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“Cherie Blair can call herself a feminist all she likes, but any feminist worth her salt would have made a point of having a termination when she got knocked up the last time. Wantonly giving birth to a fourth child on a planet buckling under the strain of overpopulation certainly isn’t any sort of example to set for gymslip mums, who can at least plead ignorance and rampant fertility.”

Julie Burchill, British feminist and abortion advocate, from “Abortion: still a dirty word” in The Guardian, 5/25/2005

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“A developing fetus is biologically alive. It grows and changes rapidly, but these characteristics do not make it alive as a person.”

Steven Maynard-Moody, The Dilemma of the Fetus: Fetal Research, Medical Progress, and Moral Politics (St. Martins Press: New York) 1995, p 74

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“[T]he abortion patient has a right not only to be rid of the growth, called a fetus, in her body, but also has a right to a dead fetus. . . [I] never have any intention of trying to protect the fetus, if it can be saved…”

Dr. Robert Crist, abortion doctor, testifying in Federal Court in 1980.

Thomas J Marzen, “the Supreme Court on Abortion: Doctor Knows Best” the national right to life news, June 30 1983, 15

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“The practice of abortion is unrelated to the status of the fetus – it hinges totally on the aspirations and needs of women…If fetuses did have a right to live, one could make an equal case for the right of unwanted fetuses not to live. This is alien to the anti-choice assumption that all life is precious and should be encouraged and preserved at any cost. In the real world, however, some people commit suicide because they no longer want to live, and others wish they’d never been born….”

Pro-Choice Action Network, “The Fetus Focus Fallacy” Joyce Arthur

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“Besides, a fetus is not a baby. With its assault on basic science, including evolution, and its intentionally misleading and grotesque signs, the fundamentalist movement has misled many into imagining that aborted fetuses are cute little babies just waiting to be cuddled….Since there is no way these fetuses could become fully formed, independent human beings except as a subordinate part of a woman’s overall biological processes for nine months, declaring that they all should be preserved means reducing women to incubators and slaves to their biology. ..The simple truth is that a woman who cannot control her own reproduction has no more freedom than a slave. And if half of humanity is not free, then no one can truly be free.”

The World Can’t Wait: Drive Out the Bush Regime” Last Clinic Standing by Sunsara Taylor, 7/13/06

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“There should not be the slightest communal concern when a woman elects to destroy the life of her thousandth-of-an-ounce embryo. But all society should rise up in alarm when it hears that a baby that is not wanted is about to be born.”

Abortion Advocate Garrett Hardin

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“What if our mothers had aborted us? We wouldn’t have existed. So what? Things that don’t exist have no opinions one way or another. To be blunt, it’s a stupid and pointless argument and anyone who actually thinks that it’s a good one deserves to be ridiculed.”

I’mNotSorry.net

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“As the procedure was performed, basking in the supportiveness of the female nurses, I felt I was acting in synch with a grand tradition of women before me.”

Greta’s Story, I’mNotSorry.net

 

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My husband and I have been together for over three years, we love each other very much, we have a beautiful home, and almost everything we ever wanted. I say almost because we are young, there are so many things we want to do with our lives before we settle in to raise a family. Neither of us are ready to have a child, so we chose to end my pregnancy, we didn’t have to discuss this decision for days, it was the right one. I don’t believe that I should carry a child to term if I don’t want to, people preach about adoption. Not an option. I didn’t want anything growing inside me. I didn’t want to deal with the changes to my body, my lifestyle, my hormones, my job.”

Elizabeth’s Story, I’mNotSorry.net

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“Myself, I’d as soon weep over my taken tonsils or my absent appendix as snivel over [“My abortions! All five of them.”] I had a choice, and I chose life – mine.”

Julie Burchill, British feminist and abortion advocate, from “Abortion: still a dirty word” in The Guardian, 5/25/2005

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