Sources – Pro-Choice
Pro-Choice Source #41 – Book
“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.” 41 41 Guttmacher, A., Life in the Making: the Story of Human Procreation, New York: Viking Press, 1933, p. 3.
Read MorePro-Choice Source #2 – Article
“When we try to act like a pregnancy doesn’t involve human life, we wind up drawing stupid semantic lines in the sand”2 2Elizabeth-Williams, M., So what if abortion ends life?, Salon, 2013, https://www.salon.com/2013/01/23/so_what_if_abortion_ends_life.
Read MorePro-Choice Source #13 – Peer-Reviewed Article
“Aside from the fact that abortion is the taking of a life”13 13Calderone, M.S., Illegal Abortion as a Public Health Problem, American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 50, No. 7, 1960, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1373382/pdf/amjphnation00308- 0022.pdf.
Read MorePro-Choice Source #22 – Video
“I think that it is a baby and I tell our… I use it with the patients”22 22BBC Interview of Dr. LeRoy Carhart, at 0:45, YouTube, Aug. 14, 2019, https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Sx2nhx98mfs
Read MorePro-Choice Source #21 – Article
“The technology has clearly helped to define how people think about a fetus as a full, breathing human being,” admits former NARAL president Kate Michelman. “The other side has been able to use the technology to its own end.””21 21Kliff, S., Why Young Voters Are Lukewarm on Abortion Rights, Newsweek, Apr. 15, 2010, https://www.newsweek.com/why-young-voters-are-lukewarm-abortion-rights-70311.
Read MorePro-Choice Source #20 – Article
“The development of a potential human life requires conception as a first step.”20 20Jacobson, J., Life Begins At Conception. That’s Not the Point, Rewire.News, Nov. 4, 2012, https://rewire.news/article/2012/11/04/life-begins-at-conception-thats-not-point-0.
Read MorePro-Choice Source #19 – Book
“Perhaps the most straightforward relation, between you and me on the one hand and every human fetus on the other is this: All are living members of the same species, homo sapiens. A human fetus, after all, is simply a human being at a very early stage”19 19Boonin, D., Practical Ethics, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge…
Read MorePro-Choice Source #18 – Pamphlet
“An abortion requires an operation. It kills the life of a baby after it has begun.”18 18Ekeocha, O., Planned Parenthood Pamphlet, Twitter, 2017, https://twitter.com/obianuju/status/855234037518094341.
Read MorePro-Choice Source #17 – Video
“We can accept that the embryo is a living thing in the fact that it has a beating heart, that it has its own genetic system within it. It’s clearly human in the sense that it’s not a gerbil, and we can recognize that it is human life.”17 17Furedi, A., Abortion: A Civilised Debate, YouTube,…
Read MorePro-Choice Source #16 – Book
“I would feel this way right through, even as first-trimester fatigue left me drained… [w]e had our outward lives, but now there was something inward happening, a baby growing, a tiny girl”16 16Obama, M., Becoming, Crown, 2018, p. 190.
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