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Pro-Choice Source #51 – Book
“Killing a baby is not the way I want to think about myself.” 51 51 Second Trimester Abortion: Perspectives After a Decade of Experience (Berger, Brenner, Keith, eds, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1981), p. 246.
Read MorePro-Choice Source #50 – Article
“When Judith worked for Planned Parenthood, pro-life activists would often ask her when she thought life began. She would answer, ‘Life begins at conception and what I do is murder.” 50 50 Democratic Chronicle 7/5/92, Quoted in Mark Crutcher “Lime 5: Exploited by Choice ” (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics Incorporated, 1996) 204.
Read MorePro-Choice Source #49 – Book
“If it’s [a miscarriage], you’re like [with a pained voice], “Oh, here’s this little life!” And you know that it was meant to be because, that’s what happened. And if it’s an abortion, you just feel sad that the woman wasn’t able to raise the child.” 49 49 Freedman, L., Willing and Unable: Doctors’ Constraints…
Read MorePro-Choice Source #48 – Book
“[I]t is an end of life, and while I feel the patient should have an option, I didn’t feel comfortable being a provider.” 48 48 Freedman, L., Willing and Unable: Doctors’ Constraints in Abortion Care (Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 2010), 40 (Quoting Dr. Vivian Costa).
Read MorePro-Choice Source #47 – Government Speech
“I am 77 years young and my heart and its valves have been working nonstop since my days as an embryo in my mother’s uterus.” 47 47 Frank Behrend, M.D., abortionist, Tape-recorded speech November 7, 1977 (https://clinicquotes.com/abortionist-compares-abortion-dropping-atom-bomb/#comments).
Read MorePro-Choice Source #46 – Article
“Good grief! They accuse us of pretending we’re not doing what we’re doing . . . I’m in the business of death!” 46 46 Stern, L., “Abortion Wars” The Ottawa Citizen 28 May 2000 (Joan Wright, abortion clinic director).
Read MorePro-Choice Source #45 – Article
“I can now say openly that I do think I am ending a life every time I do an abortion.” 45 45 A British abortionist, Anonymous “Personal View” British Medical Journal 1984, 289: 1377.
Read MorePro-Choice Source #44 – Book
“I feel that abortion involves taking a human life, irrespective of the gestation.” 44 44 Guttmacher, A., Life in the Making: the Story of Human Procreation, New York: Viking Press, 1933, p. 3.
Read MorePro-Choice Source #43 – Article
“There is no longer serious doubt in my mind that human life exists within the womb from the very onset of pregnancy…” 43 43 Nathanson, B., Deeper into Abortion, New England Journal of Medicine, 1974, Vol.. 291, No. 22, p. 1189-1190.
Read MorePro-Choice Source #42 – Book
“No new life begins unless there is conception.” 42 42 Sanger, M., The Pope’s Position on Birth Control, 1932, The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger: Volume 2., Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006, p. 150.
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