They said it.
“We like to think that having an abortion is a religious experience, but not always.”
Abortion providers, in the post-“16 and Loved” The Abortioneers April 3, 2012 http://abortioneers.blogspot.com/2012/04/about-year-ago-we-blogged-about-no-easy.htm
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“I became a mother seven months ago. By giving birth, I feel I made a solemn promise. I will be responsible for the physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being of this beautiful little creature for the next 18 years and beyond. I will put her needs first, I will always think about her welfare, I will make sacrifices for her. This is the promise we celebrate on Mother’s Day. Many women keep this promise by having abortions.”
Nancy Stanwood, MD, “In the Shadow of Mother’s Day” Salon Magazine May. 10, 2008
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2008/05/shadow-mothers-day
“The fetus is indeed a wondrous part of our humanity; we are drawn to it is part of the ongoing mystery of who we are.… There is, of course, a danger in over romanticizing fetal life or defining its value primarily in relation to our selves.”
Frances Kissling “Is There Life after Roe? How to Think about the Fetus” in Krista Jacob. Abortion under Attack: Women on the Challenges Facing Choice (Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2006) 99
“Politically, I have to be pro-choice. Black and white thinking about something as important as life is not wise.”
Lauri Wollner in her essay explaining why she is pro-choice entitled “Tiny, Golden Feet” in Krista Jacob. Abortion under Attack: Women on the Challenges Facing Choice (Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2006) 166
“The general public may believe that women who have abortions are turning their backs on “life”, as though the only life involved is that of the potential baby. In my experience as an abortion provider, I know that, really, they are turning toward life in the most responsible way they know how.”
Margaret R Johnston “We Have Met the Enemy, and She/He Is Us”
Krista Jacob. Abortion under Attack: Women on the Challenges Facing Choice (Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2006) 78
Margaret R Johnston, clinic worker, says the following to her readers in her essay “We Have Met the Enemy, and She/He Is Us”:
“I hope you count yourself among the 37% of all women who has had an abortion or the 85% of partners who have been involved in the abortion decision, or the friend of someone who confided in you and shared her abortion story, or even one of the lucky parents who actually got to be involved in your daughter’s pregnancy decision. If so, you are fortunate enough to experience one of life’s most eye-opening moments – and you know.”
Krista Jacob. Abortion under Attack: Women on the Challenges Facing Choice (Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2006) 77
“It [abortion] does stop a beating heart, but it also keeps another one going: the heart and the life of each woman who chooses it.”
Merle Hoffman, on the Issues, Winter 1996, Tamara L Roleff. Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints (San Diego, Greenhaven Press, 1997) 55
“Banning abortion is like rape – the violent assertion of male domination and male supremacist society over women, the forceful and violent control of women’s bodies, in the most personal dimensions. Banning abortion means oppression of women by force of law in the state. It is institutionalized violence against women.”
Revolutionary Worker, “A Revolutionary Communist Viewpoint on Abortion and Women’s Liberation” January 15, 1995
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“[A] metaphor that counters the devaluation of women by antiabortion forces can be found in Alien, that ultimate sci-fi horror story of the reproductive cycle. In the film, the offspring of an unwanted pregnancy is portrayed as an intruder into the last frontier of inner space, resembling a penis with teeth bursting out of the chest cavity in a kind of equal opportunity cesarean. Has there ever been a more graphic statement of the unspoken facts of fertility?… Whatever moral status may be ascribed to an unborn child – alien invader, innocent human being, or a person with a right to life – no one has the right to use another’s body as a life-support system without her consent. It is time to recognize the murder case against abortion for what it is: a stupendous vaudeville of moral folly.”
Paul Savoy, Tikkun, September/October 1993 Tamara L Roleff. Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints (San Diego, Greenhaven Press, 1997) 46
“… the pro-life movement persists in pretending that aborting a zygote or embryo is the same as “killing a baby.” A small mass of developing cells is not a baby; it hasn’t the neural mass, organization, or experience to have much sentience. For early pregnancy, when most abortions occur, supposing otherwise is far-fetched speculation.”
Byron Bradley Carrier, Human Quest, September/October 1993 in Tamara L Roleff. Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints (San Diego, Greenhaven Press, 1997) 43
