Access to Abortion
Reckless Rhetoric On Abortion Morality
“We do not say that a baby’s life is more important than the mother’s. We do say that they are equal. You may never directly kill either one of them. If, in spite of the best medical efforts, one or both of them die, nothing morally wrong has been done…That is far different from killing.”
From Fr. Frank Pavone
Reckless Rhetoric On Abortion Morality, Part 2
“There are two questions at issue here. One is medical (Is there ever need for an abortion to save the mother’s life?) and the other is moral (Would an abortion in that case be justified?) The answer to both questions is no.”
From Fr. Frank Pavone
Reckless Rhetoric On Planned Parenthood
“That’s right, Planned Parenthood’s idea of helping traumatized New Yorkers is to rip their precious babies apart and throw the body parts in the landfill — a horrible sin guaranteed to give suffering moms even more sorrow and anguish!”
From Fr. Frank Pavone
Reckless Rhetoric On Abortion
“I know of women who have been raped and then had abortions, and are in counseling not for the rape but for the abortion! In rape, the trauma is ‘Someone hurt me.’ In abortion, the trauma is ‘I hurt and killed someone else: my child.’ That brings even more grief. We therefore help the questioner to see that our reason for denying the rape victim an abortion is not based on insensitivity but rather on compassion…”
Reckless Rhetoric On Race & Class
“While Planned Parenthood does not openly admit to its systemic prejudice against the poor and non-white minorities, it admits that its "core clients" are "young women, low-income women, and women of color."”
From Wanda Franz
Reckless Rhetoric On Abortion
“Now a recent, unimpeachable study of pregnancy-associated deaths in Finland has shown that the risk of dying within a year after an abortion is several times higher than the risk of dying after miscarriage or childbirth…The (study) also found that…the risk of dying from homicide for post-abortive women was more than four times greater than the risk of homicide among the general population…Unfortunately, there is often no clear way of determining when there is any causal connection between a death and a previous pregnancy, birth, miscarriage, or abortion.”
Reckless Rhetoric On Abortion Among Minorities
“According to the Centers for Disease Control, the percentage of abortions on Hispanic women nearly doubled from 1990 to 1996. This surely reflects Planned Parenthood's increasing effort to target this ethnic minority.”
From Wanda Franz
