They said it.
“Every woman… has a trauma at destroying a pregnancy… this is a part of her own life. When she destroys the pregnancy, she is destroying herself.”
Dr. Julius Fogel , psychiatrist/obstetrician who has performed over 20,000 abortions
Quoted in “Before you choose” Life Cycle Books (pamphlet) 1999
Share on Facebook“I have never known a woman who, when her baby was born, was not overjoyed that I had not killed it.”
British Abortionist Aleck Bourne. In this career, he aborted more than 5,000 babies. Bourne later became pro-life
Quoted by James Wilkinson. From “A Doctor Speaks” London Express, Jan 25, 1967
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“Is adolescent pregnancy a disease? We have laws regarding other epidemics. We have mandatory immunizations, but we have no laws prohibiting motherhood before the age of 14 in our supposedly civilized society. We ought to mandate against continuing pregnancy in the very young, say, those less than 14 years.”
Minnesota abortionist Jane Hodgeson
Statement made at the May 28, 1980 National Abortion Federation conference in Washington DC. Quoted In American Life League’s Abortion Encyclopedia
Share on Facebook“When, under one roof, the number of dead fetuses mounted to the thousands, the simple fact of death gradually overshadows the significance of individual histories.”
Pro-Choice author Magda Denes, PhD, who observed abortions in one busy hospital while writing a book on the subject
Magda Denes, “Performing Abortions” Commentary magazine October 1976, pages 33 to 37
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“[At] the end of the day, the truth is that when you perform an abortion you are killing something.”
Dr. David Molloy of the Australian Medical Association
Ed Vitagliano “Murder: So What? Film Reveals Growing Callousness Toward Abortion” AFA Journal Nov/Dec 2004
Share on FacebookIn his article “54 Babies” George F. Will documents a shocking case where two children playing outside discovered boxes of aborted fetuses that had been improperly disposed of.
CHINO HILLS, Calif. Where Route 71 crosses over Payton Drive, at the bottom of the steeply sloping embankment, two boys, who were playing nearby, found the boxes. The boys bicycled home and said they had found boxes of “babies.”
Do not be impatient with the imprecision of their language. They have not read the apposite Supreme Court opinions. So when they stumbled on the boxes stuffed with 54 fetuses, which looked a lot like babies, they jumped to conclusions. Besides, young boys are apt to believe their eyes rather than the Supreme Court.
The first count came to a lot less than 54. Forgive the counters’ imprecision. Many fetuses had been dismembered — hands, arms, legs, heads jumbled together — by the abortionist’s vigor. An accurate count required a lot of sorting out.
The fetuses had been dumped here, about 30 miles east of Los Angeles, on March 14, 1997, by a trucker who may not have known what the Los Angeles abortion clinic had hired him to dispose of. He later served 71 days in jail for the improper disposal of medical waste. Society must be strict about its important standards.
What local authorities dealt with as a problem of solid waste disposal struck a few local residents as rather more troubling than that. They started talking to each other, and one thing led to another, and to the formation of Cradles of Love, which had the modest purpose of providing a burial for the 54 babies.
The members of Cradles of Love — just a few normal walking-around middle-class Americans — called them babies, and still do. These people are opposed to abortion, in spite of the Supreme Court’s assurance in 1973 that abortions end only “potential life.” (Twenty-five years later the Supreme Court has not yet explained how a life that is merely “potential” can be ended.)
Some will say the members of Cradles of Love, who are churchgoers, have been unduly influenced by theology. Or perhaps the real culprit is biology. It teaches that after the DNA of the sperm fuse with those of the ovum a new and unique DNA complex is formed that directs the growth of the organism. It soon is called a fetus, which takes in nourishment and converts it to energy through its own distinct, unique organic functioning, and very soon it looks a lot like a baby.
Anyway, theology or biology or maybe their eyes told the members of Cradles of Love that there were some babies in need of burials. So they asked the coroner to give them the fetuses. Then the American Civil Liberties Union was heard from.
It professed itself scandalized by this threat to . . . what? The ACLU frequently works itself into lathers of anxiety about threats to the separation of church and state. It is difficult, however, to identify any person whose civil liberties were going to be menaced if the fetuses were (these are the ACLU’s words) “released to the church groups for the express purpose of holding religious services.” The ACLU said it opposed “facilitation” of services by a public official.
The ACLU’s attack on the constitutionally protected right to the free exercise of religion failed to intimidate, and in October the babies were buried in a plot provided at no charge by a cemetery in nearby Riverside. Each baby was given a name by a participating church group. Each name was engraved on a brass plate that was affixed to each of the 54 small, white, wooden caskets made, at no charge, by a volunteer who took three days off from work to do it. Fifty clergy and four persons active in the right-to-life movement carried the caskets. Each baby’s name is inscribed on a large headstone, also provided at no charge.
Fifty-four doves, provided at no charge by the cemetery, were released at the services.
The ACLU trembled for the Constitution.
We hear much about the few “extremists” in the right-to-life movement. But the vast majority of the movement’s members are like the kindly, peaceable people here, who were minding their own business until some of the results of the abortion culture tumbled down a roadside embankment and into their lives.
Which is not to say that this episode was untainted by ugly extremism. It would be nice if the media, which are nothing if not diligent in documenting and deploring right-to-life extremism, could bring themselves to disapprove the extremism of the ACLU, which here attempted a bullying nastiness unredeemed by any connection to a civic purpose.
Source: Washington Post: December 3, 1998; Page A23
Note: A local man, Charles Lowers, whose own wife was pregnant at the time, was quoted saying: “I was thinking of [the mass graves] in World War II. It brought back that memory of senseless slaughter.”
From “Remains of Aborted Fetuses Buried” CNN Oct 12, 1998
Share on FacebookTo all who haven’t decided…
My due date is 3 days from now… November 29. I would be huge right now… I would be happy. Please, don’t do this. It is a lie. If you have even 1% doubt or have ever thought you couldn’t do this, then please don’t. I am telling you
right now, this is the most painful thing I have ever had to go through, and it is far from over. I am 20 years old. I got pregnant after being with my boyfriend for about one month. I didn’t want to get the abortion, but my boyfriend thought I should. I wasn’t strong enough to stand up for by beliefs. I can’t blame anyone, and I am not trying to. I am simply saying that there are so many more options. This will never go away. I can never take it back. I can never have my baby. I not only took away my child’s life, but also every other person my sweet babies life would have effected. I wish I could have read this 9 months ago. I wish that I would have known… please, don’t pass up your chance to give the most beautiful gift you could… life.
Elaina
Share on Facebookplease to anyone who reads this, this is a guilt you will live with for the rest of your life and when and if you ever do have children you will look at them and and ask your self what if ?
Hi my name is Dani and I am 22 years old until recently I never knew what abortion actually did I have had 2 abortions and I also have 2 children and 2 more on the way and I am with the father of my children. After going through your site I and making my self look at the pictures of the abortion’s I am really suffering from horrible guilt and am hating myself. I am not blaming this site at all I just never knew and I am very very sorry for what I have done. Thank You for having a site like this I pray to God that more women and men who pressure us women to have abortions see this site first before having it done I know it will change there minds. I just pray that God can forgive me for what I have done because I really don’t think I will ever forgive myself. please to anyone who reads this, this is a guilt you will live with for the rest of your life and when and if you ever do have children you will look at them and and ask your self what if ?? Trust me there are plenty of women who cant have children who would give there last breath for your unborn child. Thank You for reading this and having a E-mail for me to write it to.
Share on FacebookI recently had an abortion, 12/4/2001 to be exact. At
the time I felt it was the best choice because the man was married and I already had a nine year old. In my heart I can admit to myself that I wanted the baby but because of thinking about everybody else except my innocent baby I had an abortion. I sat in the waiting room , waiting for someone to come and rescue me but they never did. As I lay on the cold table all I could do is pray and ask for God to forgive me. I am still praying for forgivness. This has been traumatic for me but I wear the mask that everything is fine and the minutes, hours, and days have passed and it still hurts like it was today. I can no longer talk about it
I am almost frantic.
GA
Share on Facebook“I know I took things harder than most, but I’ll never forget the sounds, I don’t feel anyone human could…”
I don’t think I’m ready for this, but I need someone to hear me. I’m almost 20, and had an abortion last Friday. I’d read the site, but abortion was never really an issue in my heart, I wanted my baby, my boyfriend however did not. After two years, you don’t think someone could really leave you over a baby, especially their own, but now I know that’s where we get single mom’s. So what were my reasons? I looked at how it would effect everyone except for myself and MY BABY. I never even thought about myself (I didn’t think anyone cared). Most women hear their baby’s heart beat as a first step in pregnancy. I saw my baby on my first visit to the abortion clinic. At 14 weeks, I already wanted to hold it, it was so much bigger than I thought, so defined. I watched my baby’s fast heart beat, it’s little chest rise and fall, and I watched it kick as she moved the ultrasound wand. My baby. I’ll take that image to my grave. The next day I returned for the operation, why? Because two people took time off work to take me, not because I wanted to be there. I know I took things harder than most, but I’ll never forget the sounds , I don’t feel anyone human could. I didn’t judge any of the girls in the recovery room for their decisions, but it hurt me that most of them showed no remorse and instead, relief. I live now in regret. And there’s nothing I can do. I read another letter in your columns, a girl stated that she’d killed someone and it was legal. I too questioned why I wasn’t in jail. It was even worse than killing your neighbor, I killed my baby. I could not wish my experience on my worst enemy. I know I’m not stable right now, but I just want to help ONE person, only one if I could.. LISTEN TO YOUR HEART, you can do it! There are organizations to help you, and most of all support is almost anywhere if you look… I know that now. I am on the road to recovery, coping with my decision, but forever a piece of my heart will of been left at that clinic.
Good luck.
H.L. 11/6/99