| Quotes
"There is a day coming when
we will hear the voice from within the womb, when its own
authentic pain will be undeniable, when we will know with
certainty that it is saying "I want to live. I have a
right to live. I do not need your permission to live."
- President Mary McAleese
"We haven't really come that far in our
fight for equality if we celebrate a mother's destruction
of her child as an affirmation of human freedom and dignity"
- Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Marie Oates
"Choose is a transitive verb. It requires
an object. Finish the sentence - choose what?"
- Cathy Callaghan, Feminists for Life
"If women must submit to abortion to preserve
their lifestyle or career, their economic social status, they
are pandering to a system devised and run by men for male
convenience. Of all things which are done to women to fit
them into a society dominated by men, abortion is the most
violent invasion of their physical and psychic integrity.
It is a deeper and more destructive assault than rape....
Accepting short-term solutions like abortion only delays the
implementation of real reforms like decent maternity and paternity
leaves, job protection, high-quality child care, community
responsibility for dependent people of all ages, and recognition
of the economic contribution of child-minders."
- Daphne de Jong
"How quickly a 'woman's right to choose'
comes to serve a 'man's right to use.'"
-Juli Loesch
"Abortion ignores the cause and treats
the symptom: instead of suggesting a way out of the isolation
mothers face, it offers a way out of motherhood."
-Nancy Randolph Pearcy
“Whether you feel that the creation and
wastage of so many embryos is an important issue or not, you
must see that the cynical deception of millions of women by
selling abortifacients as if they were contraceptives is incompatible
with the respect due to women as human beings.”
-Germaine Greer “The Second Sex”
"No one wants an abortion as she wants
an ice-cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an
animal, caught in a trap, wants to gnaw off its own leg. Abortion
is a tragic attempt to escape a desperate situation by an
act of violence and self-loss."
- Frederica Mathewes-Green
"Abortion is the destruction of human life
and energy that does nothing to eradicate the very real underlying
problems of women. The pregnant welfare mother begs for decent
housing, a decent job and child-care or respect for her child-nurturing
work. Instead, she gets directions to the local abortion clinic
and is told to take care of 'her problem.' How convenient.
Much less time and trouble than teaching her about authentic
reproductive freedom and reproductive responsibility. Much
cheaper than attending to her real problems: her poverty,
her lack of skills, her illiteracy, her loneliness, her bitterness
about her entrapment, her self-contempt, her vulnerability.
After the abortion these problems will all be there and another
one added besides: her guilt."
- Cecilia Voss Koch
"I dream of a world , where we can commit
our social resources to the development of human life and
not to its destruction.
- Benazir Bhutto, Former Prime
Minister of Pakistan
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