They said it.
From pro-choice activist Maria Romero:
“Sometimes I’m kind of lazy about using my cervical cap … I think it’s wonderful to share the [abortion] experience with my friends.
Janice Perrone. “Controversial Abortion Approach.” American Medical News, January 12, 1990
Share on FacebookPro-abortion writer John A Robertson writes:
“… Abortion destroys an embryo or fetus, and thus displays a willingness to take human life.”
John A Robertson Children of Choice: Freedom and the New Reproductive Technologies (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994) 48
He is one more person active in the pro-choice movement who believes abortion is killing.
Share on FacebookAn article talked about the way clinic escorts at Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa dehumanize pro-life sidewalk counselors:
“It tells the escorts to tape the name of a pro-lifer to the bottom of their shoes and then sing to themselves “Every step you take, every move you make, I’ll be squishing you.” Susan Gellinger of Planned Parenthood says that “This is a very empowering yet non-confrontational thing to do. You know you’ll be symbolically stepping on that person all day.”
Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa’s The Source, Fall 1992. Quoted in the Prayer & Action Newsletter, September 12, 1992.
Share on FacebookOne woman told her story of a forced abortion:
“When I got pregnant again, I was happy and scared at the same time. At 19, I wanted a baby real bad. I didn’t want to hurt my parents, but I didn’t want to kill my baby. I didn’t feel I had a choice.
I waited for a long time, almost 3 months before I called the clinic for an appointment. When I went in for my first appointment, I decided I couldn’t go through with it. They told me to go home and think about it.
I did, but I knew my parents would be so disappointed in me. The next day I went back. I was still upset, but they said I no longer had a choice. I started yelling. I told them I didn’t want the abortion anymore. The doctor got very angry. They gave me a sedative to calm me down, but I kept screaming. I thrashed around trying to get off the table, but the nurses pinned my arms and legs down by leaning on me. Finally they strapped restraints on me. I kept screaming, “I don’t want to kill my baby. Please don’t kill my baby.”
Patricia A Bigliardi Beyond the Hidden Pain of Abortion (Lynnwood, Washington: Women’s Aglow Fellowship International, 1997) 167 – 168
This is the story of just one forced abortion. There have been many more.
A book on post-abortion women cited the following case from The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology:
“An 18-year-old female underwent suction curettage for a suspected pregnancy at 8 weeks duration. She committed suicide three days after the procedure, having expressed guilt about having killed her baby. There had been no pregnancy tissue in the suction specimen, but the patient was never told this.”
Paula Ervin Women Exploited: The Other Victims of Abortion (Huntington, Indiana: Our Sunday Visitor Inc., 1985) 68
Share on FacebookA man named Mike was interviewed while his partner was having an abortion. His baby was being killed in another room.
“You know, you see this stuff in the news where a father’s beatin’ hell out of his kids, or somebody’s found a baby in a trashcan or somethin’. That’s a life. Kim is seven weeks along. I don’t think the baby’s formed at seven weeks. So she’s havin’ an abortion. I’d rather see that then see a child layin’ in the trashcan…
And I don’t want to give the child up. If I was goin’ to have it, I’d have it and keep it myself. If you give it up you don’t know where it’s goin’, and I don’t care to see my child gettin’ into somebody else’s hands.
So we sat down and talked about it. I said, “You better look at it for one thing. You’re not gonna be able to work when you’re about seven months along and then you’d have a baby there. You have to have somebody to babysit.” There’s a lot of things that people don’t know before having babies. So we talked it over and that, and she thought maybe she wanted to have it, a baby, but I told her there’s a lot more to havin’ child than that…
I never thought about abortion before. I’ve seen this antiabortion stuff, but I never paid no attention to it. Then I found out she was pregnant and it hit right away. Maybe have an abortion. So I talked to my sister, she’s a nurse, and she knows her stuff pretty good. She was tellin’ me, she said, it’s not uncommon. She said, “You gotta know what you want to do, but if you don’t want to raise a child, that’s a good choice.”
You know I really like this program; this is really nice. They took us to the first film about birth control, and then they took us to the one where it showed how it’s going to be done. It really set us straight; I was really interested. Boy, Kim had butterflies a lot when we first came this mornin’, but now that we went through all those programs and seen all those films, she really straightened out.”
Carole Dornblaser and Uta Landy, PhD The Abortion Guide: A Handbook for Women and Men (Rockville Center, New York: Playboy Paperbacks 1982) 87 – 88
Share on FacebookA post-abortive woman named Sabrina writes:
“As a sixteen-year-old girl, while I lay there on the abortionist table, I looked over and saw my baby mutilated in the glass container that was connected to the abortion machine , and this image has forever been etched in my mind. As I looked over and saw it, I asked the nurse if that was my baby?
Her reply was, “No, that is not what you think it is; now will you please look the other way?” indicating the direction opposite of my baby … After seeing the visual I got, I knew the “truth” that my baby was mutilated. I cannot imagine the agony this caused my baby, as she died.”
Serena Gaefke 101 Reasons Not to Have an Abortion: A Girl‘s Guide to Informed Choices (2010) 18
Share on FacebookA girl named Kali who was raped at 13 tells her story:
“After I was assaulted and everybody found out that I was, in fact, pregnant, everyone was against [having the baby]. I was assaulted at thirteen. Everyone said, ‘You’re going to ruin your life. You’re making a mistake. It would be so much easier if you got an abortion. You’re too young.’…
Medical staff made inappropriate comments, claiming that the baby would grow up to be a rapist. But Kali said:
“‘No, that’s just not even relevant to him. That has nothing to do with my son. He didn’t choose how he got here. He didn’t choose the man who was his sperm donor.’…
Now that I have been put in that situation, I am totally pro-life. Once you hear that baby’s heartbeat it is an indescribable feeling. It was an emotional time, but it [choosing life] wasn’t honestly that hard of a decision at the time. That’s a life. To me abortion is murder and so I’m totally pro-life completely now that I’ve been put through one of the most horrible situations.”
Kali gives the following message to those who tried to get her to abort:
“In a nice way, I would try to just tell them told you so and I hope that they learned something. I hope that my story will open their eyes so they realize that not everybody has to be pro-abortion in a tragic situation and to realize the beauty behind it — and that baby was totally it for me. That’s what I told everyone — that I’m doing this for him. I hope they change the way they treat people. I hope they start giving women more respect and keep their negative comments to themselves because those really aren’t needed in that stressful time.”
Nancy Flanders “Raped at 13, Kali chose life despite intense pressure to abort her son” Live Action News November 22, 2017
Share on FacebookFrom pro-choice activist Eileen L McDonagh:
“… A fetus making a woman pregnant without consent is similar to a rapist intruding upon and taking another’s body in pursuit of his own interest, to the detriment of the woman’s interests…
Were the fetus to articulate its intentions, presumably it would intend to make and keep a woman pregnant to serve its own interests.”
She also says:
“Even if the fetus were a person, a woman is justified in killing it because of what it does to her when it imposes wrongful pregnancy, whatever might be her personal reasons for doing so…
The distinction between reasons vs. justification for stopping the fetus from imposing pregnancy parallels the distinction between reasons and justification for a woman stopping a man from imposing sexual intercourse on her…
What justifies her right to use deadly force to stop a man from raping her, according to law, is not the reasons she may have for saying no to his imposition on her, but rather the invasiveness of the imposition itself….
Even if the fetus is constructed to be a person, it gains no right to take over a woman’s body against her will… The fetus’s status as human life actually justifies the use of deadly force to stop it from imposing wrongful pregnancy…
Some might suggest that the solution to coercive pregnancy is simply for the woman to wait until the fetus is born, at which point its coercive imposition of pregnancy will cease.
This type of reasoning is akin to suggesting that a woman being raped should wait until the rape is over rather than stopping the rapist.”
Eileen L McDonagh Breaking Abortion Deadlock: from Choice to Consent (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996) 44, 10, 11 – 12
Is the baby below equivalent to a rapist?
Dr. Kirt Hirshorn of New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital, on research using living aborted babies :
“I don’t think [research on an aborted baby, which he calls a “nonviable fetus”] is unethical. It’s not possible to make the fetus into a child, therefore we can consider it nothing more than a piece of tissue.”
Steven Maynard – Moody The Dilemma of the Fetus: Fetal Research, Medical Progress, and Moral Politics (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995) 25
