gregg Cunningham “Abortion Is a Form of Genocide” in Mary E Williams. Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints (San Diego, California: Greenhaven Press, 2002)
“A woman came back at 20 weeks and told us there was a baby’s foot in her womb. I know of other cases when a woman, after having an abortion, would call back and say “I just passed a foot” or “I just passed a hand.”
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Eric Pastuszek. Is the Fetus Human? (Rockford, Illinois: Tan books And Publishers Inc., 1991) P 15
When discussing abortion, many journalists act as though they don’t know whether an unborn baby/fetus is a human being, or whether abortion is murder. In some cases, they blatantly deny the humanity of the unborn child. But sometimes, in stories that are about babies but not about abortion, they let slip that they really know exactly what a “fetus” is.
A Time magazine article arguing against drug use during pregnancy says:
“Courts will never be able to ensure real protection to an unborn child. That will have to come from mothers who take responsibility for the lives they carry within them.”
Barbara Cornell, “Do the Unborn Have Rights?” Time, Special Fall Edition, 1990, 23
Quoted in Randy Alcorn “Pro-life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments” (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2000)
Philip Ney developed a therapeutic treatment program called Hope Alive: Postabortion And Abuse Treatment, an inpatient program:
he says:
“People who have had an abortion are more likely to abuse their children and people who have been abused are more likely to have an abortion… Abortion results in more postpartum depression and therefore less bonding, less touching and less breast-feeding… It should be noted that one of the earliest arguments was that aborting unwanted children would diminish the incidence of child abuse. Statistics show precisely the opposite; that is, with more frequent abortions, all kinds of child abuse have increased.”
He added
“Child mistreatment and abortion are both cause-and-effect, one of the other. Abortion also runs in families, with mothers and grandmothers for three to four generations having had abortions often for the same reasons.”
Ney P, Peeters A. Hope alive: Postabortion And Abuse Treatment. A Training Manual for Therapists “Victoria, British Columbia: Pioneer Publishing, 1993)
Abortionist Tommy Tucker (read a first-hand account from one of his clinic workers here) opened his own Birmingham clinic, four years prior to speaking with The Atlanta Journal and Constitution. The paper reported that Tucker spends thousands of dollars lobbying the Alabama Legislature and fighting abortion restrictions in Mississippi:
“It started out as a financial thing,” Tucker told the paper, “But I got heavy into the [abortion rights] movement and realized there was a lot of need for physicians. We’re trying to make the people that are here on the earth have a better chance at success in life. We think we help a lot of people.”
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The article describes Tucker as a person who considers himself as much a capitalist as a crusader and says he makes about $ 200,000 a year, which he says is low for obstetricians. He hopes income from all six clinics will eventually push his annual income to $ 700,000.
Tucker described himself to the paper as having
“a tremendous ego but being tremendously insecure,” and he says much of that insecurity is rooted in fear of financial ruin.”
“Abortion doctor says it’s the cause, and the cash that keeps him driving”The Atlanta Journal and Constitution,May 16, 1993
Dr. Tucker eventually lost his license for a fatal botched abortion where he refused to help a woman who was bleeding to death, leaving her with an untrained clinic employee. Read the story here.
Dr. James Pendergraft IV has a sign outside his clinic advertising late-term abortions. The sign reads:
“Women’s Gynecological Services Terminations from 3 to 28 weeks.”
Wanting to hide the fact that third trimester abortions were taking place in the facility, some pro-choice activists wanted him to remove the sign. He refused:
“Change my mind? No. It’s a free country… It doesn’t matter if there’s a sign out there or not. People know what I do.….”.
Later in the article, he states:
“If I weren’t here, these women wouldn’t have this choice. A lot of doctors and hospitals won’t deal with abortions.”
Dr. Pendergraft performs abortions at four different clinics.
