"Unfortunately, thanks to Mussolini, much of the evil of the Papal States has been concentrated in a country the size of a golf course — one where the duffers don't always count all their strokes. For instead of creating a realm of the spirit, as Vatican brochures would like you to believe, members of the Curia who run Vatican City have used its sovereignty (read unaccountability) to create a Corporate Papacy, the world's last real autocracy, with a tiny tax haven all its own."
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Dana Facaros and Michael Pauls. Rome [a tourist reference book]. Cadogan Books, Ltd., 1998. Described in Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. 1998 Report on Anti-Catholicism, available on-line at the Catholic League's Web site here [NOTE: Under the guise of providing tourist information, the authors used this section of their book to accuse the Vatican of having "Mafia connections" and of "laundering drug money through the Vatican bank," and also to imply something sinister in "the circumstances surrounding the sudden death of John Paul I"].
Falsto-Sterling, Anne
"Imagine that the sexes have multiplied beyond currently imaginable limits. It would have to be a world of shared powers. Patient and physician, parent and child, male and female, heterosexual and homosexual — all those oppositions and others would have to be dissolved as sources of division. A new ethic of medical treatment would arise, one that would permit ambiguity in a culture that had overcome sexual division."
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Anne Falsto-Sterling. "The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough." The Sciences, March/April 1993, page 24. Also quoted in Dale O'Leary. The Gender Agenda: Redefining Equality [Lafayette, Louisiana: Vital Issues Press], 1997, page 91 [NOTE: Falsto-Sterling's "five sexes" are male, female, "herm," "merm" and "ferm"].
Farajoje-Jones, Elias (Howard University Divinity Professor)
"We are taught we have to be one thing. Now people are finding they don't have to choose. ... [He has decided that his] child Issa-Ajamu will know no gender barriers. With help from a fillable, strap-on tube, both parents will breast-feed. And, when people ask if the child — who has both ears pierced — is a boy or a girl, Farajoje-Jones responds: 'Ask the baby.'"
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Howard University Divinity Professor Elias Farajoje-Jones, who has been sleeping with men and women since he was 16, and who has a two-month old baby with his bisexual 'partner,' Katherin. Quoted in Steve Rhodes, et. al. "Bisexuality." Newsweek Magazine, July 17, 1995, page 49 [NOTE: This poor kid is obviously going to need heavy therapy when he [she, it?] learns how fouled up his [her, it?] family life really is. And imagine having to all your life spell your name — "Issa-Ajamu Farajoje-Jones" — for everyone you meet].
Farley, Michelle (abortion mill administrator)
"Every time someone says something inflammatory — 'Abortion kills babies. Abortion doctors murder babies' — they contribute to another clinic bombing. ... If people want to think horrible things about abortion, that's their business. But I want it to become politically incorrect and socially unacceptable to say such inflammatory things."
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Michelle Farley, administrator of the "New Woman All Women Health Care" abortion mill in Birmingham, Alabama, quoted in Jennifer Gonnerman. "Cheerleaders For Violence." The Village Voice, November 3-9, 1998.
Farson, Richard ('children's rights' activist)
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THE RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION. Children should have the right to decide the matters which affect them most directly.
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THE RIGHT TO ALTERNATIVE HOME ENVIRONMENTS. Self-determining children should be able to choose from among a variety of arrangements: residences operated by children, child exchange programs, 24-hour child-care centers, and various kinds of schools and employment opportunities. Parents are not always good for their children ...
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THE RIGHT TO RESPONSIVE DESIGN. Society must accommodate itself to children's size and to their need for safe space. To keep them in their place, we now force children to cope with a world that is either not built to fit them, or is actually designed against them.
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THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION. A child must have the right to all information ordinarily available to adults — including, and perhaps especially, information that makes adults uncomfortable.
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THE RIGHT TO EDUCATE ONESELF. Children should be free to design their own education, choosing from among many options the kinds of learning experiences they want, including the option not to attend any kind of school. Compulsory education must be abolished because the enforced threatening quality of education in America has taught children to hate school, to hate the subject matter, and, tragically, to hate themselves.
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THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM FROM PHYSICAL PUNISHMENT. Corporal punishment is used impulsively and cruelly in the home, arbitrarily in the schools, and sadistically in penal institutions.
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THE RIGHT TO SEXUAL FREEDOM. Children should have the right to conduct their sexual lives with no more restrictions than adults. Sexual freedom for children must include the right to information about sex, the right to nonsexist education, and the right to all sexual activities that are legal among consenting adults.
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THE RIGHT TO ECONOMIC POWER. Children should have the right to work, to acquire and manage money, to receive equal pay for equal work, to choose trade apprenticeship as an alternative to school, to gain promotions to leadership positions, to own property, to develop a credit record, to enter into binding contracts, to engage in enterprise, to obtain guaranteed support apart from the family, to achieve financial independence.
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THE RIGHT TO POLITICAL POWER. Children should have the vote and be included in the decision-making process. To become a constituency they must have the right to vote.
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THE RIGHT TO JUSTICE. Children must have the guarantee of a fair trial with due process of law, an advocate to protect their rights against the parents as well as the system, and a uniform standard of detention."
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Richard Farson. "A Child's Bill of Rights." Ms. Magazine, March 1974.
Faux, Marian
"It certainly was not [Sarah] Weddington's first choice to use a kind of trumped-up defendant, but if no one else turned up, she realized it might be her only option.
"Court activity required less support (and certainly tolerated no lobbying) than attempts to change the laws through state legislatures."
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Marian Faux. Roe v. Wade: The Untold Story of the Landmark Supreme Court Decision That Made Abortion Legal [New York City: MacMillan], 370 pages.
Faw, Bob (NBC)
"The issue is whether what's going out over the airwaves here and elsewhere is fanning the flames, is making the situation worse, that talk radio is not democracy in action, but democracy run amok."
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NBC reporter Bob Faw, concluding a January 3, 1995 "Nightly News" story.
Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)
"We should congratulate China on bringing down its birth rate. Every person puts pressure on the limited resources of our planet, so when a country with one-fifth of the world's population achieves a lower birth rate, it helps preserve the world's future. China had millions die of starvation in the 1960s. Knowing that only 11 percent of its land is arable, it has worked hard to avoid a repetition of this by asking its citizens to have small families and encouraging them by a system of rewards and penalties."
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Sarah G. Epstein. Letter entitled "Boys and Girls in China." The Washington Post, May 1, 1993, page A22 [NOTE: Epstein has a long pedigree with population control organizations. She is the daughter of Pathfinder International's founder, Dr. Clarence J. Gamble. She was on the Board of Directors for Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, DC (PPMW) for years. She is a former member of the Boards of Directors for the Population Institute, the Center for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA), the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), and Population Services International (PSI). Her husband is Donald Collins, founder of International Services Assistance Fund (ISAF). They have conducted trials of quinacrine sterilization in the USA, India, Chile, Brazil, and Mexico].
Feldt, Gloria (President and CEO of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) from 1996 to 2005 and former President of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund)
"We will proudly present Reverend [Howard] Moody with our highest honor, the PPFA Margaret Sanger Award, for saving the lives of countless women. His deep sense of integrity led him to sense and fulfill a moral duty to help the women who came to him, regardless of legal risks. Reverend Moody embodies tremendous courage ..."
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Gloria Feldt, former President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, speaking of the PPFA National Conference in St. Louis, December 3-7, 1998 [NOTE: Moody, a Baptist minister, founded the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion in 1967 while a minister at the Judson Memorial Church in New York City. The Clergy Consultation Service helped women find illegal and "safe" abortions in the years before the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide. "1,000 Planned Parenthood Activists to Gather in St. Louis for National Meeting." AOLNews@aol.com, November 30, 1998].
"Trent Lott is finally stepping down from his leadership post in the Senate — a move Planned Parenthood not only supports but has also encouraged. ... As an organization committed to freedom and justice, Planned Parenthood has steadfastly opposed the policies and perspectives espoused by Lott. ... There must be a wholesale rejection of any leader who does not affirm basic human and civil rights, whether that leader occupies the halls of justice, the halls of Congress, or the hallowed halls of the West Wing.
"Lott — and the political movement he represents — has a long history of obstructing freedom. His abysmal record on racial justice is joined by a fervent opposition to sexual and reproductive self-determination. ... It was the same political climate that allowed Bush's America to be the rogue state of the recent Bangkok population conference, espousing the most draconian anti-woman, anti-choice agenda of any nation in attendance. Lott's nostalgia for the racial politics of the 1940s goes hand in hand with his nostalgia for a time when abortion was illegal, contraception was often inaccessible, and women were imprisoned by the roles that a deeply misogynist and sexist society had carved out for them. ... Eventually the great sleeping bear, which is the U.S. public, rises from its slumber and says enough. It said "enough" to the Confederacy, to Jim Crow, to Joe McCarthy, to the Vietnam War, to illegal abortion, to the Berlin Wall, to corporate corruption, to pedophile priests. And it has said no to Trent Lott."
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"Statement of Gloria Feldt, President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America." U.S. Newswire, December 20, 2007 [NOTE: Feldt's statement was made in reaction to the resignation of Senator Trent Lott on December 18, 2007. We have to wonder if the person who writes such reams of drivel for Feldt is aware of the indisputable fact that the Planned Parenthood Federation of America deliberately locates the majority of its abortion and birth control clinics in minority neighborhoods].
"I can't think of anyone who has made a greater contribution to the lives of women, children and families — of all races — than Margaret Sanger. You have to look at her life to see she had a desire to help the poor and the downtrodden of any race."
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Gloria Feldt, President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), quoted in the Phoenix Gazette, September 12, 1991, and The Ryan Report, June/July 1996, page 2.
"Dear Friend,
"Sadly, a letter like this would have to be treated with suspicion at Planned Parenthood.
"While you probably opened the letter without much thought, such haste could be deadly for the volunteer at a women's health center.
"And the brave people who risk life and limb to make sure that women have access to health care must now be taught to look out for packages that arrive from unknown sources. Hand-addressed mailings — like the one you just opened — are particularly frightening ..."
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Undated Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) fundraising letter signed by Gloria Feldt [NOTE: The "hand-addressing" on the envelope is actually a computer-generated font that looks a little like hand lettering].
"Judge Shabaz is exercising judicial extremism and thereby endangering the lives of women. "These bans on so-called 'partial birth' abortion violate a woman's constitutionally protected right to choose. Bans in 18 of 20 states have been ruled unconstitutional and we remain confident that a successful legal appeal of today's ruling will restore the constitutionally protected right to safe abortion services for women in Wisconsin."
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Gloria Feldt, President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), quoted in "PPFA Upset by Wisconsin District Court Decision." U.S. Newswire, May 28, 1999. Feldt's statement was in response to Wisconsin District Court Judge John C. Shabaz's decision to vacate the preliminary injunction against the Wisconsin law prohibiting partial birth abortions.
Greta Van Sustern: "Gloria, your organization has been dealing with this type of terrorism for a number of years."
Gloria Feldt: "But as you say, domestic terrorism is not new to us, and we all need to work together to stop this kind of hatred and bigotry that creates the mindset and the social climate in which this kind of behavior can occur."
Richard Dietl: "Then you got the nuts. You got these people across America who are anti-abortion, anti-everything. And they're just jumping on the bandwagon and they're using this now as a cover. So they're sending white powder around to all these corporations."
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Gloria Feldt, President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), during CNN'S "The Point" with Greta Van Susteren during its October 25, 2002 episode entitled "Tracking The Terrorists." "Planned Parenthood Exploits Fear Climate to Accuse Pro-Lifers of Terrorism." LifeSite Daily News at http://www.lifesite.net, October 31, 2001. Richard Dietl, retired from the New York Police and currently running a security company, was the other guest. No pro-lifers were on the show.
Feminists, The
"[Women are a political class] separated out from humanity and thus denied their humanity. While men performed this expulsion, it is the male role or the role of the Oppressor that must be annihilated — not necessarily those individuals who presently claim the role ... the sex roles themselves must be destroyed. If any part of these role definitions is left, the disease of oppression remains and will reassert itself again in new, or the same old, variations throughout society. ... We have a membership quota: That no more than one-third of our membership can be participants in either a formal (with legal contract) or informal (e.g., living with a man) instance of the institution of marriage."
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"The Feminists" [New York] declaration, quoted in Judith Hole and Ellen Levine. Rebirth of Feminism [New York City: Quadrangle Books], 1971.
Feminist Women's Health Centers (FWHCs)
"The technology is here — you can't take that away. They may make abortion illegal, but they can't control it."
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Susan Landau of the Redding Feminist Women's Health Center, quoted in Lisa M. Krieger. "Clinics Teaching Women to Do Home Abortions." San Francisco Examiner, July 21, 1989.
"The lesson I learned is that it's still terrorism whether or not the threat is ever realized."
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A Portland, Oregon Feminist Women's Health Center worker, who expected a pro-life rescue that never happened. "The Clinic Attack That Wasn't." Feminist Women's Health Center Newsletter [Portland, Oregon], Summer 1993, page 8.
"Fertility Awareness poses a big threat to the hormonal contraceptive industry. If women are given the choice of the Pill or implants with their side effects, lack of STD protection, expense, and reliance on doctors; or Fertility Awareness, with or without barrier methods, which seems the more logical choice? Both have the same effectiveness (98.5 - 99.2 percent). Fertility Awareness costs nothing to use, has no side effects, and puts reproductive responsibility firmly in the hands of the user."
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Suzanne Cooper Doyle. "Fertility Awareness: Reclaiming Reproductive Control." WomenWise (publication of the New Hampshire Federation of Feminist Women's Health Centers), Summer 1991, pages 6 and 8.
Feral, Priscilla (Humane Society, "Friends of Animals")
"Animal experimentation is just plain wrong. Human beings have no right to the knowledge gained from experimentation on animals, even if it is done painlessly."
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Priscilla Feral, a spokesperson for the Humane Society, and president of the organization "Friends of Animals," quoted in the New York Times, October 25, 1988, page 1.
"There is no rational basis for maintaining a moral distinction between the treatment of humans and other animals."
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Priscilla Feral, a spokesperson for the Humane Society, and president of the organization "Friends of Animals," quoted in the New York Times, October 25, 1988, page 1.
Fernandez, Giselle (CBS)
"Back then [when it received Soviet subsidies], the island may have been a thorn in Washington's side but it was a beacon of success for much of Latin America and the Third World. For decades, Cuba's health care and education systems were touted as great achievements of the revolution. ... Some say the trade ban has never given Cuba a chance to see whether or not Castro's socialism might work."
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CBS reporter Giselle Fernandez, September 4, 1994 "Evening News."
Ferraro, Barbara (pro-abortion former nun)
"It is within this context that we constantly reflect. It is precisely within this context that we remained on a collision course with the Vatican after signing "A Diversity of Opinions Regarding Abortion Exists among Committed Catholics: A Catholic Statement on Pluralism and Abortion" which appeared in The New York Times in 1984. ...
"Thinking dialogue might be possible, we labored (albeit briefly) under the illusion that the hierarchy believed in the search for truth. It did not. Instilling fear, demanding conformity, ignoring and trivializing women's experiences, coercing statements and repressing dissent were what mattered to church officials.
"This institutional evil done in the name of God made us appreciate the words of John McNeil, a priest psychotherapist, "If you must choose between the church teachings being wrong or God being a sadist, by all means, choose that the church teachings are wrong."
"In today's world, fanaticism is rampant and dangerous. Religious fanatics who call upon God's name to exclude respect for those who believe differently; who trample diversity, freedom of conscience and religion, must be confronted, for they will go to any length (even murder) to bring conformity to their single belief system."
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Disgraced pro-abortion former nuns Barbara Ferraro and Patricia Hussey. "Seek the Truth." In "An Enlightened Church: Letters to Young Catholics." Conscience (newsletter of 'Catholics' for a Free Choice), Summer 2002 [Volume XXIII, Number 2], pages 7 to 21.
"We believe that dialogue is essential for the very life of the Church.
"We regret that male, celibate Church is ignoring and trivializing the experience of women. We regret that the official Church cannot deal with women as full persons and moral agents in our own right. We regret that official Church is neutralizing and negating the serious reflection of Catholic theologians and theologians in other faith traditions on the issue of reproductive rights.
"We believe that women are to be affirmed in their reproductive decisions on the basis of individual conscience and personal religious freedom. We believe that by the official Church's inability to deal with birth control that in practice, it promotes the high abortion rate it claims to abhor.
"We believe that dissent on all controversial issues including reproductive right is essential for the life of the Church. We believe that the dissent falls within the rights and responsibilities of all Roman Catholics. The official Church has a responsibility of foster a climate in which faithful dissent is incorporated into the ongoing life of the community.
"We regret that the official Church is prepared to and has used force, threats and violence to obtain submission.
"We believe that the hierarchy has given scandal by: their disruption of and intervention in women's religious communities; extracting what amounts to loyalty oaths; attempting to compromise the integrity of many religious signers, and deliberately misinterpreting and miscommunicating nun-signers' statements to the public.
"The cornerstone of the Catholic tradition is the search for truth. Unfortunately the actions of the official Church thwart that goal and are totally contrary to our "vision of Church as a discipleship of equals."
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Former nuns Barbara Ferraro and Patricia Hussey. "... A Response." Conscience (newsletter of 'Catholics' for a Free Choice), July/August 1986 [Volume VII, Number 4], page 11.
"This victory confirms our understanding of obedience as responsible decisionmaking. ... And now we know this church can change and we can change this church, but only through struggle, honesty, speaking out, taking risks and being clear [NOTE: There is never any mention by CFFC members that they might change in the slightest]. ...
"We believe that dissent falls within the rights and responsibilities of all Roman Catholics. The official church has a responsibility to foster a climate in which faithful dissent is incorporated into the ongoing life of the community."
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"Statement of Barbara Ferraro and Patricia Hussey." Conscience (newsletter of 'Catholics' for a Free Choice), May/June 1988 [Volume IX, Number 3], page 4.
"We now believe that the leadership has affirmed that right to be a member and hold public positions on non-infallible teachings that differ from official church teachings."
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Former nuns Barbara Ferraro and Patricia Hussey. "Prochoice Nuns Move On." Conscience (newsletter of 'Catholics' for a Free Choice), July/August 1988 [Volume IX, Number 4], page 2.
"We signed [the New York Times pro-abortion ad] because we've seen young girls come in pregnant after being molested by their fathers. We've seen pregnant teenagers with no future if they have children so young. Once you see things like that, you understand that a group of men in Rome can't know everything. ..."
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Former nun Barbara Ferraro, quoted in Claudia Dreifus. "Out of Order." Ms. Magazine, December 1988, pages 64 to 67.
"I know that if either of my girls came to me and said, "Mom, I'm pregnant, and I'm not gonna have that baby," I would say "Here's the money. Please go see a doctor.""
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Failed vice-presidential candidate and self-professed 'Catholic' Geraldine Ferraro, Ms. Magazine, July 1984.
"The cost of putting an unwanted child through the system outweights the cost of funding those [abortion] procedures."
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Failed Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, quoted in Patrick Buchanan. "Mother Church, Daughter Geraldine." The Washington Times, August 1, 1984, page 2C.
Fetrow, Judith (reformed abortion mill worker)
"Clinic workers may say they support a woman's right to choose, but they will also say that they do not want to see tiny hands and tiny feet. ... There is a great difference between the intellectual support of a woman's right to choose and the actual participation in the carnage of abortion. Because seeing body parts bothers the workers."
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Judith Fetrow, former abortion mill worker from San Francisco, quoted in "Meet the Abortion Providers III," from Chicago conference conducted by the Pro-Life Action League, April 3, 1993.
Fieger, Geoffrey (Jack Kevorkian's lawyer)
"Do you think the Roman soldiers thought he was the Son of God or just some goofball who got nailed to the cross? In 2000 years, we've probably made somebody who is the equivalent of Elvis into God, so I see no reason why not to believe that in 2000 years Elvis will be God."
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Geoffrey Fieger, Jack Kevorkian's attorney and unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor of Michigan in 1998. Quoted from an October 1996 issue of the Detroit Free Press and in Mona Charen. "Pro-Choice Extremist." The Life Advocate [Foundation for Life, Houston], September/October 1998, page 8.
Geoffrey Fieger called his incumbent opponent for Governor of Michigan, John Engler, "the product of miscegenation between humans and barnyard animals," and also suggested that Engler's triplet daughters had corkscrew tails, like pigs. He said that Engler was "dumber than Dan Quayle and twice as ugly." No anti-lifer criticized him for these bigoted and vicious attacks, because Fieger supports abortion, homosexual rights, and euthanasia.
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Rock Hampson. "Election Year Was Truly Off." USA Today, November 6, 1998, page 6A.
"You couldn't develop a virus that kills as many people as we do and destroys as many things as we do. We're just a pestilence with appendages."
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Geoffrey Fieger, Jack Kevorkian's attorney and unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor of Michigan in 1998. Quoted from an October 1996 issue of the Detroit Free Press and in Mona Charen. "Pro-Choice Extremist." The Life Advocate [Foundation for Life, Houston], September/October 1998, page 8.
Fiffer, Sharon Sloan
"What 50-year-old married man and women really need is a clause in the marriage contract that requires husbands and wives to have an affair after hitting the big 5-0. ... It would be economical. Since so many married fifty-somethings will have affairs anyway, the cost of keeping them secret is astronomical. Travel to remote locations, hotel bills, restaurant charges, flowers, jewelry, separate phone lines, new hairpieces, liposuction, therapy, marriage counseling, electrolysis, guilt gifts to spouses, etc., will all be unnecessary when arrangements can simply be worked out conveniently, honestly and in the comfort of one's own home. ..."
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Sharon Sloan Fiffer. "Liasions Avantageuses?: How to Turn a Marriage Breaker Into a Marriage Saver." The Washington Post, January 31, 1999, page B4.
Figa-Talamanca, Irene
"Abortion and contraception are not alternatives but complementary."
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Irene Figa-Talamanca, "Abortion and Mental Health." In Jane E. Hodgson (Editor). Abortion and Sterilization: Medical and Social Aspects [New York City: Grune & Stratton], 1981, pages 181 to 208.
Fineman, Howard (Newsweek Magazine)
"Clinton is giving the best evidence yet of his approach to leadership. It's about understanding, not threats; accommodation, not confrontation; about getting people (or at least Democrats) to sing the same song. The style is reminiscent of another patient, nonjudgmental figure given to hugging in public: Barney the Dinosaur."
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Newsweek Magazine reporters Howard Fineman and Eleanor Clift, August 9, 1993.
"There's no doubting that the nation is about to be led by its first sensitive male chief executive. He's the first President to have attended both Lamaze classes and family therapy (as part of his brother's drug rehabilitation). He can speak in the rhythms and rhetoric of pop psychology and self-actualization. He can search for the inner self while seeking connectedness with the greater whole."
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Newsweek Magazine Washington reporter Howard Fineman, in a January 25, 1993 news story.
Finkbine, Sherri ("Romper Room" hostess)
"This [question of abortion] shouldn't be an issue in the political arena. When a woman has to make this kind of decision, she should see her doctor, not her lawyer. ... I did not want a child who sits in the park and has people give him peanuts and things. Had it not been for the abortion, I would have taken care of the four children I had, and the head and torso [referring to the allegedly handicapped preborn baby that she aborted]."
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Sherri Finkbine, hostess of the "Romper Room" television show in the 1960s. Quoted in Dennis McDougal, Los Angeles Times-Washington Post Service. "Emotionally Charged Abortion Issue Told in 'Sherri'." TV Click, The Sunday Oregonian, February 9, 1992, page 26.
"Then, too, I hope that our case serves as a catalyst of sorts for abortion reform in our country."
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Sherri Finkbine, hostess of the "Romper Room" television show in the 1960s, quoted in Alan Guttmacher, M.D. The Case for Legalized Abortion Now. Berkeley: Diablo Press, 1967, pages 24 and 25.
Finkel, Brian (abortionist)
"This is my abortion machine, where I do the Lord's work. I heal the sick with it.
"My mother's dead, but I'm looking forward to being an orphan. I can't wait for that nasty son of a bitch [my father] to die, so I can go piss on his grave.
"I'm the prince of the pelvis, the disciple of Elvis! The uptight, out-of-sight, feeling-all-right Dr. Brian Leslie Finkel.
"And you know what? I like myself. And that's what these other f—ers here in town don't understand. I like myself."
"I meet all these weirdoes that want to give me s—, all because I like doing abortions for women. I help women doing abortions, that's my job, I'm really good at it. ...
"You know, Filipinos have absolutely drop-dead gorgeous chicks. We used to call them LBFM. Little Brown F—ing Machines. Want to see a picture of an LBFM? I just happen to have one right here. ...
"Got a Tech 9 [gun]. Every gynecologist needs a Tech 9, so I could have more rounds, 'cause they were bringing me more Christians. There's a Smith and Wesson .40 and a few rifles, for crowd control down at the [abortion mill] office. Ya ever looked down [the barrel of] a gun? C'mon, it's fun. ... Pretend the Catholic hordes are after you."
"You know, I'm clean, I'm sober, I'm not doing drugs, I'm not stealing money, I'm trying to go to work. And I meet all these weirdoes that want to give me s—, all because I like doing abortions for women. I help women doing abortions, that's my job, I'm really good at it. I've learned from the best, and I've seen the worst. And I keep running across these people who abuse their position of trust and under the call of authority try to ruin my life."
"I give all these guys [pro-life picketers] names, 'cause that personalizes it. We had this one guy that was stalking my office with his family. I called him 'Beer Belly,' he was a fat Mexican, stuff hanging over his belt. I go, 'Hey, Beer Belly, I want you to know that if your wife ever needs an abortion, I'll do one for free. Not because I'm a nice guy, but just because I want to get between her l-e-e-e-e-gs.'"
"I have this law firm that works for me, I call them the eight gnawing Jews — Sacks Tierney — and they just ... bit their ass for me ...
"Children of the Rosary is usually a very virulent, malicious group of harpies for Jesus. Kathy Sabelko [leader of the group] is a double-butt ugly mean-spirited bitch. It's reasonably apparent that she's physically challenged. She's just unattractive. Really, really unattractive. And I don't understand why she has this hatred for women, but she's one of these really mean-spirited Catholic misogynists who doesn't like women.
"Now you just have a bunch of Wal-Mart shoppers showing up out front. Retirees — it's obvious just looking at them they're retirees. They're on a budget, they don't have a lot of money, they have a lot of free time. And they're looking for an ego feed. 'Somebody tell me I'm important, please.' They've never been important in their lives at all. So they come down here to my office, and they prey on people.
"I believe in the eternal darkness of death. My Garden of Eden and my heaven is right here on earth.
[Reverend Donald Spitz, director of Pro Life Virginia] has wrapped himself up in this mantle of moral superiority, but when you strip it off his shoulders you find his swastikas. He's a fascist. He's a religious zealot. ... Well, it's obvious that this man has a very obvious ongoing anti-social personality disorder, and I think he needs to increase his medication. ... The FBI needs to follow him around."
"My enemies would tell you that I'm a media whore. My enemies would tell you that I seek out publicity, and my opponents would tell you that I deserve it. ... I think of myself as a crime victim. A crime victim while I'm taking care of disenfranchised women. Disenfranchised women who don't have lobbyists. Disenfranchised women that don't own their legislators, 'cause they're not making payments to them for their positions. And I got tired of getting pilloried in the media."
"I just said, 'F— it. I'm smarter than the pro-lifers, I can form abstract thoughts. I'll talk to the media and explain to them what's going on.' You know, I don't call the media, the media calls me. ... I'm just a world-traveled, world-trained, world-class physician who speaks up for the little woman. That's all I am. And you know what? I do real good when I have no competition. ... I go after the big guys, honey. I don't like abusive men. I don't like abusive men who come after me and tell me that I'm worthless. I just won't take it. From anybody. Not from the ejaculator that inseminated the cow that birthed me, to any one of these dysfunctional, hate-filled religionists that I'm forced to interact with. ... If you let these cocksuckers get away with this on me, you're next.
"I will not interact with Planned Parenthood at all. That's unfortunate, but they're such a bunch of disingenuous miscreants, [and] I really don't want to have anything to do with their alternative-health-care universe that they run. They're taking advantage of their patients, and they're taking advantage of their tax-exempt status, and I don't want to lower my health care standards to theirs."
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Arizona abortionist Brian Finkel, quoted in Amy Silverman. "The Terminator." Downloaded from www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1999/061799/feature1-1.html to feature 1-7.html, the online edition of the weekly Phoenix New Times, on June 21, 1999 [NOTE: Finkel calls his abortion machine the "Super Sucker" and his abortion mill the "Vaginal Vault." In addition to killing preborn children, Finkel sells rugs in his abortion mill. He owns 30 guns, including one with armor-piercing shells. He and his wife Diane named their first aborted child "Ernie the Embryo," and laugh about it. Finkel passes out cards to pro-lifers that read "Jesus loves you. The rest of us think you're an a—h—." Despite his obviously unbalanced nature, Finkel has full support from all pro-abortion groups. For example, Bruce Miller, executive director of Arizona Right to Choose, says that "I think a part of Brian's desire for publicity is in some ways because Brian is genuinely an unrecognized hero in our community, and I don't think that Brian has gotten the accolades that I think he should get or that Brian thinks he should get"].
Finley, Karen (obscene 'performance artist')
"[My works are] including some wonderful queer material, both written text and visual art, among them a painting of 'God the Homosexual' which depicts John the Baptist and two of Jesus' apostles as — you guessed it — gay. In the painting the men are sucking each other's cocks. I did the drawing after the Helms thing. There's a strong possibility, if you wanna look at Jesus as a prophet, there's a strong possibility that Jesus was Gay. Another painting depicts the Virgin Mary and proclaims 'The Virgin Mary is Pro-Choice.' The angel asked Mary if she wanted the child and she said, 'yes.' That's choice."
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National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)-funded 'performance artist' Karen Finley, quoted in the Philadelphia Gay News, April 12-18, 1991, and in "Finley Presents Jesus as a Homosexual and Mary as Pro-Choice." American Family Association Journal, July 1991, page 24.
Finley, Lucinda (Pro-Choice Network of New York)
"Federal court judges are supreme over God."
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Lucinda Finley, lawyer for the Pro-Choice Network of New York, quoted in Paul Likoudis. "Jaws of Hell Open Wide in Buffalo." The Wanderer, May 7, 1992, page 1.
Finn, Geraldine (Canadian feminist)
"There are two ways of getting rid of a structure. One is to put a bomb under it, and the other is to dig around and undermine it until it topples. ... [Women should fight] on all fronts at once. There is no linchpin to patriarchal power; no Winter Palace which can be assaulted collectively and appropriated once and for all — though all the contributors [to Feminism in Canada] are united in their recognition of the control of reproduction as one of its fundamental constituents. The mechanisms of male dominance are multiform and interconnected (they have had a long time to grow and consolidate) — the family, the economy, the church, and the educational system, for example. These pivotal points of control have to be undermined, not merely assaulted, but dismantled bit-by-bit from the ground up."
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Geraldine Finn. "On the Oppression of Women in Philosophy," in Angela R. Miles and Geraldine Finn [editors]. Feminism in Canada: From Pressure to Politics [Montreal: Black Rose Books], 1982, page 313. Also quoted in Betty Steele. The Feminist Takeover: Patriarchy to Matriarchy in Two Decades [Richmond Hill, Ontario: Tercet Publishing], 1987, pages 51 and 52 [emphasis in the original].
Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schüssler (dissenter)
"If your delegation represents the Vatican state, an antiquated and decorative monarchy in Italy, you are entitled to your quaint worldview on motherhood and women's complementarity, which you expressed at the European preparatory meeting and in your "country report" for the conference. No one will care! After all, at a time when the Vatican state has become an outdated, picturesque tourist spot you are at liberty to hold on to fuzzy romanticism, be it that associated with the Swiss Guard or that undergirding the philosophy of the "eternal woman."
"The fantasy of the heavenly, eternal feminine fits such a state of affairs. It still warms the lonely hearts and empty days of a celibate bureaucracy that is slowly dying out. I have no problems with that, as long as it remains what it is: a romantic dream. Any good psychiatrist could help you more that I am able to do by uncovering the roots of your fear and of your desire for motherly protection.
"However, if you dare to speak for Catholic women worldwide, your legitimacy must be challenged. ... Catholic Christian women see their life and dignity as centered in G*d, rather than in heterosexist marriage and motherhood. ...
"In short, during the past decades women have struggled valiantly to secure civil rights and protections from the death-dealing powers of violence perpetrated by heterosexist, patriarchal family structures. ... It is more than ironic that in the name of Jesus Christ, who rejected all loyalty to patriarchal family, Vatican representatives should confess allegiance to such family values and proclaim the patriarchal institution of the heterosexist family as "the community of love" which guarantees the rights of women. ..."
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Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza. "Memorandum to the Vatican Delegation to the Fourth World Conference on Women." Conscience (newsletter of 'Catholics' for a Free Choice), Spring/Summer 1995 [Volume XVI, Numbers 1 and 2], page 5.
Firestone, Shulamith (Neofeminist)
"Engels did observe that the original division of labor was between man and woman for the purposes of childbreeding; that within the family. The husband was the owner, the wife the means of production; the children the labor; and that reproduction of the human species was an important economic system distinct from the means of production.
"Natural reproductive differences between the sexes led directly to the first division of labor based on sex, which is at the origins of all further division into economic and cultural classes. ... Thus, the 'natural' is not necessarily a 'human' value. Humanity has begun to outgrow nature; we can no longer justify the maintenance of a discriminatory sex class system on the grounds of its origins in Nature. Indeed, for pragmatic reasons alone it is beginning to look as if we must get rid of it. ... We must have a reversion to an unobstructed pansexuality — Freud's 'polymorphous perversity' — which would probably supersede hetero/homo/bi-sexuality.
"So that just to assure elimination of economic classes requires the revolt of the underclass (the proletariat) and, in a temporary dictatorship, their seizure of the means of production, so to assure the elimination of sexual classes requires the revolt of the underclass (women) and the seizure of control of reproduction: The restoration to women of ownership of their own bodies, as well as feminine control of human fertility, including both the new technology and all the social institutions of childbearing and childrearing. And just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic class distinction itself, so the end goal of feminist revolution must be, unlike that of the first feminist movement, not just the elimination of male privilege but of the sex distinction itself; genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.
"The reproduction of the species by one sex for the benefit of both would be replaced by (at least the option of) artificial reproduction; children would be born to both sexes equally, or independently of either, however, one chooses to look at it.
"We must include the oppression of children in any program for feminist revolution. ... Our final step must be the elimination of the very conditions of femininity and childhood.
"The incest taboo is now necessary only in order to preserve the family; then if we did away with the family we would in effect be doing away with the repressions that mold sexuality into specific formations. All other things being equal, people might still prefer those of the opposite sex simply because it is physically more convenient. ... If early sexual repression is the basic mechanism by which character structures supporting political, ideological, and economic serfdom are produced, an end to the incest taboo, through the abolition of the family, could have profound effects. Sexuality would be released from its straitjacket to eroticize our whole culture, changing its very definition.
"Pregnancy is barbaric. Pregnancy is the temporary deformation of the body of the individual for the sake of the species. ... Moreover, childbirth hurts. And it isn't good for you. Childbirth is at best necessary and tolerable. It is not fun. Like s***ting a pumpkin ... But-look-you-get-a-reward, says the School: A-baby-all-your-own-to-f***-up-as-you-please.
"Adult/child and homosexual sex taboos would disappear, as well as nonsexual friendship. ... All close relationships would include the physical."
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Shulamith Firestone. The Dialectic of Sex [New York City: Bantam Books], 1972, pages 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 59, 60, 198, 199 and 240 [emphasis in the original].
Fitzherbert, Claudia
"... all those Catholic wives whose desire for sex has been effectively scotched by repeated child-bearing and the fear of more of the same would not be sinning were they to take the Pill purely in response to the bullying demands of their menfolk."
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Claudia FitzHerbert, in an April 30, 1996 letter to the London Daily Telegraph, quoted in "Pill 'Unacceptable' for Mentally Handicapped." [London] Catholic Herald, May 3, 1996.
Fitzsimmons, Ron (National Coalition of Abortion Providers (NCAP))
"When you're a doctor who does these abortions and the leaders of your movement appear before Congress and go on network news and say these procedures are done in only the most tragic of circumstances, how do you think it makes you feel? You know they're primarily done on healthy women and healthy fetuses, and it makes you feel like a dirty little abortionist with a dirty little secret. I think we should tell them the truth, let them vote and move on."
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Ron Fitzsimmons, Executive Director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers (NCAP), American Medical News, March 3, 1997.
Fleming, Anne Taylor
"If either of the two [Madonna or Michael Jackson] is the logical heir to Marilyn Monroe, it is clearly Michael Jackson, who is the more bruised and authentically vulnerable of the two. ... Not only is he black and white, male and female, but also young and old, hip and square, the crotch-grabbing self-appointed guardian of the world's children."
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"MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour" essayist Anne Taylor Fleming, April 7, 1993.
Fletcher, John (Hastings Center 'bioethicist')
"Most parents in our society, if given the choice, would prefer the abortion of an affected fetus to a sick child who requires anything but the most trivial care. This preference is likely to become more definite with rapidly changing attitudes towards abortion at a time when the low risks of amniocentesis will become fully established and when simple abortion techniques become available ... For this ethicist, the feedback from amniocentesis not only affects the status of the newborn defective, but makes plausible its euthanasia."
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John Fletcher. "Attitudes Towards Defective Newborns." Hastings Center Studies, January 1974. Page 31.
"With the availability of the technology and know-how permitting prevention of many genetically-based congenital abnormalities, there may be developing as a corollary a social attitude which demands such use. In general, if a congenital abnormality can be avoided, then it should be avoided, and those individuals who do not partake of these advances will be socially ostracized."
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John Fletcher, quoted in Sorenson, "Some Social and Psychological Issues in Genetic Screening." Symposium on Intrauterine Diagnosis (D. Bergsma, editor). 1971, page 177.
Fletcher, Joseph ('bioethicist')
"It is ridiculous to give ethical approval to the positive ending of sub-human life in utero, as we do in therapeutic abortions, but refuse to approve of positively ending a sub-human life in extremis [after birth]."
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Hastings Center 'ethicist' Joseph Fletcher. "Four Indicators of Humanhood — the Enquiry Matures." Hastings Center Report, December 1974.
"Positive Human Criteria.
(1)
Minimal intelligence: Anyone with an IQ under 40 is questionably human. Anyone with an IQ less than 20 is definitely non-human.
(2)
Self-awareness: Newborn babies are not self-aware and therefore not human. This quality develops at about one year of age.
(3)
Self-control: If a person lacks self-control, he is on a low level of life comparable to a paramecium.
(4)
A sense of time: Anyone without a good sense of the passage of time is not human.
(5)
A sense of the future. How 'truly human' is any man who cannot realize there is a time yet to come?
(6)
A sense of the past: A focus on 'nowness' truncates the nature of man.
(7)
The capability to relate to others, particularly in relationships of the sexual-romantic and friendship kind.
(8)
Concern for others: Lack of this ambience indicates psychopathology.
(9)
Communication: Completely isolated individuals are sub-persons.
(10)
Control of existence: Ignorance and total helplessness are the antithesis of humanness.
(11)
Curiosity: Without a certain amount of curiosity, individuals are not persons deserving legal rights and protections.
(12)
Change and changeability: If an individual is opposed to change, he denies the creativity of personal beings.
(13)
Balance of rationality and feeling: To be 'truly human,' one cannot be either Apollonian [extremely rational and logical in character] or Dionysian [of frenzied and emotional character].
(14)
Idiosyncrasy: To be a person is to have an identity, to be recognizable and callable by name.
(15)
Neo-cortical function: Before cerebration [thinking] is in play, the person is non-existent. Such individuals are objects, not subjects.
"Negative Human Criteria.
(1)
Man is not non-artificial or anti-artificial.
(2)
Man is not essentially parental.
(3)
Man is not essentially sexual.
(4)
Man is not a bundle of rights. All rights are imperfect and may be set aside if human need requires it.
(5)
Man is not a worshipper."
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'Ethicist' Joseph Fletcher. "Indicators of Humanhood: A Tentative Profile of Man." Hastings Center Report. Volume 2, Number 5, November, 1972 [NOTE: If implemented, Fletcher's criteria would cause more than 100 large groups of persons to automatically lose their humanity. These groups would include the following, and would comprise approximately one-fifth of the human population — all infants under one year of age; twins and triplets; all celibate persons; the profoundly retarded; habitual drunkards and drug addicts; prisoners; all comatose persons; pro-life activists; emotional persons; and all religious persons. Fletcher would casually kill the 260,000 United States citizens with IQs of less than 25, and the 630,000 with IQs of from 25 to 49].
"Some form of direct termination would have been far more merciful as far as the infant, nurses, parents, and some of the physicians were concerned. In that case, indirect was morally worse than direct — if, as I and most of us would contend, the good and the right are determined by human well-being. Indirect euthanasia did no good at all in that case, but lots of evil."
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Joseph Fletcher. Humanhood: Essays in Biomedical Ethics. Prometheus Books, 1979, page 142. Quoted in Joseph R. Stanton, M.D. "From Feticide to Infanticide." The Human Life Review, Summer 1982, page 40 [NOTE: Fletcher is referring to a case in the early 1970s, when a mongoloid child with a small section of atrophied duodenum (which could easily have been corrected by a 20-minute surgery) was born at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The decision was made not to "treat" this child (including the withholding of food and water), and the baby lingered agonizingly for fifteen long days before dying].
"It is reasonable to describe infanticide as post-natal abortion ... Infanticide is actually a very humane thing when you are dealing with misbegotten infants. We might have to encourage it under certain conditionalities of excess population, especially when you're dealing with defective children."
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Joseph Fletcher. "Infanticide and the Ethics of Loving Concern." Infanticide and the Value of Life. Prometheus Books, 1978. Quoted by C. Everett Koop, M.D. "The Slide to Auschwitz." Human Life Review, Summer 1982, page 36.
"Speaking at a recent conference of the Hemlock Society — an organization whose primary purpose is the legalization of death by choice — Dr. Joseph Fletcher, the 'father of situation ethics,' reminisced about the days when both he and Margaret Sanger joined the Euthanasia Society of America, 'thus linking the two [abortion and euthanasia] causes so to speak — the right to be selective about parenthood and the right to be selective about living.' Fletcher explained, 'We've added death control to birth control as a part of the ethos of life style in our society.'"
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Joseph Fletcher, quoted in Rita Marker. "School Based Clinics: A Movement to Create a New Society." Human Life Center Report, 1988, page 25.
"People who carry genetic disease should be prevented from having children. We ought, in conscience, to have a humane minimum standard of reproduction, not blindly accepting the outcome of every conception. And we ought to act on our genetic information to prevent the birth of children below that minimum."
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'Bioethicist' Joseph Fletcher, during his address of the second national Symposium on Genetics and Law, held in May of 1979 in Boston and sponsored by the March of Dimes.
"The attack [by pro-lifers on IVF] includes a condemnation of sacrifice even of a zygote as a form of abortion, abortion being held to be (as such) immoral. This means that embryology, fetology, and all forms of laboratory reproduction are immoral — that physicians and scientists are murderers.
"I respect the ethics of scientists, which is primarily a love for and search for the facts, but some scientists seem to have an almost blind faith that somehow the facts will be used to good purposes, not misused for evil.
"If the greatest good of the greatest number (i.e., the social good) were served by it, it would be justifiable not only to specialize the capacities of people by cloning or by constructive genetic engineering, but also to bio-engineer or bio-design para-humans or "modified men" — as chimeras (part animal) or cyborg-androids (part prostheses). I would vote for cloning top-grade soldiers and scientists, or for supplying them through other genetic means, if they were needed to offset an elitist or tyrannical power plot by other cloners — a truly science-fiction situation, but imaginable. I suspect I would favor making and using man-machine hybrids rather than genetically designed people for dull, unrewarding or dangerous roles needed nonetheless for the community's welfare — perhaps the testing of suspected pollution areas or the investigation of threatening volcanos or snow-slides.
"People who appeal to Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four and Fahrenheit 451 forget this, that the tyranny is set up first and then genetic controls are employed.
"Coital reproduction, is, therefore, less human than laboratory reproduction — more fun, to be sure, but with our separation of baby making from lovemaking, both become more human because they are matters of choice, and not chance. This is, of course, essentially the case for planned parenthood. I cannot see how either humanity or morality are served by genetic roulette.
"To be men we must be in control. That is the first and the last ethical word. For when there is no choice, there is no possibility of ethical action. Whatever we are compelled to do is a-moral.
"Rights are nothing but a formal recognition by society of certain human needs, and as needs change with changing conditions, so rights should change too. The right to conceive and bear children has to stop short of knowingly making crippled children — and genetics gives us that knowledge ... It is human need that validates rights, not the other way around."
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'Bioethicist' Joseph Fletcher. "Ethical Aspects of Genetic Controls." New England Journal of Medicine (285:776-783, 1971). Available as Reprint #104 from the Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences, Hastings-On-Hudson, New York 10706.
"It is ridiculous to give ethical approval to the ending of a subhuman life by abortion while refusing to give approval to the ending of a subhuman life by positive euthanasia. If we are morally obliged to put an end to a pregnancy when an amniocentesis reveals a terribly defective fetus, we are equally obliged to put an end to a patient's hopeless misery when a brain scan reveals that a patient with cancer has advanced brain metastases."
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Joseph Fletcher. American Journal of Nursing, November 1973.
"The womb is a dark and dangerous place, a hazardous environment. We should want our potential children to be where they can watched and protected as much as possible."
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Joseph Fletcher. The Ethics of Genetic Control. Garden City, New Jersey: Doubleday Press, 1979, page 103.
Flynn, Tom
"But times had changed; the personhood argument on which the "New Morality" case turned — still the most logically consistent moral defense of abortion — had become a tougher sell. Then inspiration struck.
"Perhaps it wouldn't be necessary to convince millions of people that abortion was licit. Perhaps abortion could be reduced to a secondary issue and subordinated to some value that already enjoyed wide acceptance. This was the genesis of "pro-choice," which quickly displaced the movement's earlier, explicitly pro-abortion platform. It was a packaging breakthrough. Why struggle with deep moral conflicts if a quick appeal to pluralism will co-opt millions into supporting abortion rights despite their continued feeling that abortion is wrong?
""Nobody is for abortion," at least one speaker will intone at any pro-choice rally. The implication is that decent people will always disdain it. That is precisely the attitude we should be fighting to change ... Secular humanists need to dispute the pro-choice litany that "Nobody is for abortion." We must be for abortion ..."
"Had this [abortion] debate run its course, consensus might have settled on a standard substantially more permissive than the viability based, twenty-four week criterion established by Roe v. Wade — perhaps even abortion on demand throughout pregnancy.
"Unfortunately, Roe v. Wade interrupted the process in 1973. Abortion became the law of the land before most Americans had been convinced that it was morally licit."
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Humanist writer Tom Flynn. "'Pro-Choice:' Wrong Turn for Abortion Rights?" Free Inquiry ("An International Secular Humanist Magazine"), Winter 1991/92, pages 6 and 7.
Flynt, Larry (pornographer)
"Dear (God/Allah/Buddha/other entity of your choice), we ask you to afflict Bill O'Reilly with a brain aneurysm that will lead to his slow and painful death. ... [O'Reilly] would like America to believe he's a voice for the populace, but he's nothing more than a right wing shill who tries to destroy the careers of those he disagrees with."
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Porn magazine Hustler publisher Larry Flynt's "prayer" for his "National Prayer Day" on August 5, 2003, whose purpose was to "pray for the death of [FOX News Channel host] Bill O'Reilly." Quoted in Marc Morano. "Larry Flynt Issues Call to 'Pray' for Death of Bill O'Reilly." NewsMax.com, August 6, 2003 [NOTE: Flynt spokesman Sean Carney said that "He [O'Reilly] has attacked some people that we really love, like [rap singer] Ludacris and [porn movie actress] Jenna Jamison. Bill O'Reilly treated them terribly and tried to ruin Ludacris' career ... really awful stuff." So now we have it — pornographers believe that disagreeing with them or criticizing obscene rappers or porn stars deserve the death penalty].
Fo, Dario (anti-Catholic 'playwright')
[The play features] "a heroin-addicted, paranoid Pope called John Paul II, along with scheming priests, bumbling nuns and monks, corrupt cops and other assorted worthies from Fo's stable of demons."
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Ad for the Irondale Ensemble Project's performance of Dario Fo's "The Pope and the Witch" at the Theatre for the New City in New York's East Village, described in Newsday, April 26, 2000. Described in Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. 2000 Report on Anti-Catholicism, available on-line at the Catholic League's Web site here [NOTE: In this play, the pope is depicted as advocating birth control and the legalization of drugs. Both the Irondale Ensemble Project and the Theatre for the New City are funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)].
Fonda, "Hanoi" Jane (actress)
This is Jane Fonda. During my two week visit in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, I've had the opportunity to visit a great many places and speak to a large number of people from all walks of life — workers, peasants, students, artists and dancers, historians, journalists, film actresses, soldiers, militia girls, members of the women's union, writers.
I visited the (Dam Xuac) agricultural coop, where the silk worms are also raised and thread is made. I visited a textile factory, a kindergarten in Hanoi. The beautiful Temple of Literature was where I saw traditional dances and heard songs of resistance. I also saw unforgettable ballet about the guerrillas training bees in the south to attack enemy soldiers. The bees were danced by women, and they did their job well.
In the shadow of the Temple of Literature I saw Vietnamese actors and actresses perform the second act of Arthur Miller's play All My Sons, and this was very moving to me — the fact that artists here are translating and performing American plays while US imperialists are bombing their country.
I cherish the memory of the blushing militia girls on the roof of their factory, encouraging one of their sisters as she sang a song praising the blue sky of Vietnam — these women, who are so gentle and poetic, whose voices are so beautiful, but who, when American planes are bombing their city, become such good fighters.
I cherish the way a farmer evacuated from Hanoi, without hesitation, offered me, an American, their best individual bomb shelter while US bombs fell nearby. The daughter and I, in fact, shared the shelter wrapped in each others arms, cheek against cheek. It was on the road back from Nam Dinh, where I had witnessed the systematic destruction of civilian targets — schools, hospitals, pagodas, the factories, houses, and the dike system.
As I left the United States two weeks ago, Nixon was again telling the American people that he was winding down the war, but in the rubble-strewn streets of Nam Dinh, his words echoed with sinister (words indistinct) of a true killer. And like the young Vietnamese woman I held in my arms clinging to me tightly — and I pressed my cheek against hers — I thought, this is a war against Vietnam perhaps, but the tragedy is America's.
One thing that I have learned beyond a shadow of a doubt since I've been in this country is that Nixon will never be able to break the spirit of these people; he'll never be able to turn Vietnam, north and south, into a neo-colony of the United States by bombing, by invading, by attacking in any way. One has only to go into the countryside and listen to the peasants describe the lives they led before the revolution to understand why every bomb that is dropped only strengthens their determination to resist.
I've spoken to many peasants who talked about the days when their parents had to sell themselves to landlords as virtually slaves, when there were very few schools and much illiteracy, inadequate medical care, when they were not masters of their own lives.
But now, despite the bombs, despite the crimes being created — being committed against them by Richard Nixon, these people own their own land, build their own schools — the children learning, literacy — illiteracy is being wiped out, there is no more prostitution as there was during the time when this was a French colony.
In other words, the people have taken power into their own hands, and they are controlling their own lives.
And after 4,000 years of struggling against nature and foreign invaders — and the last 25 years, prior to the revolution, of struggling against French colonialism — I don't think that the people of Vietnam are about to compromise in any way, shape or form about the freedom and independence of their country, and I think Richard Nixon would do well to read Vietnamese history, particularly their poetry, and particularly the poetry written by Ho Chi Minh.
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Public domain transcript of "Hanoi" Jane Fonda's broadcast from the Hotel Especen, Hanoi, North Vietnam, on August 22, 1972 [[United States Congress House Committee on Internal Security, Travel to Hostile Areas, HR 16742, 19-25 September, 1972, page 7,671].
"The whole issue of choice has nothing to do with the fetus. Have you ever asked yourself why [pro-life people] have so much concern for the egg while it's growing inside a woman, but so little concern for the child once it's born? For anti-abortion activists, it seems life begins at conception and ends at birth. ... There is no research to date to show that abstinence-only programs prevent risky sexual behavior. You can never have an abortion if you're not pregnant ... so why is it that people who are opposed to abortion are also opposed to contraception? [Opposing abortion] is the same mind-set that opposes the notion of women working. It's a view that doesn't reflect reality and ignores the concept that women are contributing members of society."
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Excerpts from Jane Fonda's keynote speech during the annual Utahns for Choice dinner at the downtown DoubleTree Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah, on June 27, 2000.
"Children are starving to death [in Georgia] and people live in tar-paper shacks."
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Jane Fonda, promoting her latest population control measure, G-CAPP, which aims to reduce teenage pregnancy in Georgia by 25 percent by 2001. Quoted in Pro-Abortion Star Caught in a Lie." LifeSite Daily News at http://www.lifesite.net, April 20, 1998 [NOTE: After Georgia Governor Zell Miller demanded an apology, Fonda said "I was wrong. I should not have said what I said. ... My comments were inaccurate and ill-advised"].
Fonte, Moderata
"Men are just like unlit lamps; in themselves they are no good for anything, but, when lit, they can be handy to have around the house."
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Moderata Fonte. The Worth of Women: Wherein is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men (1592), quoted in "Early Feminist." Parade Magazine, October 26, 1997, page 7.
Ford Foundation
"Over the past sixteen years, the Ford Foundation has devoted $100 million to work directed to world population problems — more than any other agency, public or private. We in the Foundation believe that the quality of life is threatened by excessive rates of population growth. ... We believe, therefore, that a foundation concerned with human welfare must give high priority to helping nations reduce their fertility."
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Oscar Harkavy, Lyle Saunders and Anna L. Southam of the Ford Foundation. "An Overview of the Ford Foundation's Strategy for Population Work." Demography [Volume 5, Number 2, 1968], pages 541 to 552.
Foreman, David (founder of Earth First!)
"I would not encourage anyone to monkeywrench; that is an entirely personal decision. More importantly, I would not want to discourage anyone from monkeywrenching. Those willing to commit ecotage are needed today as never before."
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David Foreman, founder of Earth First!, quoted by a writer for the Anarchist Newsletter Business As Usual, further quoted in New Dimensions Magazine, December 1989, page 42.
Foreman, Tom (ABC News)
"Increasingly, people are saying that all of the violence had very little to do with Rodney King. Instead, it was the desperate call of a community fighting for change."
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ABC reporter Tom Foreman, May 3, 1992 "World News Sunday," commenting on the Los Angeles riots that killed more than 50 people and caused billions of dollars in property damage.
Fornos, Werner (President of the Population Institute)
"Dear Friend,
"Congress is waging war against the United Nations.
"The Radical Right is battling the U.N. with an instrument of destruction far more insidious than artillery.
"Its weapon is blatant ignorance. And it damages every citizen in the world.
"Consider the recent congressional amendment to the 1996 foreign aid bill — aimed at prohibiting the U.S. from contributing to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).
"Or the inflammatory rhetoric heard in Congressional debates on House Bill 1561 that accuses the UNFPA of supporting China's "new policy of eugenics reminiscent of the Nazis ..."
"Regressive, self-serving, Dark-Ages ignorance has seeped into the hallowed halls of Washington. ...
"What conscionable [sic] American would not find this vendetta grossly offensive? Moreover, why are we allowing this to happen?
"We all share responsibility for learning the truth.
"Lest we put all the blame on Congress for our current, deplorable state of affairs, it's important to note how uneducated the American public actually is in regard to the issues of overpopulation and foreign aid, and to the mission of the Population Institute itself. ...
"Because of the Population Institute's support of the United Nations, family planning and the rights of women worldwide, the Institute is once more under attack by those who want to turn back the clock. ... Our stand has always been that every woman has the right to choose whether or not to become pregnant. We favor contraception rather than abortion. Nonetheless, we have been labeled as anti-life. As we have so often in the past, we will once more explain our purpose: to create awareness of the population problem, and to develop leadership to solve that problem.
"We intend to win this exhausting fight against forced "morality" that has not changed since the days before the Enlightenment. ... Tell your elected officials you're outraged by the thought of America turning its back on the rest of the world. Tell them that the Radical Right agenda has no place in government [NOTE: After all, they think, government is the exclusive domain of the Radical Left agenda]. ...
"Even more importantly during these critical days, your assistance will support the Population Institute's efforts to improve communications regarding the dangers of overpopulation, set the public record straight wherever it strays, and combat the invasive forces of right-wing extremism. ..."
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September 1991 fundraising letter by the Population Institute, signed by its president, Werner Fornos [emphasis in the original] [NOTE: See how incoherently outraged the Population Institute becomes when Americans simply say "we don't want to fund forced abortions and sterilizations any more." This is completely typical of anti-life groups: They expect us to fund their entire agenda, and to shut the hell up if we don't like it].
Forrester, Jay (economist)
"Biological cancer grows until it kills the host on which it is living and thereby kills itself. ... And I think mankind, in the world environment, is quite capable of following that same scenario."
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Economist Jay Forrester, on David Suzuki's 1989 radio series "It's a Matter of Survival." Quoted by Terence Corcoran. "David Suzuki's Gloomy World of Nothingness." National Post, April 8, 1999, and on LifeSite News Special Report, December 15, 1999.
Fortier, Lise (abortionist)
"Each and every pregnancy threatens a woman's life. From a strict medical viewpoint, every pregnancy should be aborted."
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Abortionist Lise Fortier at the 1980 national convention of the National Abortion Federation (NAF), quoted in Andrew Scholberg. "The Abortionists and Planned Parenthood: Familiar Bedfellows." International Review of Natural Family Planning, Winter 1980, page 308.
Foster, Jodie (actress)
"Shame is a big part of my generation's past. It colors a lot of what they've done. This is a different generation today. It's hard to shame young people nowadays It wasn't true in the '70s, though. Religion still had a stranglehold on our psyches."
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Actress Jodie Foster, quoted in "Jodie Foster Attacks 'Stranglehold' of Religion." NewsMax.com, June 24, 2002 [NOTE: Foster was discussing her movie "The Dangerous Life of Altar Boys," a diatribe about attending Catholic school in the 1970s. Foster plays a one-legged nun with a mean temper and a meaner backhand. Foster seems to be pretty free of shame, however; she's had two children without a husband or even a boyfriend].
Foucault, Michel
"It is quite difficult to lay down barriers [particularly since] it could be that the child, with his own sexuality, may have desired the adult."
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Michel Foucault speaking against age-of-consent laws, as cited in James Miller's The Passion of Michel Foucault [New York City: Simon and Schuster], 1992. This quote was downloaded from the Web site of the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) at http://www.nambla.org on April 15, 1998, under the section entitled "What People Are Saying About NAMBLA and Man/Boy Love."
Foundation for Optimal Planetary Survival (FOPS)
"Stephen Mumford courageously exposes the papal plot against population control. The Vatican and the far Right are not alone, however, in promoting the unlimited migration — the ultimate consequence of overpopulation. By rigidly adhering to 'tradition,' rabbis, ministers and so-called human-rights advocates of every ilk are sacrificing future life on Earth by their misguided compassion ..."
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Susu Levy, President, Foundation for Optimal Planetary Survival (FOPS), favorably commenting on Stephen Mumford's virulently anti-Catholic on-line book The Life and Death of NSSM 200: How the Destruction of Political Will Doomed a U.S. Population Policy, downloaded from http://www.iti.com/iti/kzpg on September 22, 1998 (no longer available). The comment is included in the document.
Fox, Matthew ("New Age" guru)
"I say 'thank you' for the orange that dies for me this morning when I drink a glass of orange juice by promising to be as succulent and round and radiant as an orange throughout the day."
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Former Catholic priest Matthew Fox. Creation Spirituality, page 53 [NOTE: On the same page, Fox describes a friend who "liberates" ice cubes from freezers at gas stations by throwing them into nearby ponds].
Francis, Diane
Most disappointing were the anti-abortion remarks by Alberta's Stockwell Day. He has tried to distance himself from the issue and has never spoken of outlawing abortions. But he should totally disavow his stance. This viewpoint is unacceptable to Canadians. Abortion is nobody else's business except the woman who decides she must undergo such a procedure. Put another way, any law that would force someone to have child she did not want, or could not look after or have to put up or adoption, would be an act of state-sanctioned violence. ... And those fringe fundamentalists who have found a home in his camp should accede to the majority or start their own party. ... But social conservatives, who would pass anti-abortion laws, promise to create governments more interventionist than any dreamed of by the wildest socialists.
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Diane Francis. "Manning Looks Like a Leader." National Post [Canada], June 22, 2000.
Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF)
"The historic, compassionate Supreme Court ruling of Jan. 22, 1973, freed millions of women from sexual servitude and from the dangerous, traumatic search for illegal abortions. This ruling, our country's greatest step forward in social and moral progress since the abolition of slavery, must be protected politically by the activism of individuals who write letters to legislators, attend hearings, visit their Congresspersons, and support groups working to keep abortion safe and legal. ...
"I have become impatient not only with those religious zealots who tiresomely hiss "Murderers," but with those apologists who, while granting the right to abortion, insist that somehow a woman must feel guilt and remorse. I have come to suspect that the persons who refer to abortion as "a tragic option," or "a terrible alternative," hold allegiance not to women's freedom but to a male-dominated world gone by. ...
"I have written this book to share my feelings and experiences so that others might come to see why abortion is a blessing, not only for women but for society. ...
"Babies having babies is a cruelty beyond compare. We do not let our immature animals breed, but our girl children — well, "that's fate" [NOTE: Of course, babies killing babies is all right, according to Gaylor]. ... A social worker told me of her attempts — unsuccessful — to secure an abortion for a mother of eight retarded children, to prevent the birth of a ninth retarded child [NOTE: This is just one of the many highly improbably "hard cases" sprinkled throughout Gaylor's book. How likely is it that a woman would give birth to nine mentally handicapped babies in a row? Of course, all of the stories in Gaylor's book are conveniently anonymous, and she never mentions cases like careless college girls who just like to fornicate and don't like using birth control].
"In the spring of 1970 I referred about forty of the women who could not be helped in Wisconsin to Mexico. Through Bob McCoy, a Minnesota pioneer in abortion reform, I learned of a clinic in Mexico City that charged $300 and that Bob had checked out for safety and considerate treatment of women. Abortion was illegal in Mexico (still is), but the practitioners reportedly paid off the chief of police and were able to operate unmolested. ... The [Mexican] clinic was sanitary and comfortable. Here is an excerpt from one report sent in from an out-of-state referral:
Things were really good down in Mexico City. Everything happens so fast there is almost an aura of fantasy. The clinic (more like a mansion really) is very nice and comfortable.
"There were about seventeen women there the morning I had the D & C done, plus some in the afternoon. They get you up right after and feed you fruit and drink and cookies right away — helps take your mind off the cramping.
"Some of us went sightseeing that afternoon. Mexico City is really nice, and I had no trouble at all with any facet of the journey or my stay there.
"One young woman, with whom I spent quite a bit of time before she flew down because she was unusually tense and unhappy, came back calm and relaxed. She gave me all the factual information including the friends she made and the sights she saw, and then added, somewhat apologetically, "You know, in a way it was almost fun." I don't know when a remark has left me more cheerful. I thought of all the women who had been forced to go into dark alleys and back rooms and deal with perverted, unskilled, unsanitary practitioners, and I could only rejoice that for some women abortions were being done in a safe setting with supportive people, and that the whole trip could be "almost fun." Civilization has been a long time finding women.
"The stereotype of the abortion candidate is that of a young, single woman, working or in college [NOTE: This is certainly not a "stereotype." According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, the research arm of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, four out of five women obtaining abortions are unmarried]. ... Since I knew that out of every one hundred patients, the clinic could expect two to be victims of rape and three to be victims of incest [NOTE: This is simply nonsense. Pro-abortion studies show that less than one-half of one percent of all abortions are done for all of the "hard cases" done together, including life and health of the mother, birth defects and rape and incest]. ...
"The shrillness of the antiabortion clamor in this country has not lessened with the United States Supreme Court decision in 1973. ... That the antiabortion forces have numbers and money is not in doubt [NOTE: Numbers, yes; money, definitely not. Pro-abortionists in the United States outspend pro-lifers by a factor of about forty to one] ... Advocates of the right to choose abortion have too often allowed their opponents' tactics of distortion to go unchallenged. Chronically, antiabortionists represent abortion as involving an elephantine fetus about to walk and talk, when, in truth, the typical abortion has more in common with a menstrual period. With outrageous disregard for truth, antiabortionists have been allowed to portray an embryo or fetus as a person, while the story of the real person involved, the only person involved — the woman who has an abortion — has gone untold. Almost every grass-roots community in America has had the opportunity to see the antiabortionists' distorted, inaccurate, gory slide presentations [NOTE: Hmmmm ... this quotes database shows that it is the pro-aborts, not the pro-lifers, who have been caught in lies over and over again] ... Had the proponents of legal abortion had the access to money, to schools and churches, and to the media that the antis have had, the only proponents of a ban on abortions in this country today would be those zealots who oppose not only abortion but contraception, and in the final analysis, sex itself [NOTE: It seems that Gaylor, like all other pro-abortionists, profess to hate stereotyping while freely using it themselves]. ...
"Antiabortionists love to refer to the 1972 Michigan referendum, in which a proposition to legalize abortion was defeated 61-39 per cent, but that particular referendum probably only proves that the Catholic Church has a lot of money. ... Tyranny is always better organized than freedom. ... It is of questionable constitutionality, of course, to put individual rights out to referendum. It's as undemocratic as letting Alabama and Mississippi decide whether blacks should vote. Basic human rights, including a woman's right to control her own reproductive life, are guaranteed by the Constitution. They are not to be decided by popular referenda or church edicts or male legislatures [NOTE: This is a great summary of how the pro-aborts are anti-Democratic and why they always go through the court system to get their way — because the people do not support them].
"Those who oppose abortion are not "right-to-lifers," they are antiabortionists or compulsory-pregnancy people.
"Those who adhere to the pure Catholic doctrine, and do not believe in abortion even to save a woman's life (and there are a surprising number of these on the speaking circuit), quite properly can be described as being against the right to life for women. Remind your audience that before abortion was legalized in the United States, many thousands of women were admitted every year to hospitals for care after botched abortions, and another 300 women died each year from backstreet or self-induced abortions [NOTE: At least Gaylor does not parrot the "5,000 to 10,000" deaths lie made up by reformed abortionist Bernard Nathanson, but she still exaggerates the true number of illegal abortion deaths by at least three hundred percent]. ... Although these [hospital admission] figures are not broken down and include spontaneous abortions, therapeutic abortions, and induced abortions, there were 358,000 such [hospital] admissions in 1965, a figure that fell to 282,000 by 1971, when legal abortions were becoming regionally available.) Anyone wanting to return women to that situation does not respect life [NOTE: Gaylor, not surprisingly, does not provide a citation for these hugely inflated figures].
"The antiabortionists like to proclaim that theirs is an ecumenical movement, and not predominantly Catholic. Although statistics on the composition of their various groups are not public information, anyone who reads their literature, subscribes to their national newspaper, or attends one of their state or national gatherings cannot avoid the impression that Catholics are running the show [NOTE: Well, excuuuuuuse us!]. ... When you scan lists of groups opposing abortion, you find all of them are religious in nature. Organized religion has done great harm to women. The pervading put-down of women detectable throughout the Bible, the myth of Eve's sin, the ludicrousness of a virgin birth (as though there really were something wrong with ordinary sex) — all this has damaged women. The desire of so many clergymen to keep women subservient, dependent, voiceless, is in itself an appalling commentary on both religion and male supremacy. Man has stood for so long with one foot on woman's neck that he finds he cannot stand up any other way. The posture is crippling. ...
"Almost the only women asking for second trimester (four to six month inclusive) abortions, in areas where abortion can be found easily, are teen-agers who have been afraid to tell anyone they are pregnant, women with highly irregular periods who have no way of knowing they are pregnant, or women who think they are in menopause and discover it is pregnancy [NOTE: As usual, Gaylor is resorting to propaganda here. According to the preliminary report Abortions in Kansas 2001, late-term abortionist George Tiller killed 635 babies aged 22 weeks gestation or greater; 395 viable babies using the "mental health" exception; no babies to save the life of a pregnant woman, and no babies in the context of a medical emergency. During the period 1999-2001 alone, Tiller killed 1,848 babies aged 22 weeks gestation or greater; 1,077 viable babies using the "mental health" exception, of which more than 75% had no fetal anomalies whatsoever. During these three years, Tiller committed no abortions to save the life of the mother, and committed exactly one abortion in the context of a medical emergency].
"When the Catholic Church is trying to ram its doctrine down the throats of everyone in sight, you are not going to beat them off if you tiptoe around saying how nice they are. There is no point in our pretending that official Catholic views are enlightened and humane, or that Catholics are not different from anyone else. Catholics are different from others — they are quite willing to associate themselves with an organization that has done and continues to do an immense amount of damage to women, to families, to countries, and to the world. If the Catholic doctrines on sex (no contraception, no sterilization, no abortion) could prevail, all the world would be miserable instead of just some of it. All the world would be hungry. The world would end [NOTE: Finally, Gaylor drops her pretense of caring for women and gets to the real point of the book — hysterical hatred of religion]. ... If people had chosen to tiptoe around other harmful organizations, for example the Ku Klux Klan, and say, "Oh, they mean well; they're really nice people," the Klan would prosper. All over the world there are miserable, starving, needy Catholic children. Why, in the name of morality, aren't they helping children already born, rather than trying to force unwilling women to produce more unwanted children? [NOTE: Gaylor is obviously ignorant of the fact that the Catholic Church does more charitable work among the poor than any other organization on Earth]. There is no way of assembling and evaluating the damage done to women, families, and society by the Catholic Church, but we can talk about it. Not to do so would be the equivalent of the emancipators of 120 years ago saying, "Oh, they own slaves, but they're nice people, so we won't say anything."
"A new wrinkle in hospital practice in cities having two or three hospitals is the channeling of maternity patients to one facility. All too often the facility chosen is a Catholic hospital, and women needing sterilizations at the time of delivery find their medical needs ignored because of religious prejudice [NOTE: You can see that, to pro-abortionists like Gaylor, there is no such thing as a pro-life or religious person opposing abortion for a legitimate reason, or in good will. We are all scary, conspiring, evil people to her incurably paranoid mind].
"No hospital should be allowed to deny emergency treatment to women. When a woman is having a fourth or fifth Caesarean section, she needs a tubal ligation; this is an emergency situation. When a woman becomes pregnant, who has diabetes or hypertension or a heart disorder or any of a dozen other serious conditions, she needs an abortion; these are emergency situations. Too many women suffer and die because hospital policy ranks higher with male physicians, male legislators, and male judges than women's lives and health.
"Since a medical education is the most expensive education we offer, and since the medical student pays for only a small portion of that education (15 percent at the University of Wisconsin, Madison), it is fair and proper that we expect certain things of these privileged persons. If a student wishes to become a gynecologist or obstetrician, the student should understand that she/he will be expected to help women with birth control and do tubal ligations and abortions. Medical students must be screened, and if they possess convictions that prevent their delivering certain medical care, then they should either specialize in an area where they cannot damage their patients with their personal beliefs, or perhaps they should consider the church, not medicine. ...
"For it is a truth that population is going to be controlled. If it is not controlled by women's and men's intellect, it will be controlled by famine, disease, and war. ... When most cultures regard women as breeding machines, and most of the world does just that, of course populations will grow. When you are brought up not to please yourself, but to please men, naturally you are going to breed. ... but if the role that is forced on you is that of wife and mother, you must be very strong indeed to overthrow tradition. When in school you are steered toward home economics or typing, and to become a cheerleader is the begin-all, end-all of existence, of course you are going to turn out to be a breeder.
"Male supremacists, fundamentalists, and the Catholic Church finally have met their match. Feminists will work until the freedom to choose abortion is extended to women everywhere."
"Ten of the twelve persons finally deciding Dr. Edelin's fate were Catholic. That card-carrying, dues-paying Catholics ever should have been allowed to serve on a jury deciding a charge of abortion-related manslaughter is a travesty of justice. They support the institution that is the major enemy of abortion in the world ÄÄ yet they were allowed to bring their religious bias to this legal setting [NOTE: Of course, Gaylor has no problem at all with "anti-religious" or atheist bias. Edelin strangled a late-term baby that he aborted. It did not seem to occur to Gaylor that her statement is equivalent to saying that no Jew should ever sit on a jury judging an American Nazi accused of committing hate crimes]. ... Dr. Edelin remained outwardly composed after the [guilty] verdict, but others in the courtroom did not. There were sobs and cries of disbelief as spectators said to each other, "How could they find him guilty?" Several women left the courtroom looking dazed and stunned; some were crying openly. ... Women ask for late abortions for serious and compelling reasons, and the option of late abortion must be kept open for all these tragic cases.
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Anne Nicol Gaylor, founder of the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF). Abortion is a Blessing [New York City: Psychological Dimensions, Inc.], 1975. Downloaded from the Web site of the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) at http://ffrf.org/books/AIAB/ on January 1, 2008.
"Back street abortionists flourished in the [New York City] area and going home at night Margaret Sanger often passed long lines of women waiting in front of the abortion "offices." Several times she counted over 100 women waiting."
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Anne Nicole Gaylor, founder and president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation and Editor of Freethought Today. "Tell Jake to Sleep on the Roof." Freethought Today, August 1996.
"Criticism of religion is discouraged and stifled [NOTE: What planet is Gaylor from? There are thousands of writers, authors, playwrights, movie producers, television and radio talk show hosts and other "celebrities" who make entire careers out of mocking and bashing the Church]. ... It remains socially unacceptable to point out the main objections which skeptics and freethinkers have to religion: That it is both untrue, and harmful. ... History is replete with the recorded abuses and savageries of organized religion when it comes to power. Human sacrifices to appease the gods. The Crusades. The Inquisition. The execution of millions of women under the direction of the bible. Pogroms against Jews. The Holocaust. Jonestown, Guyana [NOTE: Gaylor depends on silly exaggerations and lies generated by her fellow atheists, such as the old nonsense that "millions of women" were slaughtered by the Church. She also conveniently neglects to mention the largest slaughters of all, by Communists — and atheists — such as Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot and Mao Zedong] ... It should not be surprising that crime is connected to the religious mentality and its ideology: Such beliefs as original sin, the sacredness of gruesome bible teachings and inflexibility of moral codes, the absolution of sin through confession, a lack of personal responsibility for one's actions, and terrifying spectres of a jealous god and evil devils. ... If religion or any institution depends on the sexual subordination or exploitation of children or women, then it is better that such institutions should cease to exist."
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Anne Nicole Gaylor, founder and president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation and Editor of Freethought Today. "The Scandal of Pedophilia in the Church." From The Book Your Church Doesn't Want You to Read (Tim C. Leedom, editor) [Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company], 1993.
"My mother, Anne Gaylor, in working for the repeal of antiabortion laws in Wisconsin in the late sixties soon realized that the true enemy of abortion rights and all women's rights was organized religion. ... In fact, we are in the midst of a religious war not just against abortion rights, but women's rights in general, not just in our country, but worldwide.
"In this country, the religious terrorism is directed at birth control and abortion clinics, their patients, medical providers and staff. In Alabama, it is the Army of God bombing abortion clinics. In Algeria, it is terrorists from similarly named groups who are shooting schoolgirls on the streets for not wearing veils.
"In America, the foot soldiers of the Religious Right are engaged in their campaigns of terrorism, harassment, stalking, arsons, bombing, murder, trying to close down legal abortion clinics by force. They do all these things in the name of God. In Afghanistan, the radical Islamic Taliban that has taken over that country is literally halting all medical care for women — the hospitals in the capital city are already closed to women. They've done this, and worse, in the name of Allah. ...
"Every freedom won for women in this country, small or large — from wearing bloomers to riding bicycles to not wearing bonnets in church, to being permitted to speak in public, to attend universities, to enter professions, to vote and own property — was opposed by the churches. In the nineteen seventies and eighties, it was the churches — Catholic, fundamentalist Protestant and Mormon — which marshalled political forces to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment.
"And the most important right women have strived to obtain is the right to decide if and when to become a mother. Foes of women's freedom know that controlling women's reproduction is the ultimate way to control women. That is why when it comes to abortion, religious opponents are not just hurling bibles. They are hurtling bombs.
"This is a religious war against women because it relies on threats, force, violence, harassment, terrorism. ..."
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Anne Nicole Gaylor, founder and president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation and Editor of Freethought Today. "The Religious War Against Women." Freethought Today, April 1998.
"There is no point in our pretending that official Catholic views are enlightened and humane, or that Catholics are not different from anyone else. Catholics are different from others — they are quite willing to associate themselves with an organization that has done and continues to do an immense amount of damage to women, to families, to countries, and to the world. If the Catholic doctrines on sex could prevail, all the world would be miserable instead of just some of it. All the world would be hungry. The world would end."
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Anne Nicol Gaylor. Abortion is a Blessing [New York City: Psychological Dimensions, Inc.], 1975, pages 57, 81, and 84.
Freedom Socialist
"If abortion is made illegal, we will defy the law. We will maintain and extend abortion access for poor women. We will keep the clinics open! And if you want a war, you've got one!" [emphasis in original].
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"Feminists Tell Off Supreme Court: "We'll Never Go Back!"" Freedom Socialist ("The Voice of Revolutionary Feminism"), February-April 1990, pages 10-11.
French Family Planning Movement (pro-abortion organization)
"We condemn this new assault by conservative religious forces. After having set the fires of intolerance with the Scorcese film ["The Last Temptation of Christ"], the traditionalists and Catholic reactionaries now want to impose their reactionary laws on women."
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The French Family Planning Movement, whining about pro-life attempts to stop the abortion pill RU-486. Quoted in Dianne Pomon. "RU-486." Voices for the Unborn (Feasterville, Pennsylvania), August 1990, pages 7 and 15.
French, Marilyn
"All men are rapists. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes."
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Marilyn French, quoted in Sisterhood is Powerful (Robin Morgan, editor) [New York City: Vintage Books], 1970.
Freston, Tom (Chairman, Music Television (MTV))
"I have prevented my kids from watching MTV at times. I don't think my 10-year-old should be watching our special on sex in the '90s. There are some episodes of 'Beavis and Butthead' that are — well, not profane, but stupid. It's the responsibility of parents to monitor what their kids watch."
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MTV Chairman Tom Freston, quoted in "The Edge: The Quotebag." The Oregonian, August 23, 1995, page E1.
Fried, Marlene
"Women are saying they will take on the task of keeping the [abortion] clinics open regardless of the legal status of abortion. Millions of women seem prepared not only to have abortions even if abortion is criminalized but to say publicly that they would do so."
"We want to stop the anti-abortion movement, but using the very tactics that are so often used against progressive movements makes us uneasy about the way the battle has been shaped. Counting on the police to keep the clinics open, counting on the courts to preserve abortion rights, counting on the medical establishment to provide abortion services are all seen as complicity with an oppressive system — a system that should be challenged, not relied upon."
"Single-issue politics is not new in the abortion struggle. It has in fact been the politics of NARAL [the National Abortion Rights Action League] and Planned Parenthood, major mainstream groups that dominate the pro-choice movement."
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Marlene Fried. "Pro-Choice Agendas After Webster." Against the Current, November/December 1989, page 19.
Friedan, Betty
"The ERA has become both symbol and substance for the whole of the modern woman's movement of equality. Further, I am convinced if we lose this struggle for the ERA, we will have little hope in our own lifetime of saving our right to abortion."
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Betty Friedan, in her March 1978 letter to the International Women's Year (IWY) Conference delegates. Quoted in Eileen Vogel, "Abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment: A Call to Common Sense." People Concerned for the Unborn Child, June 1978.
"It is urgent to understand how the very condition of being a housewife can create a sense of emptiness, non-existence, nothingness, in women. There are aspects of the housewife role that make it almost impossible for a woman of adult intelligence to retain a sense of human identity, the firm course of self or "I" without which a human being, man or woman, is not truly alive. For women of ability, in America today, I am convinced there is something about the housewife state itself that is dangerous. ... The women who "adjust" as housewives, who grow up wanting to be "just a housewife," are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps. ...
"Strangely enough, the conditions which destroyed the human identity of so many prisoners were not the torture and the brutality, but conditions similar to those which destroy the identity of the American housewife. ... The prisoners were forced to adopt childlike behavior, forced to give up their individuality and merge themselves into an amorphous mass, forced to spend their days in work which produced great fatigue — not because it was physically killing but because it was monotonous, endless, required no mental concentration, gave no hope of advancement or recognition, was sometimes senseless and was controlled by the needs of others."
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Betty Friedan. The Feminine Mystique [New York City: Dell Publishing Company], 1963, pages 292, 294 and 295. Also quoted in Betty Steele. The Feminist Takeover: Patriarchy to Matriarchy in Two Decades [Richmond Hill, Ontario: Tercet Publishing], 1987, pages 42 and 43.
Friedman, Thomas (New York Times columnist)
"Quite simply, for many workers around the world, the oppression of the unchecked commissars has been replaced by the oppression of the unregulated capitalists, who move their manufacturing from country to country, constantly in search of those who will work for the lowest wages and lowest standards. To some, the Nike swoosh is now as scary as the hammer and sickle."
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New York Times columnist and former reporter Thomas Friedman, July 30, 1999 column.
Friends of Animals (animal-rights group)
"Animal experimentation is just plain wrong. Human beings have no right to the knowledge gained from experimentation on animals, even if it is done painlessly."
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Priscilla Feral, a spokesperson for the Humane Society, and president of the organization "Friends of Animals," quoted in the New York Times, October 25, 1988, page 1.
"There is no rational basis for maintaining a moral distinction between the treatment of humans and other animals."
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Priscilla Feral, a spokesperson for the Humane Society, and president of the organization "Friends of Animals," quoted in the New York Times, October 25, 1988, page 1.
Friends of the Earth (FOE)
"The growth of numbers worldwide and the continuing overall growth rate suggest that more unofficial advocacy and purely voluntary compliance are not enough — certainly not enough to stimulate widespread reduction in population in the time we have left before population induced catastrophe. What's more, voluntarism guarantees big families for the ignorant, the stupid, and the conscienceless, while it gradually reduces the proportion of people who, in conscience, limit the size of their families. ... If the less stringent curbs on procreation fail, someday perhaps childbearing will be deemed a punishable crime against society unless the parents held a government license. Or perhaps all potential parents will be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the governments issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing."
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Stewart M. Ogilvy, Honorary President of Friends of the Earth. "Population." In Friends of the Earth. Progress as if Survival Mattered: A Handbook for a Conserver Society [Hugh Nash, editor] [San Francisco: Friends of the Earth], 1977, pages 70 and 71.
"We should set a goal of reducing population to a level that the planet's resources can sustain indefinitely at a decent standard of living — probably less than two billion. Americans should take the lead in adopting policies that will
