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“Personhood begins when the bearer of life, the mother, makes a covenant of love with the developing life within her to bring it to birth. It is in the nature of things that woman creates the ‘soul’ just as much as she nourishes the body of developing human life.”

Abortion advocate Marjorie Reiley Maguire, in the March/April 1984 ‘Catholics’ for a Free Choice (CFFC) newsletter Conscience. Also quoted in Mary Meehan. “The Maguires Bring Abortion Issue to a Turbulent Boil.” National Catholic Register, May 27, 1984, pages 1 and 7

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“I don’t care if you are in high school or the fetus is unhealthy or it’s a boy and you want a girl. If you don’t want your baby, I don’t want your baby.”

Copy Editor Carolyn Hax of the Washington Post, quoted in Stephen Settle. “There’s No Middle Ground.” National Catholic Register, April 25, 1993, page 5

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“What kind of “respect for life” is it that justifies making women into breeders against their will? The real “disrespect for human life” is the harm done to women, to whole families, and to unwanted children by anti-abortion laws.”

Essays by Caroline Lund entitled “Why Abortion is Not Murder” and “Abortion and Respect for Life” in a 24-page booklet entitled “Abortion Rights in Danger!” [New York City: Pathfinder Press], December 1976

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“Abortion is never a single issue. It is a complex tapestry of all the things we believe about race, class, gender, and justice. It is also about sexuality, relationships, and love.”

Pro-Choice activist Frances Kissling, President of Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC), quoted in “The Future of Roe v. Wade: Political.” Ms. Magazine, January/February 1998, page 77

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“Pregnancy begins when a woman is comfortable with its beginning. It depends on your own personal views and what you want to believe.”

Jennifer Kessell, a spokeswoman for Roberts Pharmaceuticals, the Canadian manufacturer of Preven, quoted in Celeste McGovern. “Marketers of the Preven ‘Morning After Pill’ Are Engaged in Re-Defining Pregnancy.” The Report News magazine, December 6, 1999. Also quoted in the December 9, 1999 issue of American Life League’s Communique.

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[Opposing abortion] is the same mind-set that opposes the notion of women working. It’s a view that doesn’t reflect reality and ignores the concept that women are contributing members of society.”

Excerpts from Jane Fonda’s keynote speech during the annual Utahns for Choice dinner at the downtown DoubleTree Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah, on June 27, 2000.

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“To sentence a woman to bear a child against her will is an unspeakable violation of her rights…Such a sentence represents the sacrifice of the actual to the potential, of a real human being to a piece of protoplasm, which has no life in the human sense of the term. It is sheer perversion of language for people who demand this sacrifice to call themselves ‘right-to-lifers.’ “

Leonard Peikoff in his book Objectivism in the Chapter on Government

 

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“… having a full set of human DNA does not give the zygote full human rights – including the right not to be aborted during its gestation. Don’t believe me? Here, try this: reach up to your head, grab one strand of hair, and yank it out. Look at the base of the hair. That little blob of tissue at the end is a hair follicle. It also contains a full set of human DNA. …Your hair follicle shares everything in common with a human zygote except that it is a little bit bigger and it is not a potential person. (These days even that’s not an absolute considering our new-found ability to clone humans from existing DNA, even the DNA from a hair follicle.)”

Brian Elroy McKinley, author of “Why Abortion is Biblical” in his essay “Why Abortion is Moral” as cited in Abortion: Opposing Viewpoints published by Greenhaven Press, 2002

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“For many women, abortion currently acts as an essential back-up to contraception, necessary to enable them to regulate their fertility and plan their families… In this context, it is inappropriate for abortion to be considered as a problem – rather it is a solution to a problem.”

“Defending Abortion in Law and Practice” Ann Furedi and Ellie Lee, March 1, 2001 “Pro-Choice Forum”

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“I, along with countless other people, believe abortion is a positive moral good and a blessing for women. It’s an act that empowers them, literally saves their lives, saves their existing or future children’s lives, protects and improves their health and that of their families, gives women back their chosen lives, enables them to pursue their career and educational aspirations, improves their economic prospects, allows them to better themselves, gives them a level playing field in the public sphere with men, and enables them to truly attain and exercise liberty and other constitutional freedoms. How can anything that saves women’s lives and gives them hope and freedom be “bad”?…Abortion is inextricably intertwined with pregnancy and motherhood – that is, good mothers will have both babies and abortions.”

Joyce Arthur, Pro-Choice feminist, Open Letter to William Saletan. “Your’s is a “War” We Cannot Support” January 29, 2006. See http://www.prochoiceactionnetwork-canada.org/articles/arthur-saletan.shtml

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