They said it.
President of Catholics for Free Choice, Frances Kissling:
“The Catholic religion makes the fetus into an icon, a figure of religious veneration, which I think is sick, really sick.”
Ron Brackin. “‘Sister’ Frances Kissling: Cardinal of Death.” Liberty Report, January 1987.
Share on FacebookLaw Professor John Hart Ely, who is affiliated with Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School says the following about Roe v. Wade:
Roe “is not constitutional law and gives almost no sense of an obligation to try to be….What is frightening about Roe is that this superprotected right is not inferable from the language of the Constitution, the framers’ thinking respecting the specific problem in issue, any general value derivable from the provisions they included, or the nation’s governmental structure. Nor is it explainable in terms of the unusual political impotence of the group judicially protected visàvis the interest that legislatively prevailed over it.… At times the inferences the Court has drawn from the values the Constitution marks for special protection have been controversial, even shaky, but never before has its sense of an obligation to draw one been so obviously lacking.”
“The Wages of Crying Wolf: A Comment on Roe v. Wade,” 82 Yale Law Journal 920, 935937 (1973)
He is pro-choice.
Share on FacebookIn a book that is intended to train abortion clinic workers, there is this statement on a D&E abortion:
“Identifiable fetal parts are removed. This technique requires skill and is seen as being technically and aesthetically difficult.”
Joanna Brien, Ida Fairbairn Pregnancy and Abortion Counseling (London: Routledge, 1996) 49
A diagram of a D&E
Mary Ann Bailey, pro-choice, commenting on aborting babies with down syndrome:
“Most people are not analytical thinkers; they tend to know what they want to do and then look for justifications.”
Mary Ann Bailey “Why I Had Amniocentesis” in E Parens and A Asch (eds.) Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2000) 70
She explains how many women having abortions want to abort, and make the decision, and then look for reasons to support that decision.
Share on FacebookPatricia A Bigliardi tells her abortion story. She writes about what happened when she told her husband she was pregnant. Before she told him, she was happy about the pregnancy. When she told her husband, he said:
“Are you serious? You’re kidding, right?” His voice strained the words out as my eyes darted to the expansive windows. “This is probably the worst time for us to have to deal with a new baby.” The irritation in his voice was unmistakable. “I can’t believe it. How could this have happened?”
Suddenly the smile I’d had all morning vanished.
Kelly lowered his voice but there was no warmth in it. “Pat, I don’t want another baby.” The finality of his words lay between us like a gravestone. “Listen, I’ll support your decision either way, but I want you to know I don’t want this baby.”…
The drive home from the doctor’s office earlier that morning had been filled with such expectation. Weaving through the soft undulating foothills that escort Highway 280 from Los Altos to San Jose, I had allowed my happiness to bubble to the surface. A baby. How I longed to have another child: to feel the warmth of its body as I held it close, to watch its small mouth sucking at my breast, to smell the sweetness of mother’s milk on its breath. I wanted to shout to the world, “I’m pregnant!” Emotions ran together: elation, joy, jubilation, wonder. A new life had begun to form in me.”
She had the abortion, and later regretted it deeply.
Patricia A Bigliardi Beyond the Hidden Pain of Abortion (Lynnwood, Washington: Women’s Aglow Fellowship International, 1997) 11, 12
Share on FacebookPro-Choice activist Virginia Ramey Mollenkott writes:
“Anti-abortionists claim that fetal personhood is a biological fact rather than a theological perspective.
However, the fetus is human only in the sense that any part of a human body is human: Every cell carries the full genetic code (a severed hand is genetically human, as well, but we do not call it a person)….six hundred million sperm are “aborted” in every masturbation or wet dream.”
Virginia Ramey Mollenkott “Respecting the Moral Agency of Women.” Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights pamphlet
Below: picture of preborn baby at 10 weeks, still in the first trimester. Is he the same as a severed hand?
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg:
“Roe, I believe, would have been more acceptable as a judicial decision if it had not gone beyond a ruling on the extreme statute before the court. … Heavyhanded judicial intervention was difficult to justify and appears to have provoked, not resolved, conflict.”
North Carolina Law Review, 1985
Quoted in:
TIMOTHY P. CARNEY “In criticizing Roe, Sessions aligns with most legal scholars” Washington Examiner 1/10/17
Share on FacebookA book that instructs abortion clinic workers in how to counsel women before their abortions and help them decide what to do cites a study that shows:
48% of women who showed up at the abortion facility had already made a clear decision as to whether to have an abortion- they were sure of their choice to abort
32% were ambivalent about having an abortion
20% were unprepared to make a decision and needed more time
MJ Hare and J. Hayward “Counselling of women seeking abortion” Journal of Biological Science 1981 13: 269-271
From the book:
“This leaves an estimated 52% that could benefit from counseling.”
Joanna Brien, Ida Fairbairn Pregnancy and Abortion Counseling (London: Routledge, 1996) 55
Share on FacebookFrom a young woman who was pressured by her parents to have an abortion:
“ok yeah i also dont believe in abortions but seein i was so young i didn’t have a say in it, my parents set it all up and i just went along with it, i was so young i only had just turned 17 but gee calling me a murderer before a baby has a heart beat is kinda stupid seeing the baby couldn’t be killed because the baby neither had a heart or brain, i can’t believe how childish people can be, its not them that had to go through the abortion it was hard for me because in those 7 weeks i got attached to it and i had to give it up something that i have wanted, i wanted to have the baby i would have loved it, but i was young, James was young and we couldn’t handle having a baby.”
“but seein i was so young i didn’t have a say in it” JivinJehoshaphat February 16, 2006
At 7 weeks, her baby had a heartbeat, and a brain that was giving off brain waves. (New research shows that the heart may start beating as early as 16 days after conception)
Share on FacebookJoan Appleton, former head nurse at the Commonwealth Clinic in Falls Church, Virginia (an abortion clinic):
“We had several rescues at our clinic. There was never any violence. One time we had 250 of them removed — there must have been more than 500 at the clinic that day. But there was no violence. I called some of my friends and asked them to come through the line of protesters, one at a time. ‘I’ll give you a Pap smear and charge you a nickel,’ I told them. That way, we could record business transactions during the days of protest and report to the media that the clinic was open for “business as usual”…..
There was no way our clients were going to come. So we planted a couple of women from NOW in a car in the parking lot. They pretended they were distraught, and so frightened by the protesters that they didn’t dare get out of the car. The media were all over, taping this whole thing.”
Lis Trouten, “It Wasn’t Supposed to Happen That Way.” Minnesota Christian Chronicle, January 19, 1995, pgs 1, 4, 5.
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