They said it.
Rev. Karen Vannoy pastor , Travis Park United Methodist Church, on their pro-choice stand:
“I am willing,to take whatever heat would be generated by my support of what I think is right and in God’s will.”
Vannoy is a member of the local Planned Parenthood board.
Christianity has always emphasized the importance of responsible decision making, and nothing is more important than the decision of when, or whether, to have children …. one thing I know from the Bible is that Jesus was not against women having a choice in continuing a pregnancy…Jesus was for peace on earth, justice on earth, compassion on earth, mercy on earth, and choice on earth.”
Excerpts from the November 22, 2002 letter by Mark Bigelow, Congregational Church of Huntington, United Church of Christ, Centerport, New York, board member of Planned Parenthood of the Hudson-Peconic and a member of the PPFA Clergy Advisory Board, to Bill O’Reilly of Fox News’ “O’Reilly Factor.”
Rev. Betty Bone Schiess Episcopal Church Priest
“It’s a spiritual rape to deny a woman the right to make a moral and ethical decision, from our tradition, we deeply respect the fact that every member of our faith has the right to make this ethical choice. It’s clearly a violation of the First Amendment, which guarantees men the right to be conscientious objectors during war.”
The Post-Standard, 300,000 Rally for ‘Choice’ leaders claim majority on abortion issue:4-10-1989
“…I wanted to express calmly, eloquently, that pro-choice people understand that there are two lives involved in an abortion — one born (the pregnant woman) and one not (the fetus) — but that the born person must be allowed to decide what is right….”
Anne Lamott, “The Rights of the Born”, Los Angeles Times (Feb. 10,2006)
This article that defends abortion can be found here.
Share on FacebookFrom legal abortion advocate David Boonan:
“Perhaps the most straightforward relation between you and me on the one hand and every human fetus from conception onward on the other is this: all are living members of the same species, Homo sapiens. A human fetus, after all, is simply a human being at a very early stage in her his or her development.”
David Boonan. A Defense of Abortion (Cambridge University Press: New York), P 20. Quoted in on Abortion. (Signal Hill, CA: Stand to Reason, 2008) page 68
Share on Facebook“A facet that makes the obstetrician’s burden unique in the whole field of medicine is his double obligation; he simultaneously cares for two patients, the mother and the infant…The essential step in the initiation of life is by fertilization, the penetration of the ovum by a spermatozoan and the fusion of the two cells into a single cell.”
Dr. Alan Guttmacher, ardent proponent of abortion, in his book Pregnancy and Birth: A Book for Expectant Parents New American Library; Revised Ed edition (January 1, 1962) He was the president of Planned Parenthood and fought to make and keep abortion legal
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David Noonin, in his book, A Defense of Abortion, says the following:
“In the top drawer of my desk, I keep [a picture of my son]. This picture was taken on September 7, 1993, 24 weeks before he was born. The sonogram image is murky, but it reveals clear enough a small head tilted back slightly, and an arm raised up and bent, with the hand pointing back toward the face and the thumb extended out toward the mouth. There is no doubt in my mind that this picture, too, shows [my son] at a very early stage in his physical development. And there is no question that the position I defend in this book entails that it would have been morally permissible to end his life at this point.”
(p. xiv)
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Share on FacebookAuthor Jason Deparle says:
“In fact, we need neither The Silent Scream nor a degree in fetal physiology to tell us what we already know: that abortion is the eradication of human life and should be avoided whenever possible. Should it be legal? Yes, since the alternatives are worse.”
Jason Deparle, “Beyond the Legal Right; Why Liberals and Feminists Don’t like to Talk about the Morality of Abortion,” Washington Monthly Apr. 1989
Share on FacebookPro-Choice activist Miriam Claire wrote a book in which she interviewed abortion providers and women who had had abortions. She said of the providers:
“Physicians are dedicated to the preservation of life. Abortion presents an inherent conflict because it involves stopping a life from developing.”
Miriam Claire “The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue” (New York: Insight Books, 1995) 132
Share on FacebookPro-choice author HG Whittington, M.D. wrote the following about abortion counseling:
“The[ abortion] counselor must help the applicant face a painful existential dilemma; whether to kill one nascent human being in order to enhance the quality of life of another person… society legalizes abortion to enhance the quality of human life.”
This quote appears in Whittington’s essay “The Role of the Counselor in Abortion” Sarah LeWit , editor. “Abortion Techniques and Services: Proceedings of the Conference,” New York, New York; June 3-5, 1971, Amsterdam: excerpta medica. 1972.
