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Pro-Choice pamphlet acknowledges abortion is “taking a human life”

A pamphlet put out by Catholics for Free Choice entitled “Abortion: A Guide to Making Ethical Decisions” says:

“It is important to understand that while abortion does involve the taking of a human life because all life that is in and of a human being is human life in order to call it murder we would have to believe that prenatal life in the early stages of pregnancy is a human person and that there were absolutely no reasons that justified the taking of that life …

[However], you may feel you have reasons that justify abortion regardless of your beliefs about personhood.”

Marjorie Reiley Maguire and Daniel C. Maguire of Catholics for a Free Choice.

Marjorie Reiley Maguire and Daniel C. Maguire. “Abortion: A Guide to Making Ethical Decisions” Catholics for a Free Choice, September 1983

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British woman discovers abortion is killing when her baby survives abortion attempt

A woman named Margaret tells the story of her abortions. and how her daughter was born:

“The first time I was 26 and involved with a married colleague, and after three months I found out that I was pregnant.

At first I thought I was having a child with the man I loved, but when he came back with the news he was going to get back with his wife, that’s when it changed from being a baby to a problem.

I didn’t think I could cope. There were emotional influences, being ashamed, telling my parents that I was pregnant, and having to leave work.

I was feeling fear and panic. I was reacting to a crisis and I had never had a crisis like that in my life.

My life was out of control and I wanted to get back to normal.

I went to the British Pregnancy Advice Service for counselling. I asked if at ten weeks it was a baby and they said, ‘No, it’s just cells.”

But nine years later there was an almost repeat – I met a guy at work and I didn’t know he was married.

The second time we went out we had intercourse and I took the risk of unprotected sex as I thought as an older woman I couldn’t possibly become pregnant.

But I did. Two weeks later I realised and had that same feeling of panic, I couldn’t believe I was back in this crisis.

I had an abortion, but ten weeks later my period hadn’t come back, I went back to the doctor who said I was still pregnant.

They sent me for a scan and that is when my denial ended. When I saw that baby with its heart beating, I knew that nine years ago I had destroyed a baby.

Before my daughter was born four months later I was worried how I would love it, but when she was born the feelings were just amazing.

I realised that I had been reacting out of fear and not really thinking. I was in denial: ‘It wasn’t really a baby but cells.’

Women deserve more than abortion in a crisis. There are other options, why should the death of a baby be the only answer?”

“Abortion stories: Relief and regret” BBC News 24 October 2007

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Abortionist speaks out against abortion

Abortionist David Grimes argues why adoption should not be promoted, for example, in literature given to women before abortions:

“I feel that it [the Federal government encouraging adoption in any way] would amount to coercive behavior. And it would be inappropriate behavior for anyone in the health care profession to inflict their point of view on anyone. No one knows better than the woman herself what’s best for her.”

“Defying Simple Slogans: Why ‘Adoption, Not Abortion’ Won’t Work.” Newsweek May 1, 1989

He has no problem with abortion clinics “inflicting” their point of view that abortion is a good solution to an inconvenient pregnancy.

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Liturgy on abortion by Catholics for Free Choice

Catholics for Choice (then called Catholics for Free Choice) has the following liturgy to celebrate abortion:

“Praised be you, Mother and Father God, that you have given your people the power of choice. We are saddened that the life circumstances of (aborting woman’s name) are such that she has had to choose to terminate her pregnancy. We affirm her and support her in her decision.”

The litergents then”sprinkle flower petals, or share dried flowers.”

CFFC brochure entitled “You Are Not Alone” quoted in Mary Meehan. “How Can They Be Called Catholic?” National Catholic Register, November 19, 1989, page 5.

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Abortionist comments on women’s pain during abortion

Dr. Henry Morgantaler did thousands of abortions in Canada. He comments on women’s pain during abortions:

“While pain is generally minimal as a result of local anesthesia of the cervix, it may be felt as intense or severe by a small minority. This could be due to a partial ineffectiveness of the local anesthesia or be a reflection of the pain threshold of the patient. People’s susceptibility to pain varies enormously and some people withstand even small amounts of pain very poorly.

It is well-known that when anxiety is high, pain will be felt more intensely.”

Henry Morgentaler Abortion and Contraception (New York: Beaufort Books, Inc., 1982) 81

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Woman threatens to kill her kids to get abortion

Helen Bayley was a member of the local League of Women Voters in New York, and she became active in the pro-choice movement after being forced to have two psychiatrists pronounce her mentally unstable in order to have an abortion.

(In the 1960s, in some states, a woman had to claim mental illness in order to be granted and abortion) From the book Before Roe:

“I’m going to kill my kids,” I raged. I said I’ll go berserk. I felt that way. I felt like a tigress. I felt I was clawing my way out of a thicket.”

The book goes on to say:

“Bailey became a vocal supporter of abortion reform, testifying in a legislative hearing in Albany in the spring of 1968 and lobbying legislators.”

Rosemary Nossiff Before Roe: Abortion Policy in the States (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press, 2001) 91, 92

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Abortion was “most painful thing I ever experienced”

A woman who had an abortion says:

“I was informed that it wasn’t going to hurt and it was the most painful thing I ever experience[d] to date. I remember the nurses telling me to be quiet so that I don’t scare the other patients. I had no clue what type of abortion I was having. . . . I was told that this was the best option for my situation and it was the worst choice I ever made.”

AMICUS CURIAE BRIEF OF 3,348 WOMEN INJURED BY ABORTION AND THE JUSTICE FOUNDATION IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENTS FOR AFFIRMANCE

WHOLE WOMAN’S HEALTH, et al., Petitioners, v. JOHN HELLERSTEDT, M.D., COMMISSIONER, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES, et al., Respondents.

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Raped woman who had abortion: It didn’t heal my pain

A woman who became pregnant after rape writes about her abortion:

“My child was three and a half weeks old when I made the decision to have an abortion, killing him and wounding my heart forever. …

A few years passed and I tried my best to forget what happened. Stitches were removed, wounds healed and even scars began to fade. From an outside perspective, I looked as though I was doing much better, but my heart was plagued with the decision that I’d made. I could never fully push it away, despite my best efforts.

I put up a good front, pretending that everything was fine. In reality, I had found my way to a secret life of drugs, alcohol and just about anything else I could do to numb the pain I felt inside my heart…..

Now, nearly five years removed from the decision to have my abortion, I can say with some certainty that I regret it to the fullest extent possible. My heart hurts deeply with the wounds that came from my assault. But the pain of knowing that I will never meet my child hurts more deeply. While I continue to wonder how I could have coped with having a baby from rape, I know that killing him did nothing to heal my pain.”

“After I was raped I aborted my child, but that only increased the pain” LifeSiteNews Feb 24, 2012

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Abortionist: “We wont’ lose too many Beethovens”

One abortionist, talking about abortion and birth control:

“Those [young and poor] are the ones that need it most. There are so many damn welfare programs. It’s like spitting in the ocean. Here is a positive program – the kids live in an environment that doesn’t offer much hope. I don’t think we are going to lose very many Napoleons or Beethovens doing this… The population problem is not caused by the offspring of young engineers or doctors – that fewer of these, the fewer there will be to support those who don’t limit their offspring. If we don’t do something about it, we will populate ourselves off the earth. That’s suicide, slow suicide. That’s one solution.”

Jonathan B Imber Abortion and the Private Practice of Medicine (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986) 51-52

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Doctor explains why he does not do abortions

Dr. Aaron Sacks trained to do abortions, but after residency, decided not to do them. He explains why:

“Since finishing residency, I have never done any abortions. I think it has to do with – as much as I would like to say that it’s only my practice – but if I really look honestly, I would prefer not to do the abortions because somehow it’s difficult for me to draw the line between a child and a fetus and a baby. And all that is semantics to me… It touches me somewhere inside. [During training] I tried not to think [about] what I am doing. I just did it in the best technical manner I could do… And I was just looking at the end of the day to finish and that’s it.”

Lori Freedman Willing and Unable: Doctors’ Constraints in Abortion Care (Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 2010) 44

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