They said it.
“Despite its capacity to attract major public interest and sustain bitter public debate, abortion is not a serious moral issue. It is not possible to justify, in general secular terms, holding embryos and fetuses to be persons.”
H Tristram Englehardt, the Foundations of Bioethics (New York: Oxford University press, 1986) 242
“This Mother’s Day I just want to take a moment to honor the amazing mothers who choose abortion. Often, these women face deep stigmatization and demonization. “
May 13, 2011 Mother’s Day Message, “I Had an Abortion” facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/pages/I-Had-An-Abortion/138570696250541
Glanville Williams, pro-choice activist in Britain:
“Many doctors attempt to avoid what they consider to be the unsavory connotations of the word “abortion” by speaking instead of the terms of “termination of pregnancy.”
Glanville Williams, the Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law, the 1956 James S Carpenter Lectures at Columbia Law School (New York: Knopf, 1957) 147
Psychologist Robert Lifton, in his book about Nazi doctors at the camps
“The language used gave Nazi doctors a discourse in which killing is no longer killing; and need not be experienced, or even perceived as killing.”
Robert J Lifton, the Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (New York: basic books, 1986) 445
Share on FacebookBrenda Peterson:
“[abortion is] a sacred act of compassion.”
Brenda Peterson, “Sister Against Sister” New Age Journal, September/October 1993: 143
“Valentin” Falthauser, who killed hundreds of disabled people prior to the Holocaust, explained that for him the:
“the decisive motive was compassion.”
Michael Burleigh, Death and Deliverance: Euthanasia in Germany 1900 – 1945 (New York: Cambridge University press, 1994) 277
Share on FacebookPro-choice activist Ginette Paris:
“[abortion is] an expression of maternal responsibility …..[A woman must] sacrifice [the unborn] to a higher cause, namely, the love of children and the refusal to see them suffer.”
Ginette Paris, The Sacrament of Abortion (Dallas: Spring, 1992) 8, 107
In the 1994 issue of Mother Jones, D Redman had a chemical abortion. She said, when the blood began:
“At last, the blood I’ve been praying for. I look at the other women around me and think how glorious we are in our rebellion… My life feels luxuriant with possibility. For one precious moment, I believe that we have the power to dismantle the system. I finish the march, borne along by the women.”
D Redman, “The Choices,” Mother Jones, January/February 1994: 35
“[I]n the relevant respects, a fetus, even a fully developed one, is considerably less personlike than is the average mature mammal, indeed the average fish… [I]f the right to life is based upon [the unborn’s] resemblance to a person, then it cannot be said to have any more right to life then, let us say, newborn guppy.”
Mary Anne Warren, “On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion,” Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine, editors John Arras and Robert Hunt (Palo Alto, CA: Mayfield, 1977) 172 – 173
“I probably hopped out of the chair and started screaming and pacing. I was very, very angry.”
Debbie McKenney, chair of Pittsburgh NARAL Pro-Choice America, on what she did when she saw a commercial about adoption
Marvin Olasky,” The War on Adoption,” National Review, June 7, 1993
Dr. Thomas Darrow, Christian abortionist:
“When I felt the world was going against me, or perhaps I should try to go with the flow a bit more, as a Christian, as a follower of Jesus Christ, I started studying his life and really Jesus Christ did not go with the flow.… So when I think about that, it [the decision to provide abortions] almost becomes a religious experience, it really does.”
Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) 179
Dr. James Pendergraft, who does abortions up to 28 weeks:
“I have read the Bible. I go to church. I don’t read in the Bible what (abortion protesters) read, I know morally what I am doing is right. If a woman doesn’t want to be a mother, she shouldn’t have to be.”
St. Petersburg Times, Dr. Determined: 12-16-1998, Quoted by Life Dynamics
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