“The more abortion has become entrenched, the more difficult it has become for women to resist the pressure to avail themselves of it.”
— MELINDA TANKARD REIST, Giving Sorrow Words
“So far it has been assumed that the only pregnancies which are aborted are accidental ones and the only foetuses destroyed those whose mothers could not bear the thought of their becoming children. In a just world this would be the case, but the world is far from just. Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents. Poverty has many faces; it may be the poverty of the young, the unmarried, the student, the unemployed, the female or a combination of these.”
— GERMAINE GREER, Sex and Destiny
“Professionally, we are obliged to give accurate, current and factual information to our patients to assist them in making a fully informed decision. This is the basis of informed consent. Yet nurses are advised to avoid showing pictures which explain the development of the unborn child because it may make them feel guilty, even though it is often our patients who later question us as to why we did not give them more information.”
— BARBARA DOCHERTY, Practice nurse educator,
New Zealand GP, March 8, 2000.
“Every woman I have seen who has had a termination has a difficult time subsequently. They have a grief process and sorting out time to go through. It certainly doesn't leave them unmarked and I have never met a woman who has had one who would want to go through it again of her own free will.”
— Dr CHRISTINE FORSTER, Chairwoman, NZ Abortion
Supervisory Committee, 1994-2001
Sunday-Star Times, 28 April 1996
“A choice is only possible if there are genuine alternatives.”
— GERMAINE GREER, The Whole Woman
“Coerced abortion is explicitly recognized as a violation of basic rights and principles.”
“The goal was ‘every child a wanted child’; it should also have been ‘every abortion a wanted abortion’, but the two sides of the phony debate were never to meet.”
— GERMAINE GREER, The Whole Woman
“No woman 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.”
— FREDERICA MATHEWES-GREEN, Real Choices
“A ten-week foetus is not pink jelly, but only the woman who loses her baby spontaneously is likely to know how human the tiny creature was and to grieve for it for the rest of her life. Women presenting for [legal] abortion… are shielded from grief… and from guilt.”
— GERMAINE GREER, Sex and Destiny
“…it's hopeless expecting that neutrality will occur at an abortion clinic.”
— JENNY SHIPLEY, Prime Minister of New Zealand 1997 - 1999
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