Pro-Choice Source #55 – Book

“Dr. Ed Jones (not his real name) . . . says that it is always in the back of his mind that he is terminating a life.” 55 55 Nancy Dey Abortion: Debating the Issue (Enslow Publishers: Springfield, IL) 1995, 49.

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Pro-Choice Source #54 – Book

“Is it life? Clearly it’s life.” 54 54 James D Slack Abortion, Execution, and the Consequences of Taking Life (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2009) 49 (quoting “Michelle” who owns an abortion clinic).

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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.

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Pro-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…

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Pro-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).

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Pro-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.

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Pro-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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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.

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Scientific Source #146 – Book

“The fertilization of an egg by the sperm is one of the greatest wonders of nature . . . the growth of a living human being.” 146 146 Dr. George W Corner, the endocrinologist and research scientist, quoted in Nathanson, B.N, M.D The Hand of God: a Journey from Death to Life by the Abortion…

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Scientific Source #144 – Book

“Every human embryologist, worldwide, states that the life of the new individual human being begins at fertilization (conception) . . . We exist as a continuum of human life, which begins at fertilization and continues until death.” 144 144 C. Ward Kischer, professor of anatomy and human embryology, quoted in Watkins, C. (ed), The Ethics…

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