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“[A]bortion is killing. Nobody can argue with that. When the fetus is inside the uterus it is alive and when the pregnancy terminated it is dead – that by any definition is killing.”14 14Claire, M., The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue, New York: Insight Books, 1995, p. 59.

“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.

“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…

“What we do here is end a life. And if you’re not okay with that, you can’t work here.”35 35Former abortion clinic worker Jewels Green quoting the director of the abortion clinic, quoted in Madrid, P. Surprised by Life, Manchester, New Hampshire: Sophia Institute Press, 2017, p. 52.

“The solution is lethal. It kills the baby in the womb.”24 24Sweeney, W.J. & Lang Stern, B., Woman’s Doctor: A Year in the Life of an Obstetrician-Gynecologist, New York: Morrow & Company, 1973, p. 207.

“If it was a pencil, it’s not a problem. It’s because we know what is a child, it is a problem”27 27Dr. Jeanne St. Amour, quoted by Ann Collins in The Big Evasion: Abortion, the Issue That Won’t Go Away, Toronto, Ontario: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1985,  p. 114.

“Of course we know [abortion is] killing, but the state permits killing in certain circumstances”29 29Abortion Doctor Dr. Neville Sender, M.D., Milwaukee Journal Article, cited in Miller, M.M., Abandoned: The Untold Story of the Abortion Wars, Charlotte, North Carolina: St. Benedict Press, 2012, p. 183.

“There’s a Native American nurse at an abortion clinic in San Francisco who put it this way. She said, “If you have twins and it’s a bad year, you have to put one in the badger hole.”30 30Samara Azam-Yu, Director of Access Women’s Health Justice in Oakland, California, cited in Oberman, M., Her Body, Our…

“What this acknowledgment of the fetus leads us to is a profound taking of responsibility for our choices, for the fact that we have, with full consciousness, terminated life.”36 36McDonnell, K., Not An Easy Choice: A Feminist Re-examines Abortion, Second Story Press, 2003, p. 54.

“And I just decided it’s not worth it to do, because I have had such terribly strong feelings that it’s turned me off. I feel that I am destroying life. I feel that I’m actually killing them.”37 37Abortion doctor Michael Christie, M.D., quoted in Denes, M., In Necessity and Sorrow, New York: Basic Books, Inc.,…