Nachman: "The Vatican purportedly has the largest pornography collection in the world."
Guest: "It's clear, Jerry, it's the right wing, it's the Republicans, it's the people like Ken Starr, it's the people like the pope who love pornography "
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Journalist Jerry Nachman and an unidentified woman guest on the October 9, 1998 broadcast of ABC's "Politically Incorrect." 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.
Nainar, Vahida (Executive Director of the Women's Caucus for Gender Justice (WCGJ))
"The Holy See's seat at the United Nations not only adversely influences Catholic nations, but also works to forge unholy alliances with conservatives of other religions, seriously undermining the fundamental human rights guaranteed to woman. This effort to keep religion out of the realm of the secular is vital."
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Vahida Nainar, Executive Director of the Women's Caucus for Gender Justice, New York City. Letter entitled "Women, Religion and Fundamentalism." Conscience (newsletter of 'Catholics' for a Free Choice), Spring 2002 [Volume XXIII, Number 1], page 44 [NOTE: Of course, it is perfectly fine by Nainar and other such 'thinkers' if pro-abortion religions make their presence known at the UN. On the same page as her letter, there is another by Jennifer Butler of the Presbyterian United Nations Office denouncing conservative participation at the UN. So why does Nainar not object to a Presbyterian presence at the UN? Because they agree with her. It is as simple as that].
Nasrin, Taslima (Bangladeshi writer)
"I believe in humanism. I don't believe in God. I believe religious scriptures are out of place and out of time. If a religion keeps people in ignorance, if a religion oppresses other groups, and if it keeps women in slavery, then I can't accept that religion. From what I can tell, most religions are like that."
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Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin, quoted in Hagar Scher. "A Writer Banished." Ms. Magazine, August/September 1999, page 90.
Nathanson, Bernard (reformed abortionist)
"Women do not kill themselves and never have as a result of being pregnant. Interestingly, when we were pushing abortion — we, meaning the high command of the National Abortion Rights Action League, including myself, [Larry] Lader, and [Betty] Friedan, in the late 60's, we asked the Medical Examiner of New York City to go through his files to discover, to give us a figure on how many women who were pregnant had killed themselves, were suicides as a result merely of being pregnant. ... The Medical Examiner was unable to give us even one case, one case, where a woman had clearly committed suicide because she was pregnant — this was in New York City — so we were chagrined and never, of course, publicized that finding."
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Reformed abortionist Bernard Nathanson, M.D., testimony at the Borowski hearing, Regina, Saskatchewan, May 16, 1983, page 409.
"Women must have control over their own bodies."
"Safe and legal abortion is every woman's right."
"Who decides? You decide!"
"Freedom of choice — a basic American right."
"I remember laughing when we made those slogans up. We were looking for some sexy, catchy slogans to capture public opinion. They were very cynical slogans then, just as all of these slogans today are very, very cynical.
"In 1968 I met Lawrence Lader. Lader had just finished a book called Abortion, and in it had made the audacious demand that abortion should be legalized throughout the country. ... Lader and I were perfect for each other. We sat down and plotted out the organization now known as NARAL. With Betty Friedan, we set up this organization and began working on the strategy.
"We persuaded the media that the cause of permissive abortion was a liberal, enlightened, sophisticated one. Knowing that if a true poll were taken, we would be soundly defeated, we simply fabricated the results of fictional polls. We announced to the media that we had taken polls and that 60 percent of Americans were in favor of permissive abortion. This is the tactic of the self-fulfilling lie. Few people care to be in the minority. We aroused enough sympathy to sell our program of permissive abortion by fabricating the number of illegal abortions done annually in the U.S. The actual figure was approaching 100,000, but the figure we gave to the media repeatedly was 1,000,000.
"Repeating the big lie often enough convinces the public. The number of women dying from illegal abortions was around 200-250 annually. The figure we constantly fed to the media was 10,000. These false figures took root in the consciousness of Americans, convincing many that we needed to crack the abortion law.
"Another myth we fed to the public through the media was that legalizing abortion would only mean that the abortions taking place illegally would then be done legally. In fact, of course, abortion is now being used as a primary method of birth control in the U.S. and the annual number of abortions has increased by 1,500 percent since legalization."
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Reformed abortionist Bernard Nathanson, M.D., quoted in "'Pro-Choice' Co-Founder Rips Abortion Industry." Whistleblower Magazine [WorldNetDaily], December 20, 2002.
"How many deaths were we talking about when abortion was illegal? In NARAL [the National Abortion Rights Action League], we generally emphasized the frame of the individual case, not the mass statistics, but when we spoke of the latter it was always '5,000 to 10,000 deaths a year.' I confess that I knew the figures were totally false, and I suppose the others did too if they stopped to think of it. But in the 'morality' of our revolution, it was a useful figure, widely accepted, so why go out of our way to correct it with honest statistics? The overriding concern was to get the laws eliminated, and anything within reason that had to be done was permissible."
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Bernard Nathanson, M.D. Aborting America [New York City: Doubleday], 1979, page 193.
National Abortion Federation (NAF)
"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.
Hut: "There is certainly no obligation to report the results [of this study to women considering abortion].
Judge Casey: "How can you give informed consent if you don't tell them? Aren't we putting thousands of women and their babies at risk if we don't have an obligation to tell women who are considering abortion?"
Hut: "Absolutely not."
Judge Casey: "And you don't think there is an obligation to tell women, when obtaining so-called informed consent?"
Hut: "No. What in God's name, your Honor, is she supposed to do with that piece of information?"
Judge Casey: "Have you explained it in terms that she can understand?"
Hut: "No. Informed consent is largely a matter of the individual judgment of the doctor based on his or her well informed assessment of his or her patient."
Judge Casey: It is as if the doctors were informed and the women consented."
Hut: "I don't think so at all, your Honor. I think this is a very delicate issue as to which sophisticated, experienced doctors bring to bear years and years of judgment that we lawyers — we lawyers cannot begin to appreciate."
Judge Casey: "It's not the doctor's consent, it's the woman's consent."
Hut: "And it's the doctors that understand the women that are patients and those patients —"
Judge Casey: "Isn't that terribly patronizing when it's the woman who's making the decision? ... "The best I can do is let it [partial-birth abortion] go on and let malpractice cases resolve what perhaps this Court should be facing up to?"
Hut: "Rather than let the Congress deprive thousands of women of a safe property, sure."
Judge Casey: "A little more deference to those women, it would behoove you to give them that."
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Exchange between National Abortion Federation lawyer Stephen Hut and Judge Richard Casey, discussing a study conducted by Dr. Steven Chasen, maternal-fetal medicine practitioner at New York City's Presbyterian Hospital, during an attempt by the NAF to overturn New York State's partial-birth abortion ban. Quoted in Steven Ertelt. "Abortion Business Attorney: Women Don't Need to Know Abortion Risks." LifeNews.com, June 28, 2004 [NOTE: Hut also admitted that, even if a study had been conducted that showed, with no doubt, that partial-birth abortions contained a substantial risk of premature delivery in subsequent pregnancies, the partial-birth abortion ban would still be unconstitutional in his mind].
"Is adolescent pregnancy a disease? We have laws regarding other epidemics. We have mandatory immunizations, but we have no law prohibiting motherhood before the age of 14 in our supposedly-civilized society. We ought to mandate against continuing pregnancy in the very young — say, those less than 14 years."
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Minnesota abortionist Jane Hodgson at May 28-30, 1980 National Abortion Federation (NAF) conference in Washington, D.C., quoted in Mary Meehan and Elizabeth Moore. "Forced Abortion Suggested at Clinic Owner's Conference." National Right to Life News, June 2, 1980, pages 1 and 13.
"Scare them to death. Use up their resources. Try to bankrupt them."
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Abortion lawyer Margi Pitts Haimes, at the National Abortion Federation (NAF) convention, Los Angeles, May 14-16, 1984.
"If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament ... an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning."
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Carter Hayworth, a female Episcopalian 'priestess,' at the 1985 National Abortion Federation (NAF) convention. National Abortion Federation Update, Fall 1985, page 7.
"Abortion is seven times safer than childbirth, and carries approximately the same risk of death as a shot of penicillin ... Statistical data confirm that legal abortion has had a dramatically positive effect on public health."
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National Abortion Federation booklet, "Twelve Years of Legal Abortion." 1985, pages 2 and 7.
"Our media strategy is to project ourselves and our patients in the most positive way. Hence, we named our coalition of abortion providers the "Coalition to Protect Health Care" ... We salute the courage and bravery of women patients who endure this type of harassment and invasion of privacy ... Actually the experience has brought us more support than ever. These [rescuers] are bullies, who try to terrorize women patients. They seek coercion: they force others to bear children ... clinics should stay open for deterrence reasons ... to promulgate the appearance of being open during such anti-abortion campaigns."
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Alice L. Kirkman, Public Affairs Director of the National Abortion Federation (NAF), in two 1988 memorandums. Quoted in "Abortionists Choose Media Words Carefully." American Family Association Journal, April 1989, page 19.
"If prenatal human beings are to be recognized as full-fledged persons, it follows that those who kill them for reasons less compelling than self-defense must be recognized as full-fledged murderers and treated as such. Those who are rigorously opposed to allowing elective abortion on the ground that prenatal human beings are persons must confront this implication sincerely and sensitively, and they must be explicit about what they are willing to accept as the practical implications of their position. If they are not willing to accept that those who abort should be subject to exactly the same treatment as others who murder, then they need to recognize that they do not really believe that prenatal human beings have the moral status of persons. And this is true of those who hold that such matters should be left up to the individual states, since states are not, in other cases, free to allow those who murder innocent persons to be at large in the community" [emphasis in original].
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James W. Knight and Joan C. Callahan. Preventing Birth: Contemporary Methods and Related Moral Controversies. University of Utah Press, 1989, pages 220 and 221. Also contained as an extract in National Abortion Federation (NAF). Second Trimester Abortion: From Every Angle. "Fall Risk Management Seminar, September 13-14, 1992, Dallas, Texas. Presentations, Bibliography & Related Materials." 1992.
"One definition of an epidemic is an unusually frequent occurrence of disease in light of past experience. By this definition, any act of arson or bombing directed against any health care provider or related organization constitutes an epidemic."
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David Grimes, at the National Abortion Federation (NAF) 15th Annual Meeting, April 28 - May 1, 1991.
"At this point, the right-handed surgeon slides the fingers of the left had [sic] along the back of the fetus and "hooks" the shoulders of the fetus with the index and ring fingers (palm down). Next he slides the tip of the middle finger along the spine towards the skill while applying traction to the shoulders and lower extremities. The middle finger lifts and pushes the anterior cervical lip out of the way.
"While maintaining this tension, lifting the cervix and applying traction to the shoulders with the fingers of the left hand, the surgeon takes a pair of blunt curved Metzenbaum scissors in the right hand. He carefully advances the tip, curved down, along the spine and under his middle finger until he feels it contact the base of the skull under the tip of his middle finger.
"Reassessing proper placement of the closed scissors tip and safe elevation of the cervix, the surgeon then forces the scissors into the base of the skull or into the foramen magnum. Having safely entered the skull, he spreads the scissors to enlarge the opening.
"The surgeon removes the scissors and introduces a suction catheter into this hole and evacuates the skull contents. With the catheter still in place, he applies traction to the fetus, removing it completely from the patient."
"The author is aware of one other surgeon [J. McMahon] who uses a conceptually similar technique ... Coupled with other refinements and a slower operating time, he performs these procedures up to 32 weeks or more."
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Abortionist Martin Haskell. "Dilatation and Extraction for Late Second Trimester Abortion." Contained in National Abortion Federation. Second Trimester Abortion: From Every Angle. "Fall Risk Management Seminar, September 13-14, 1992, Dallas, Texas. Presentations, Bibliography & Related Materials." 1992 [NOTE: The foramen magnum is the large opening in the occipital bone between the cranial cavity and the spinal canal. Haskell goes on to say that this ghastly abortion procedure can be used essentially all the way to birth].
"When polls have been conducted on RU-486, the new French Pill, the results very depending on how the question is asked. If RU-486 is referred to as an "abortion pill," it has significantly less support than if it is called a new form of birth control. In many polls, the description can change support by as much as 15-20 points and determine if a majority of those polled are in favor of the pill."
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National Abortion Federation. Abortion: Moral Choice and Medical Imperative. "Abortion Practice Advancement, Sixteenth Annual Meeting Workbook, April 13-14, 1992, San Diego, California." Page 133, "Successful Strategies: Managing the Media."
"Suffice it to say with the right to choose hanging by the thinnest of judicial threads, none of the 60 million American women of child bearing age can really feel safe and free in their own nation."
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James Wagner during the General Session entitled "Choice '92: Abortion in the Political Landscape." At the National Abortion Federation's 16th Annual Meeting, April 12-15, 1992, San Diego, California.
"We look at the crime in our society, and again we found out that we have a society that has 250 million people. We have 211 million guns in our society — 67 million handguns — and more than a million Uzis who have — that have no purpose, except to kill. So, we as a society — we feel that we've got to do all of this protection to make sure for — unplanned, unwanted pregnancy — we've got to protect the fetus! But we've just added 75 more crimes that we're gonna kill for — a death penalty!"
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Keynote address of Former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders entitled "America's Endangered Adolescents," at the National Abortion Federation's 18th Annual Meeting at the Westin Hotel in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 24-25, 1994.
"One comment, not from a legal perspective but from a public health perspective, the risk of congenital anomaly is much less if you have — if you have a medical abortion than if you decide not to have an abortion and go to term — so although there will undoubtedly be test cases and problems, in fact you are averting most congenital anomalies by having an abortion."
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James Kahn, speaking in a panel entitled "Preparing Your Clinic for Medical Abortion," at the 20th Annual Meeting of the National Abortion Federation, March 31 - April 2, 1996, in San Francisco, California.
"Greetings, little one.
Little sister, little brother,
Great wise ancestor.
You want to come to our house,
Maybe you think we would make
good parents for you —
Well, the food is short now —
The winter was too long,
and the summer too hot.
We have too many mouths to feed.
My husband works too hard already.
We cannot open our home to you now.
Try again later, little one,
or find a better place.
Go in peace now, go in peace.
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Prayer used at a National Abortion Federation (NAF) conference. "No Caption Necessary." Life Activist News [Life Dynamics, Inc.], Spring 1997, page 9.
"This particular procedure [D&X abortion] is used only in about 500 cases per year, generally after 20 weeks of pregnancy, and most often when there is a severe fetal anomaly or maternal health problem detected late in pregnancy."
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Statement on the home page of the National Abortion Federation (NAF), February 18, 1997.
NARAL Pro-Choice America (formerly the Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (ARAL), the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL), the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), and the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARRAL))
"Unless Protestantism wants to continue its unstated but inherent subservience to Catholic doctrine, it is high time the Protestant leadership announces: A piece of tissue cannot be sanctified as human life."
"As long as the Catholic Church, or any faith, continues to block legislation allowing individual conscience and free choice in abortion, the core of our democratic system is crippled. The right to abortion is the foundation of Society's long struggle to guarantee that every child comes into this world wanted, loved, and cared for. The right to abortion, along with all birth-control measures, must establish the Century of the Wanted Child."
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Lawrence Lader, co-founder of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARRAL). Abortion [New York City: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.], 1966, page 165.
"Women must have control over their own bodies."
"Safe and legal abortion is every woman's right."
"Who decides? You decide!"
"Freedom of choice — a basic American right."
"I remember laughing when we made those slogans up. We were looking for some sexy, catchy slogans to capture public opinion. They were very cynical slogans then, just as all of these slogans today are very, very cynical.
"In 1968 I met Lawrence Lader. Lader had just finished a book called Abortion, and in it had made the audacious demand that abortion should be legalized throughout the country. ... Lader and I were perfect for each other. We sat down and plotted out the organization now known as NARAL. With Betty Friedan, we set up this organization and began working on the strategy.
"We persuaded the media that the cause of permissive abortion was a liberal, enlightened, sophisticated one. Knowing that if a true poll were taken, we would be soundly defeated, we simply fabricated the results of fictional polls. We announced to the media that we had taken polls and that 60 percent of Americans were in favor of permissive abortion. This is the tactic of the self-fulfilling lie. Few people care to be in the minority. We aroused enough sympathy to sell our program of permissive abortion by fabricating the number of illegal abortions done annually in the U.S. The actual figure was approaching 100,000, but the figure we gave to the media repeatedly was 1,000,000.
"Repeating the big lie often enough convinces the public. The number of women dying from illegal abortions was around 200-250 annually. The figure we constantly fed to the media was 10,000. These false figures took root in the consciousness of Americans, convincing many that we needed to crack the abortion law.
"Another myth we fed to the public through the media was that legalizing abortion would only mean that the abortions taking place illegally would then be done legally. In fact, of course, abortion is now being used as a primary method of birth control in the U.S. and the annual number of abortions has increased by 1,500 percent since legalization."
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Reformed abortionist Bernard Nathanson, M.D., quoted in "'Pro-Choice' Co-Founder Rips Abortion Industry." Whistleblower Magazine [WorldNetDaily], December 20, 2002.
"What happens to women in such circumstances — an estimated 1,000,000 a year denied by law the right to hospital abortion — has never been analyzed before because there has been no access to a sizable study group. Generally rich and affluent women, a tiny privileged class, manage to arrange for hospital, or "therapeutic," abortions every year, but the great majority must seek "underworld" abortions from hacks, medical butchers or midwives with little or no gynecological training, or resort to the even more drastic recourse of self-abortion by deadly chemicals and homemade instruments. Almost half of all childbearing deaths in New York City stem from "underworld" abortion."
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Lawrence Lader, co-founder, National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARRAL). "First Exclusive Survey of Non-Hospital Abortions." Look Magazine, January 21, 1969, pages 63, 64 and 65.
"They don't want them to go to Planned Parenthood, where they'll get their full range of options. They just want them to go to crisis pregnancy centers, where women will be exposed to this weapon [ultrasound machines] at taxpayer's expense."
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NARAL Pro-Choice America's Director of Government Relations, in response to legislation introduced by Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL) that would assist pregnancy resource centers in purchasing new 4-D ultrasound equipment for their facilities, quoted in Tony Perkins. "NARAL Calls CPC's Use of Ultrasounds a "Weapon"." Undated report from LifeNews.com at http://www.lifenews.com/oped17.html.
"For the purposes of this political campaign, they [pro-lifers] help themselves at the expense of cheapening the memory of those millions of murdered men, women and children, — as well as at the expense of the personal distress caused by an apparently disrespectful use of events ... It must be noted that while millions of men, women and children relentlessly dragged themselves to their death under the boots of their tormentors for nearly a decade, neither the voices of the prestigious leaders of the Vatican — nor the voices of "Value of Life" persons — were heard on behalf of these tortured lives. Now this world drama is exploited in the form of a callous and cheap and convenient cliche for the self-serving purposes of a political controversy."
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Regina Barshak, protesting pro-lifers using the term "the abortion holocaust." "A Jewish Cry of Protest." Letter in The Boston Globe, March 18, 1972. Also distributed by the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL, now NARRAL) for propaganda purposes on page 44 of its looseleaf booklet entitled "Organizing for Action." Prepared by Vicki Z. Kaplan for the National Abortion Rights Action League, 250 West 57th Street, New York, N.Y. 10019. 51 pages, no date.
Stated Billy Graham and the Pope running our country.
(4)
Catholics trying to overthrow the most humanitarian legislation of our time.
(7)
[Catholic] Priests went into assembly and terrorized [Texas] legislators.
(10)
Stressed that he [Lader] uses every opportunity - Television appearances, radio interviews, newspapers to criticize the way the Catholic Church uses its tax free monies, etc.
Hon. Lorraine Beebe, former State Senator, Michigan
(1)
Stressed financial strength of the Catholic Church.
(2)
We have been nice, pleasant too long. We can be restrained no longer - Right to Lifers have a total lack of respect for human life. "We can no longer move restrainedly, sit on our apathy and hope Rome will burn."
(3)
Catholics waged a smear campaign against me when they learned I had had a therapeutic abortion. They made threatening calls, threw eggs at my house. Had signs - 'A vote for Beebe is a vote against the Pope.'
(4)
The catholics will stop at no ends to reach their goals.
(5)
A good Roman Catholic Liberal can be valuable.
Lawrence Lader - I share Mrs. Beebe's attitude, "I don't care if we have a Belfast and Dublin here in the U.S. we must have a direct conflict with the Catholic Church."
Reverend Robert T. Cobb - Associate Executive Director, N.Y. Council of Churches.
Rev. Cobb made a very dramatic entrance - ripping off his collar and asking "who are you afraid of" -when you thought I was a Catholic Priest you looked stunned. You should not be afraid of a church that condemns but does not forgive.
"Protestants have been bought by the Roman Catholic Church.
He proceeded to knock ecumenism and state[d] that if the Churches go to Rome he will go walking on his hands.
William Baird, Director, Parent's Aid Society
(1)
Single Greatest Threat to Women - Roman Catholic Church ...
(3)
In attacking Catholic Church - concentrate on separation of church and state.
Summary -
(3)
Their [NARAL's] attack will be concentrated - even to court cases - against the Catholic Church and trying to make people believe that Pope is trying to run the country, and that the Catholic Church is trying to take over Protestant Churches.
"At this point we had to leave - It was after 5 ... I was getting a bit nervous - the anti-catholic, anti-Right to Life feeling in that room was close to violent."
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These are excerpts as transcribed by a secretary from the minutes of the May 12, 1972 meeting of the executive board of the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws, later the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) and then NARRAL.
"The publication of Friedan's Feminine Mystique in 1963, and the founding of the National Organization for Women in 1966 marked the dividing line between the old feminism of rights and the new feminism of liberation — Friedan and Neofeminism erupted on a wave of technology. For it was the technology of contraception, the birth control Pill, that make possible the radicalization of women. Only when technology — and abortion is a crucial step in this process — allowed women to free themselves from the prison of incessant childbearing could they grapple with the possibility of achieving themselves on every plane. By bringing NOW, and eventually Women's Lib into the abortion campaign, Friedan ensured that the struggle for feminine revolution was solidly rooted in the one base that could turn theory into reality — a woman's control over her own body and procreation. It was the surge and fever of Neofeminism that paved the way for the abortion movement. Each was essential to the other, and neither could have advanced without the other.
"No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her own body. Ms. Sanger taught me this ... Until then I had never grasped the implications of this principle. Whatever the original feminists demanded for women, or Betty Friedan and the Neofeminists today, whether equality before the law, in education, business, and professions ... all of these things were meaningless unless a woman controlled her own procreation. No woman could achieve these other freedoms without the basic freedom of birth control ... I was convinced that abortion must be completely legalized as a backup, emergency measure to contraception ... the biggest step was to demand legalization as an inalienable right of women, protected by the Constitution's Bill of Rights" [emphasis added].
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Larry Lader, co-founder, National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARRAL). Abortion II, Making the Revolution [Boston: Beacon Press], 1973, pages 18 to 20 and 36 to 40.
"The menial housewife programmed into a cheap source of breeding and domestic labor should be relegated to the ashheap of Puritan morality."
"Above all, the abortion revolution should intensify the trend towards population control. In 1972, about 600 thousand legal abortions were performed nationwide — a figure that accounted in large measure for the decline in births below the replacement level of 2.110."
"The impact of the abortion revolution may be too vast to assess immediately. It should usher in an era when every child will be wanted, loved, and properly cared for; when the incidence of infanticides and battered children should be sharply reduced."
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Larry Lader, co-founder of the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL). "The Abortion Revolution." The Humanist, May/June 1973, page 4.
"Opposition to abortion comes largely from the Roman Catholic Church. One of the more effective ways of scoring this point is to read from the [attached] List of Organizations Favoring Repeal [of all abortion laws] the names of prestigious national organizations ... and then to challenge your [pro-life debating] opponent to name one nonreligious organization in any of these categories (health, welfare, legal, medical, etc.) that supports their contention that abortion is murder."
"Of course contraceptives should be more widely available and promoted; however, in the present state of contraceptive technology, and given the continuing possibility of human error in the use of even the best methods, abortion is needed as a backstop; its use is not preferable to contraception, but once a pregnancy occurs, it is the only means of birth prevention."
"Legal abortion will result in a reduction in welfare roles."
"Legal abortion will decrease the number of illegitimate births ... A policy that makes contraception and abortion freely available will greatly reduce the number of unwanted children, and thereby curb the tragic rise of child abuse in our country ... Legal abortion will decrease the number of unwanted children, battered children, child abuse cases, and possibly subsequent delinquency, drug addiction, and a host of social ills believed to be associated with neglectful parenthood."
"Your [pro-life] opposition's tack is primarily emotional ... Discredit the opposition's statistics. They are mostly out of date (no where near as up-to-date as yours) and mostly distorted ... Remember, they'll try to hold you to these [when does life begin] arguments because they are about all they have in a meager arsenal ..."
"Abortion and euthanasia are separate issues (though determining the end of the human person is as difficult a question as determining the start); we set speed limits at 60 MPH and do not necessarily move them to 70 MPH (one step does not necessarily lead to another).
"The [pro-life] opposition will hammer away at life and murder themes — matters of theology and faith, rather than fact and reason. Dispose of these as quickly as possible (avoid the "When does life begin?" discussion) ..."
"Another set of questions involves the opposition. Has your audience seen anti-abortion propaganda? Are you debating a Right-to-Lifer? Is the opposition bringing slides or pictures? Try to insist that they not be allowed to ... Find out if your opposition is bringing audio-visuals. Try to insist that you will only speak if they do not.
"Explain that you are equally repulsed by the [pro-life] photos, that you are human and love children and babies as much as anyone else ... The pictures they [the audience] have seen must be discredited. They have been magnified so much as to remove the facts from scientific perspective. Really, in early stages, the fetus is smaller than a fingernail, can fit into a walnut shell, and is much like menstrual flow to the naked eye. We would be repulsed by a magnified picture of an eyeball in formaldehyde also.
"It is an advantage to have visited an abortion clinic. Your enthusiastic first-hand account of the process can be impressive. Describe how quick and safe the procedure is, how pleasant the clinic, how relaxed the patient, how the conceptus looks at ten weeks - a small bloody mass, very jelly-like, about an inch long, and weighing about 3/4 of an ounce. Absolutely no arms and legs — no "baby" at all!"
"Legal abortion provides the only humane disposition of a pregnancy resulting from rape or incest."
"We should not be surprised to find a human fetus looks like us; rather we would be amazed if it resembled an elephant. But a dead body also looks very much like us, yet does not prevent us from cutting that body, as in an autopsy, since the person is no longer there — as the person is not yet there in the case of a fetus.
"Back to the central issue of personhood and rights; other non-persons (pigs, cows) have toenails, heartbeats, and the capacity to feel pain (some say a fetus can only feel pressure, not pain, but we're not sure), yet these factors alone do not prevent the destruction of such entities.
"I really respect your [pro-lifer's] right to try to stop me if you think I am committing murder. Maybe you even have an obligation, as you say. But why aren't you using the most effective means possible? Why are you playing the power politics game at all? Shouldn't you be focusing your efforts on the women who are actually having abortions? Is it the fetus or the law you really care about?"
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Looseleaf booklet entitled "Organizing for Action." Prepared by Vicki Z. Kaplan for the National Abortion Rights Action League, 250 West 57th Street, New York, N.Y. 10019. 51 pages, 1974. See especially the chapter written by Emily C. Moore, Ph.D., entitled "The Major Issues and the Argumentation in the Abortion Debate," pages 33 to 43.
"The right to abortion, an inalienable right of all women, is an integral part of population control."
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Lawrence Lader, co-founder of the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), quoted in Samuel L. Blumenfeld. The Retreat From Motherhood [New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House], 1975, page 37.
"The necessity of feeding a quarter of the world's population has spurred a unique population-control program that has had remarkable results."
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Lawrence Lader, co-founder of the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL), now the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARRAL). "The China Solution." Science Digest, April 1983, page 78.
"Women do not kill themselves and never have as a result of being pregnant. Interestingly, when we were pushing abortion — we, meaning the high command of the National Abortion Rights Action League, including myself, [Larry] Lader, and [Betty] Friedan, in the late 60's, we asked the Medical Examiner of New York City to go through his files to discover, to give us a figure on how many women who were pregnant had killed themselves, were suicides as a result merely of being pregnant. ... The Medical Examiner was unable to give us even one case, one case, where a woman had clearly committed suicide because she was pregnant — this was in New York City — so we were chagrined and never, of course, publicized that finding."
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Reformed abortionist Bernard Nathanson, M.D., testimony at the Borowski hearing, Regina, Saskatchewan, May 16, 1983, page 409.
"Historically, every revolution has to have its villain. ... Now, in our case, it makes little sense to lead a campaign only against unjust laws, even though that's what we really are doing. We have to narrow the focus, identify those unjust laws with a person or a group of people. ... There's always been one group of people in this country associated with reactionary politics, behind-the-scenes manipulations, socially backward ideas. You know who I mean, Bernie. ... the Catholic hierarchy. That's a small enough group to come down on, and anonymous enough so that no names ever have to be mentioned ... "
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National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) co-founder Larry Lader, speaking to Bernard M. Nathanson, M.D., as described in Nathanson's book The Abortion Papers: Inside the Abortion Mentality [Madison, Wisconsin: Idea Books], 1985.
"Thirty-five years ago I was pregnant — my baby had died in 4th month of pregnancy but because of abortion being illegal I couldn't have an abortion — I had to carry that dead child for 5 months before I finally aborted it myself. I carried that child for 5 agonizing months knowing I was carrying a dead child — please legalize abortion — it must be pro choice."
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An excerpt from one of the letters sent to NARRAL during its failed 1985 "Silent No More" propaganda campaign. Quoted from the May 22, 1985 Congressional Record and quoted in "Wimps of the Week," The Review of the NEWS, July 3, 1985, pages 55 and 56 [NOTE: Anyone who knows anything about fetal development or obstetrics will realize that the situation described above is physically impossible].
"My abortion occurred when I was a married adult woman. I simply had not fully dealt with the role of motherhood, and how it might impact upon the rather new career path which I was pursuing. I was not raped. I do not think I carried a deformed fetus. I was not a teenager. I was simply a woman who believes that her uterus was her own, as was the decision as to when or if it would bear a child."
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An excerpt from one of the letters sent to NARRAL during its failed 1985 "Silent No More" propaganda campaign. Quoted from the May 22, 1985 Congressional Record and quoted in "Wimps of the Week," The Review of the NEWS, July 3, 1985, pages 55 and 56.
"[Pro-lifers are] going far beyond the usual civil disobedience. They are committing direct violence against women. A woman whose abortion is delayed increases her health risks, and commotion outside a clinic increases stress and affects the performance of medical personnel."
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Ellen Carton, New York executive director of the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), quoted in "Gazette." Conscience (newsletter of 'Catholics' for a Free Choice (CFFC)), May/June 1988 [Volume IX, Number 3], page 17.
"Probably nothing has been as damaging to our cause as technological advances that show pictures of the fetus."
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Pollster Harrison Hickman at the October 1989 annual conference of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARRAL), quoted in Human Life of Washington State. Human Life News, January/February 1990, page 1.
"The media has been our best friend in this fight. They claim objectivity, but I know they're all pro-choice."
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Susanne Millsaps, executive director of the Utah Chapter of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARRAL), quoted in the Washington Times, March 13, 1991. Also quoted in Voices for the Unborn (Feasterville, Pennsylvania), October 1991, page 4.
"We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to the skirt that he has on."
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Gloria Steinem, during the violent and obscene October 1995 protest by homosexuals and pro-abortionists at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. The protests were organized by ACT-UP, American Atheists, and the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), and protestors held signs that said "Stop AIDS! Stop Homophobia! Stop the Pope!" Described in Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. 1995 Report on Anti-Catholicism, available on-line at the Catholic League's Web site at http://www.catholicleague.org.
"The Canadian Alliance has just elected a leader [Stockwell Day] who would favour state-sanctioned violence against women by forcing them to bear children they may not want and/or cannot care for, and thus be forced to give up for adoption."
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Canadian Abortion Rights Action League (CARAL), July 10, 2000 press release. Quoted in "Feminists Define Right to Life for Unborn as "Violence." LifeSite Daily News at http://www.lifesite.net, July 18, 2000.
"[Women who seek abortions] do so for socio-economic reasons. Sometimes it is a desire to complete their education and become financially independent. In many cases, couples with children wish to restrict their family size in order to provide adequate financial support. Often, choosing abortion is a conscious decision not to become a socio-economic burden on society."
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Marilyn Wilson, Executive Director of the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League (CARAL), in a submission to the House of Commons Finance Committee on October 31, 2001, quoted in "CARAL Admits Abortion Done For "Socio-Economic" Reasons." LifeSite Daily News at http://www.lifesite.net, November 1, 2001 [NOTE: Alliance Member of Parliament Jason Kenney, a Finance Committee member, said "This admission is significant from an organization that has always claimed that abortion is a 'medically necessary service.' CARAL has now blown the cover off its argument that provinces must finance a procedure which is not done for medical reasons"].
"In the last quarter of a century, twenty percent of our buildings have been destroyed by arson and bombs. Terrorists have murdered our policemen and guards, as they tried to come to the aid of the innocent victims of the attacks. They have murdered nearly 0.2 percent of our community, in their homes, in front of their children and friends and at their places of work.
"Some mainstream religious groups support our domestic terrorists. While their religious leaders preach salvation, they fund terrorists to commit arson and murder. Like the September 11th terrorists, domestic terrorists live and work amongst us, as 'sleepers' in our communities. They send their children to our schools, they work out in our gyms and they live a 'normal' life while awaiting their assignments."
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Third-trimester abortionist Leroy Carhart, in a letter to President George W. Bush, cited by the California Abortion Rights Action League (CARAL) and quoted in "News." Los Angeles Lay Catholic Mission, December 2001, page 13.
"It was given to me the day I was born. And it'll be mine the day I die. It's my responsibility — to keep healthy, and happy, and free from harm. So it's gotta be my right to make the choices regarding it. Choices that are ultimately between me and my conscience. I'm the one who must live with these choices, shouldn't I be the one to make them?"
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2001 public service announcement sponsored and paid for by the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARRAL) Foundation.
"This spot relies visually on an old american children's game, red rover. In this game, children hold hands in two long lines, facing each other on a clear, open playing field. Alternately, each team calls someone from the other — "red rover, red rover, send Lydia right over," the chosen child runs and runs, and tries with all her might to break through a link in the opposing chain. And so it goes, back and forth, full of effort and speed, flailing arms and laughing faces, breaking through, and sometimes getting caught — legs dangling — between stronger arms. It would be shot in slow motion, allowing us to focus on each child's expression and mood — the simple exhilaration of being free, and the frustration of falling victim to an unyielding wall of opposition."
"And what will we tell them, the children in front of us now? What will we say? That we had the right to choose but that right is lost? Will we tell them we had control of our bodies, our lives, but they never will? That we had choices, and chances, and privileges and that thing called freedom and we let it slip away? What will we tell them? What will we say?"
Letters appear on the television screen: "PRO-CHOICE."
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2001 public service announcement sponsored and paid for by the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARRAL) Foundation.
"In this spot, we see a young woman on a high dive. These are the thoughts that go through her head as she prepares to execute a difficult dive. Right before the last line, she does a perfect dive, then emerges from the water and looks derectly at the camera." Her thoughts are: "More than anything, I ask for courage. Courage to grow, to make my own decisions, to make mistakes. My life is blessed with so many choices. Please, grant me the strength and wisdom to make the right ones. And the courage, always, to defend my right to do so."
Letters appear on the television screen: "PRO-CHOICE."
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2001 public service announcement sponsored and paid for by the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARRAL) Foundation.
"A mother is teaching her 6-year-old daughter to ride a bike. The voice you hear is what the mother is thinking. She holds onto the little girl's bike for a while as she runs along with it, then finally lets go, and the girl is off and riding by herself into the sunshine." She thinks: "I want every good thing in the world for you. I want you to know, right down to your toes, that all of life's choices are open to you. Sure, you'll skin your knees along the way, but you'll learn. That it's your body, your life, and your responsibility. Never give up the freedom to choose. Your dreams are tied to it."
Letters appear on the television screen: "PRO-CHOICE."
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2001 public service announcement sponsored and paid for by the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARRAL) Foundation.
"In this spot, we see images (both realistic and symbolic) of various women, men, and children (a variety of ages and races) participating in life. Visually, it is highly personal and stylistic. One woman's voice (warm, heartland, honest) and music under throughout." The voice says "I believe there's a reason we are born with free will. And I have a strong will to decide what's best for my body, my mind, and my life. I believe in myself. In my intelligence, my integrity, my judgement. And I accept full responsibility for the decisions I make. I believe in my right to choose-without interrogations, without indignities, without violence. I believe that's one of the founding principles of our country. And I believe that right is being threatened. The greatest of human freedoms is choice. And I believe no one has the right to take that freedom away."
Letters appear on the television screen: "What's life without choice? Pro-choice."
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2001 public service announcement sponsored and paid for by the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARRAL) Foundation.
"It never fails to amaze me how little respect they have for women's capacity to understand what goes on in our bodies. I faced a crisis pregnancy after having three children, and I didn't need anyone to show me a sonogram to inform me that my pregnancy would result in giving birth to a person."
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Kate Michelman, President of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARRAL), objecting to pro-life groups using ultrasound to show women their babies. "Congressional Bill Would Help CPCs Purchase Ultrasound Technology." Associated Press, February 1, 2002; Steven Ertelt's Pro-Life Infonet at http://www.prolifeinfo.org, February 4, 2002 [NOTE: If ultrasound is useless for helping women "understand what goes on in their bodies," then why do so many of them change their minds about aborting their babies after seeing them?]
"The population explosion compels us to take every means necessary to curb our growth rate. Since contraception alone seems insufficient to reduce fertility to the point of no-growth, and since population experts tell us that eliminating unwanted fertility [is necessary], we should permit all voluntary means of birth control (including abortion) so as to avert the necessity for coercive measures."
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Emily C. Moore, Ph.D. "The Major Issues and the Argumentation in the Abortion Debate." Pages 33 to 43. In a looseleaf booklet entitled "Organizing for Action." Prepared by Vicki Z. Kaplan for the National Abortion Rights Action League, 250 West 57th Street, New York, N.Y. 10019. 51 pages, no date.
"Do you believe that you have the right to choose your method of birth control with advice from your doctor? ... If you answered YES to [this] question, you are pro-choice."
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Undated pamphlet entitled "Choice," issued by the Colorado affiliate of the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL).
"For Rosie Jiminez, it is already too late. Working to support her young daughter and going to school to improve her life, Rosie could not afford a pregnancy. Because of congressional legislation restricting the federal Medicaid funds she depended on for her health care, she also could not afford a legal abortion. Rosie was forced to go to an illegal abortionist. Her death was tortured, bloody — and unnecessary."
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National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL). Undated 4-page two-color 8-1/2" X 11" propaganda flyer entitled "Do You Want to Return to the Butchery of Self-Induced or Back-Alley Abortion?" The purpose of this propaganda was to attempt to overturn the Hyde Amendment, even though Jiminez' death had nothing to do with abortion funding.
National Alliance for Optional Parenthood (NAOP)
"Thank you for your interest in the Pronatalism in Textbooks Project and for volunteering your assistance. With your help and that of others we will be able to further the principle goal of this project; the elimination of pronatalist content in textbooks and children's books.
"At this point, we need people to examine textbooks and evaluate them for pronatalist content ..."
"Pronatalism refers to social and economic systems and attitudes that exalt the role of parent and assume or encourage parenthood for all ... Pronatalism can lead to sexist stereotyping; limited roles, especially for women; overpopulation; inadequate or abusive parenting; feelings of inadequacy or ostracism for couples who, by choice or fate, have no children and are a "two-person family."
"Pronatalism is sometimes so subtle that we often are unaware of its existence. The following criteria will be helpful in identifying pronatalism in textbooks;
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Definition of family to exclude couples without children.
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Large families favored over one-child or no child families.
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Failure to discuss family planning when appropriate.
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Theories of "maternal instinct" or maternity as central to women's lives.
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Bias against abortion ..."
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Undated form letter and attachment entitled "Criteria for Identifying Pronatalism in Books" to volunteers from the National Alliance for Optional Parenthood (NAOP), 2010 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036, signed by Gail McKirdy, "Resource Director" [NOTE: NAOP's Advisory Council reads like a horror buff's lineup of celebrities: It numbers among its many members Lee Salk, Alvin Toffler, Geraldo Rivera, Paul Ehrlich, and Shirley MacLaine].
"The symbolic message in policies of this kind may be interpreted as "approval" for parenthood, there being no comparable benefits for those without children."
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The National Association for Optional Parenthood (NAOP), condemning Holiday Inn's "Kids Eat Free" program in "Pronatalism: A "Hidden Persuader" Limits Personal Rights." (3rd edition). 4-page brochure distributed by NAOP, publication number A-4, 1979.
"FIRST PRIZE: A Solid Gold Condom.
"From using a condom you will learn
No deposit means no return."
SECOND PRIZE: A Bronzed Wallet with Circular [Condom] Indentation.
"Rubberizing copulation
Puts a cap on population."
THIRD PRIZE: A Gross of Condoms (144) for the Night of Your Life.
"When you rise ... Condomize."
FINALISTS.
"Twins are bad, triplets worse,
Use a condom, safety first!"
"Rubbers are jolly, rubbers are fun,
Better to use one than end up a mum.""
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Winners of the Population Institute's "Condom Couplet Contest." Described in the National Alliance for Optional Parenthood's "Searching for Alternatives to Teenage Pregnancy," 1980 [NOTE: Winners of the contest were announced on a special Condom Day designated on February 20, 1978. Entrants were instructed to make up a two-line "poem" that denigrated the value of children and parenthood. There were more than 500 entrants, all examined by a three-judge panel consisting of a teenaged girl, a sex educator, and the senior editor of Rolling Stone Magazine.]
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Republicans are "neo-fascists," "the white-people's party" and "a crazed swarm of right-wing locusts who draw their most rabid supporters from the Taliban wing of American politics, and now they want to write bigotry back into the U.S. Constitution."
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NAACP chairman Julian Bond, at the organization's 2004 national convention. "NAACP Loses Presidential Addresses by Hateful Anti-Bush Rhetoric." LifeSite Daily News, July 16, 2004.
National Association of School-Based Clinics (NASBC)
"Be willing to make compromises. Better something than nothing. Do not compromise on being in school. In Kansas City, they met with religious leaders and agreed to leave out birth control. Eight months later, birth-control services were added. Get your foot in the door. Be trusted. Total health care means birth control."
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Kathleen Arnold-Sheeran, founder of the National Association of School-Based Clinics (NASBC), quoted in Michael Schwartz. "Sex as Apple Pie." National Review, June 10, 1988, pages 39, 40, and 57.
National Audobon Society
"As long as there is a third world, there will never be one world. By meeting women's critical need for family planning services in the developing world, we would see a marked improvement in the quality of life for all. Access to voluntary contraception, health care and sex education would allow women to space pregnancies apart and plan the size of their families — leading to better health, more educational opportunities, and reduced pressure on our planet's natural resources. Help make a world of difference. Visit our Web site [www.familyplanet.org] to learn how."
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Two-page color ad entitled "SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL FAMILY PLANNING," contained in The Washington Post Magazine, May 27, 2001, pages 16 and 17. This ad was sponsored by organizations listed on the bottom of the page: CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere), the National Audobon Society, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Population Action International, and Save the Children.
National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (NCADP)
"The irony underlying Scalia's comments is this: In suggesting that judges who have a religiously-based opposition to the death penalty should resign, Scalia is implying that religion and politics should not mix. But he is twisting and convoluting his religion based on political belief. In my view, that is the most dangerous type of judge there is."
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Steven W. Hawkins, Executive Director, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. Letter to Conscience (newsletter of 'Catholics' for a Free Choice), Summer 2002 [Volume XXIII, Number 2], page 43 [NOTE: This statement is so astoundingly hypocritical because CFFC says that judges who oppose abortion should be removed; yet they criticize Justice Scalia for saying the same thing about judges who oppose the death penalty!]
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.
National Committee for Gay Civil Rights (NCGCR)
"THIS IS OUR CREED"
(1)
"We believe every adult and child has the right to decide for themselves their own sexual orientation.
(2)
We believe every individual or group which condemns homosexuality as wrong or sinful is guilty of bigotry.
(3)
We believe every child is entitled to non-discriminatory sex educational courses without parental interference ... and to fulfill their destinies according to their sexual orientations.
(4)
We define sexual orientation as any and every inclination or impulse which nature bestows upon a person [NOTE: This obviously represents a demand for 'straight' recognition of bestiality, among other things].
(5)
We reject the notion that any private act or behavior between consenting adults or children is unnatural or disordered [NOTE: This is an obvious demand for legalized child sexual abuse, or, as homosexual activists call it, "intergenerational love"].
(6)
We demand the recognition of homosexuality as a legitimate alternative lifestyle equal in all respects to traditional lifestyles.
(7)
We demand judicial, legislative, and executive action to protect our sexual orientations and preferences.
(8)
We condemn all groups — religious or otherwise — who preach sexual bigotry and discrimination.
(9)
We condemn those misguided parents who impose their homophobic prejudices upon their children.
(10)
We assert there is nothing higher than man himself to decide moral and ethical values and that god made man supreme.
(11)
We defend the rights of atheists, anarchists, and agnostics to live by their values and beliefs according to their consciences. In this we are united.
(12)
We condemn all those who presume to pass judgement on others.
(13)
We believe in equal rights for all and equal pay for equal work and assert that no corporation, government agency, or religious or educational group has the right to restrict or discourage private homosexual activity.
(14)
We believe our human rights will be realized in a social and political order where truth and justice prevail.
(15)
This we believe. This is our creed."
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National Committee for Gay Civil Rights. 1984 Draft III internal review copy entitled "This is Our Creed" [NOTE: Notice that most of these items begin with the words "We condemn" or "We demand." This is typical of the homosexual mentality; there is no compromise, just a selfish expectation that everyone must yield completely to them. Note that items 2, 8, and 9 specifically condemn all those groups and people who may believe differently from homosexual activists, who demand that their beliefs be acknowledged. This hypocritical double standard is also typical of the homosexual mindset. In their mad and almost illiterate rush to draw up their list of demands, this homosexual group has made numerous logical mistakes in their "creed." For instance, note that item 10 acknowledges the existence of a god, but that man instead is supreme. Also note that item 12 is comically self-contradictory].
National Conference of Christians and Jews (NCCJ), pamphlet entitled "Guidelines for Civil Occasions: Public Prayer in the Pluralistic Society."
National Education Association (NEA)
"The [National Education] Association supports the United States Supreme Court decisions that guarantee reproductive freedom to all women. The Association urges all branches of federal, state and local governments to give high priority to complying with these Supreme Court decisions and to making available all methods of family planning to women unable to take advantage of private facilities."
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National Education Association (NEA), resolution adopted at its July 1978 annual national meeting. As described in "NEA Endorses Reproductive Freedom." Options [Newsletter of the 'Religious' Coalition for Abortion Rights (RCAR)], November/December 1978, page 12.
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
"The American Family Association has a 24-point political agenda it would like to see attained by the year 2000. It includes the elimination of democracy, elimination of public schools, advocates that astrologers, adulterers, blasphemers, homosexuals, and incorrigible children be executed, preferably by stoning. That's one of our enemies. This is true."
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National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) General Counsel Julianne Ross Davis, quoted in "AFA Sues NEA General Counsel." The Wanderer, December 6, 1990, page 2 [NOTE: When members of the public and of Congress objected to Davis' lies, NEA Chairman John Frohnmeyer vigorously defended her by stating under oath that Davis presented "... the views and position of the NEA. In fact, the statements that Ms. Davis made during the public presentation that the plaintiffs complain of were not only part of her official duties, but are also exactly the type of speech that she is employed to perform" ("Federal Judge Restrains NEA's Top Lawyer on AFA Comments." American Family Association Journal, July 1991, page 10)].
Displays of artwork using aborted preborn babies were vigorously defended by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) because all of the participating artists were pro-abortion and were transmitting a pro-abortion message. After this kind of 'work' drew a barrage of protests, National Council on the Arts member Jacob Neusner proposed that the NEA adopt language prohibiting the funding of works of art that "utilize and part of an actual human embryo or fetus." He was laughed at, and his proposal was defeated by the lopsided score of 10 to 2. Three NEA council members privately said to him that "You can make beautiful earrings out of pieces of fetuses."
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"Some Praise 'Fetus Earrings:' NEA Council Defeats Commonsense Reforms Inside Washington." Action News (Pro-Life Action League, Chicago), December 1990/January 1991, page 15.
National Gay Rights Advocates (NGRA)
"'Dial-a-porn' can save lives by providing an alternative to unsafe sex. Whether people like it or not, it has important social value, and is entitled to Constitutional protection."
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Benjamin Schatz, Executive Director of the National Gay Rights Advocates AIDS Civil Rights Project, as described in National Newsline. "Supreme Court to Hear Arguments on Phone Sex." The Lavender Network May 1989, page 57.
National Health Service (NHS) (Great Britain)
"There is no room for Catholics in this part of the National Health Service."
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A British National Health Service official, quoted in "The New Scandal: Doctor on the Dole." London Daily Express, January 12, 1973 [NOTE: The British National Health Service does not allow gynecologists to refuse to perform abortions, and conscience clauses are unheard of under the British socialized medical system].
National Institutes of Health (NIH) (United States)
"Human embryonic and fetal tissues are available from the Central Laboratory for Human Embryology at the University of Washington. The laboratory, which is supported by the National Institutes of Health, can supply tissues from normal or abnormal embryos and fetuses of desired gestational ages between 40 days and term." [NOTE: "Term" means that the NIH is extracting tissues from babies aborted just before birth]. "Specimens are obtained within minutes of passage and tissues are aseptically identified, staged, and immediately processed according to the requirements of individual investigators."
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National Institute of Health (NIH) booklet extolling its products, quoted in Charley Reese. "Two Evils Join Forces on Abortion." Social Justice Review [Catholic Central Union of America], May/June 2000, page 67.
National Organization for Women (NOW)
"[Valerie Solanis is] the first outstanding champion of women's rights."
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Ti-Grace Atkinson, former President of the New York Chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), quoted by Nancy Hulse, Womynkind Productions. "About Valerie Solanas." Downloaded from http://www.bcn.net/~jpiazzo/valbio.htm on June 28, 1999 (no longer available) [NOTE: Valerie Solanas was a drug addict, prostitute, and author of pornographic novels who liked to write plays about women violently killing men. In 1967, she wrote and self-published the "SCUM Manifesto." Solanas got her "15 minutes of fame" on June 4, 1968, when she shot Andy Warhol. She explained this attempted murder by saying "Read my [SCUM] manifesto and it will tell you who I am." When asked later if it is moral to shoot people, she replied "I consider that a moral act. And I consider it immoral that I missed. I should have done target practice." Solanas was not disavowed by the feminists for her sick and murderous behavior; she was instead embraced as a hero, as shown above].
"I'd like to see them string [Scott Peterson] up any way they can. ... There's something about this that bothers me a little bit. Was it [Laci's preborn child] born, or was it unborn? If it was unborn, then I can't see charging [Peterson] with a double murder. ... If this is murder, well, then any time a late-term fetus is aborted, they could call it murder. ... [Connor] was wanted and expected, and [Laci Peterson] had a name for him, but if he wasn't born, he wasn't born. It sets a kind of precedent."
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April 19, 2003 comments by Mavra Stark (Morris County, New Jersey chapter president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), quoted in Sara Rimensnyder. "Abortion Rights and the Laci Peterson Case." Reason Daily, April 21, 2003.
"Marriage means rape and lifelong slavery. [Childbirth] is very painful. It's so immature to grow babies in people's bodies. If we had test-tube babies, there would be less chance of a deformed fetus. ... We reject marriage both in theory and in practice. ... Love has to be destroyed. It's an illusion that people care for each other. Friendship is reciprocal, love isn't. ... In the good society, we can't tell what will happen to sexual attraction. It may be that sex is a neurotic manifestation of oppression. It's like a mass psychosis. ... The more I understand what's going on with men, the less I miss male companionship and sex. Men brag about domination, conquest, trickery, exploitation. It gets so I can't even respond. Male chauvinism comes out in waves — every gesture, every word."
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Ti-Grace Atkinson, former President of the New York Chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), quoted in Sara Davidson. "An 'Oppressed Majority' Demands Its Rights." Life Magazine, December 12, 1969, page 69.
Paul Anka's song "Having My Baby" hit Number 1 on the charts in the United States and Number 2 in Canada. Seals and Croft's song "Unborn Baby" was also very popular. The National Organization for Women (NOW) succeeded in having the latter record banned from numerous radio stations in the United States, and voted both singing groups as recipients of its "Keep Her in Her Place" award.
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Vital Signs. "Keeping the NOW Persons Busy." National Right to Life News, October 1974, page 15.
"Congress should vote to take away all federal funds from [ERA] unratified states. Government contracts and water projects should also be taken away."
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A National Organization for Women (NOW) spokesperson, quoted in The Review of the NEWS, June 8, 1977, pages 29 and 30.
"How can you tell who is the bride at a Church of Christ wedding? She's the one who is barefoot and pregnant. How many right-to-lifers does it take to change a light bulb? First, John Waddey, Henry Hyde, Mildred Jefferson, and the Willkes lift the Pope on their shoulders, and then they screw us all."
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Knoxville National Organization for Women (NOW) flyer dated March 1979 distributed in local neighborhoods. "Tennessee [NOW] Official Says Shift 'Polack Jokes' to Right to Life." National Right to Life News, April 1979, page 3.
"Love is the victim's response to the rapist."
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Ti-Grace Atkinson former President of the New York Chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), quoted in Jonathon Green. The Cynic's Lexicon [New York City: St. Martin's Press], 1984.
"3. Refocus the abortion debate by:
b.
Linking the anti-abortion movement to death and starvation in the Third World, especially Africa; and
c.
Organizing 'Vatican Embassy Days of Outrage' to protest the Pope's continual interference in our political arena and the Catholic Church Hierarchy's work to outlaw abortions and birth control;
6.
Continue the highly successful clinic escorts and clinic vigil actions as needed."
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Excerpts from the platform of the National Organization for Women (NOW), adopted at its July 19-21, 1985 New Orleans National Convention.
"The Right Wing's disgraceful use of the tragedy of AIDS has caused unquestionable harm. ... We must join the effort to repeal state sodomy statutes which classify lesbians and gay men as criminals in 25 states ... Lesbian mother's rights to their children are under increased attack. NOW must be in the forefront of defending these mother's families. ... I will help build a strong alliance between NOW and the peace movement. As a member of the SANE board and Nuclear Freeze Voter, I understand these issues and their crucial importance to eliminating the feminization of poverty and sexism in the world."
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Ellie Smeal, former President of the National Organization for Women (NOW), excerpts from her campaign platform, distributed at the 1985 NOW National Convention.
"Since marriage constitutes slavery for women, it is clear that the women's movement must concentrate on attacking this institution. Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage."
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Sheila Cronan, at the 1988 Houston National Organization for Women (NOW) Conference for Women.
"Catholics have to turn their backs on the Church. ... The Knights of Columbus in Minnesota run bingo games and turn the money over to the right-to-life crowd — a totally illegal procedure. They don't seem to have any feeling about breaking the law. ... We are now declaring a state of emergency for the women of America. We will not go back to illegal abortions. We aren't going to obey the law."
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Molly Yard, former president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), in a January 8, 1989 speech, upon hearing that the United States Supreme Court would review Roe v. Wade in its Webster case. Quoted in "Reproductive Rights: Not a Single-Issue Struggle." People's Daily World, March 29, 1990, page 12.
"We are going to have to face — as China has faced — the policy of controlling the size of families, and to assume that we can go on without facing this responsibility is totally irresponsible. ... I consider the Chinese government's [population control] policy among the most intelligent in the world. ... it is a policy limited to the heavily overpopulated areas and it is an attempt to feed the people of China. I find it very intelligent."
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Molly Yard, former president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), on the March 1989 "Oprah Winfrey Show."
"China's population is so enormous that if they didn't control it, they wouldn't be able to feed their people. The Chinese government doesn't coerce people. They use education. It's very clear when you're there. You can't miss it. Even if you can't read the language, you can't miss it."
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Molly Yard, former president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), at an April 7, 1989 press conference, quoted by Mary Meehan. "Women as Guinea Pigs." National Catholic Register, April 30, 1989, page 4.
"One of the most important and powerful symbols of wimin's [sic] spiritual strength is our blood. menarche, menstruation and menopause have long been regarded as the most mystical aspects of wimin's [sic] power; the power to renew life.
"In ancient societies, wimin [sic] who bled held the ultimate power and the ultimate honor. red was a sacred color associated with wimin [sic], their blood, new life and regenerative mystery. ancient tombs everywhere have held bones of the dead colored with red ochre, to be born again from the earth mother's womb. in matrifocal societies, post-menopausal wimin [sic] were the most highly honored, probably due to beliefs that they 'held in' their majik [sic] blood.
"since menstruation was (and continues to be) an unexplainable and unexperienceable mystery to men, it is not surprising that they developed awe, fear and later, paranoia about it. with the rise of patriarchal societies, our precious blood has been transformed into the world's most dreaded poison. ... the patriarchy has somehow convinced us to deceive ourselves; that menstruation doesn't even happen. ...
"so why do we, as wimin [sic] witches, continue to participate in this mockery of our truest selves? we've cried outrage at the gynocide of the burning times, we've struggled to peel away the patriarchal whitewashing of our goddesses, but still we go along with this denial of our primordial power. ... why can't we respond with enthusiasm and honor the womon [sic] that's bleeding? after all, doesn't she still represent the goddess/creatrix in her ultimate power?
"i remember a wimin's [sic] self-help group from the '70s where wimin [sic] would wear a red string around their wrists when they bled. every other womon [sic] in the group understood the symbolism and men, of course, were oblivious. tell another womon [sic] when you bleed and smile about it. put on a special red shirt during your bleeding times. ... at your next wimin's [sic] circle/ritual/gathering, ask who is bleeding and make her the special, honored womon [sic] that nite [sic].
"at the 'michigan womyn's [sic] music festival, i saw a womon [sic] who wore a white t-shirt with 'i am menstruating' printed in red. give your daughter/granddaughter a special gift, wrapped in red paper, when she starts bleeding. or better yet, throw her a party with her friends and yours. ... insist that pagan/witches/wimmins [sic] gatherings have a 'blood hut' where bleeding wimin [sic, sic, sic] come to create and share power. bleed onto the earth.
"we have centuries of ingrained patriarchal mind-numbing to renounce and eliminate from our consciousness. it is up to us to bring menstruation out of the closet. ... as witches, we must no longer suppress our bodies' most mystical powers.
"ayla heartsong is the recently chosen name of the womon [sic] named mary e. stanton at birth. she is a dianic dyke who sings and paints when she bleeds."
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Ayla Heartsong. "Bloodtalk." Newsletter of the Kalamazoo Chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), June-July 1989 [emphasis, lack of correct capitalization and spelling in the original].
"... with 35,000 children already waiting in foster homes for adoptive parents, adoption is not the answer for women with unwanted pregnancies."
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Molly Yard, former President of the National Organization for Women (NOW, quoted in Todd Ackerman. "The Campaign Against Adoption." National Catholic Register, July 23, 1989, pages 1 and 6 [NOTE: Yard's figure, of course, was completely unsubstantiated and was easily disproved].
"Every woman must be willing to be identified as a lesbian to be fully feminist ... no woman is free to be a woman until every lesbian is free to be a lesbian."
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National Organization for Women (NOW) memo quoted in the September 6, 1989 Washington Times.
"Lesbians have always been on the front line of the abortion issue because a woman's right to choose ultimately includes not only reproductive freedom, but the right to choose one's sexuality."
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Molly Yard, former President of the National Organization for Women (NOW), at the National NOW Conference, July 21-23, 1989, held in Cincinnati, Ohio. Quoted in the homosexual newspaper The Lavender Network, September 1989, page 64 [NOTE: Whatever happened to "born that way?]
"Demented and sadistic are words that describe the conduct of this bully of a man who seeks to use the law to inflict physical or mental pain on women via forced pregnancy. [Pennsylvania state legislator Steven] Freind treats women as if their purpose in life is to be receptacles for men's sperm."
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Chris Niebrzydowski, president of the Pennsylvania chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), after passage of the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act of 1989, which was authored by state legislator Stephen Freind, which would have put only minor restrictions on abortion. Quoted in the Greensburg [Pennsylvania] Tribune-Review, October 4, 1989.
"We truly represent the majority of Americans in this instance, and in a democracy, the majority rules."
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Tammy Bruce, president of the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), asserting that only Left-wing groups have the moral right to boycott. Quoted in Laureen Lazarovici. "Should We Call It a Girlcott?" Willamette Week (Portland, Oregon), December 13-19, 1990.
"In 1988, ALFIZA MAUMAUD was burned to death in Bahramabad, Iran, for having an abortion. Little more than a decade ago, this would have been unthinkable. But when the forces of ignorance and intolerance gain control, history shows that ANYTHING is possible."
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Excerpts from Lamra Walsdron's "Burning Issue," a propaganda piece in the "Choices" comic book published in 1990 by Angry Isis Press of San Francisco for the National Organization for Women (NOW). "Choices" was certainly not some local mimeographed scandal sheet; it was printed on the finest bond, with a glossy cover, introduced by Congresswoman Pat Schroeder [D.-umb], and signed by Molly Yard, then-president of the NOW.
"Hitler had a conscience, he [the "Donahue" guest] said. Hitler made a conscious decision to kill Jews. If Hitler had a Christian conscience, he said, it wouldn't have happened. This guy kept calling a woman's choice the "Abortion Holocaust." This pisses me off!
"I mean, does this guy really think that a woman's right to decide for herself can be equated with ovens and gas chambers and medical experiments?"
"Can he actually compare getting on a bus to go to a clinic with being herded onto trains like cattle (worse than cattle), and being delivered into the gates of hell, gates with names like Auschwitz, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Treblinka?"
"Does he really believe that going through an elective ambulatory procedure is the same as being strapped down on a table and having your ovaries irradiated and then removed, without consent, without anesthesia?"
"Jesus Christ! And that's the only Christian thing I can say about it! How dare he equate the suffering of millions upon millions (and not only Jews) which was thrust upon them by a madman and his murdering hordes, with a conscience, Christian or otherwise ... with personal choice?"
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Excerpts from a propaganda piece in the "Choices" comic book published in 1990 by Angry Isis Press of San Francisco for the National Organization for Women (NOW). "Choices" was certainly not some local mimeographed scandal sheet; it was printed on the finest bond, with a glossy cover, introduced by Congresswoman Pat Schroeder [D.-umb], and signed by Molly Yard, then-president of the NOW [NOTE: The unborn are indeed incinerated in specially-made Austrian ovens after they are killed. Late-term babies are also the subjects of ghastly medical experiments. Women are herded into clinics by escorts, rushed through assembly-line abortions, and hustled out the door as soon as they can stagger a few steps. No time to think it over, no other options, no informed consent. And the clinics, by whatever name, are the gates to the tortures of Hell for their unborn children. Unborn babies — and now, even newborn anencephalic babies — do indeed often have their organs removed without consent and without anesthesia. Call it anything you want, but the only difference is this: Instead of having black-garbed SS troops oversee the execution of millions, now the victim's own mothers willingly carry them to the slaughter — all in the name of 'freedom of choice!' The final panel of this clever propaganda shows the woman, with a determined look on her face vividly reminiscent of a Red Chinese propaganda poster, volunteering for "Clinic Defense," as she gallantly thinks, " I'm insulted. No, it's worse. I'm disgusted. As a Jew ... and as a woman." We pro-lifers are disgusted, too — and that is why we so adamantly oppose this slaughter of the innocents!]
Jesus Loves Reproductive Freedom
(sung to the tune of "Jesus Loves the Little Children")
Jesus loves reproductive freedom
Freedom all over the world
With all our might we fight to defend women's rights
Jesus loves reproductive freedom in the world
Jesus loves Medicaid funding
Abortion funding for the poor
Oh, abortion should be free and without apology
Jesus loves abortion funding for the poor
We Wish You a Safe Abortion
(sung to the tune of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas")
We wish you a safe abortion
We wish you a safe abortion
We wish you a safe abortion
At the clinic today
Good tidings we bring for your GYN
Good tidings for health care
And a happy pap smear!
Amazing Choice
(sung to the tune of "Amazing Grace")
Amazing choice
That is our right
For now and evermore
It won't be lost because we'll fight
To clear the clinic door
The bullies try to make us fear
But women stand up strong
For choice, that right that we hold dear,
We'll right their every wrong.
Pro-Choice is Marching On, or
The Battle Hymn of the Pro-Choice Republic
(sung to the tune of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic")
Mine eyes will see the glory of the opening of the door
We are driving off the bullies and are rising to the fore
With our sisters we will struggle while the sexist bullies roar
Our choice we will defend
Glory, glory hallelujah
The antis think they can rule you
But women will control our bodies and our lives
Pro-choice is marching on.
Choice Defended
(sung to the tune of "The Lord Liveth")
Choice defended, respected to be our right
As we all stand together for our freedom
We're women united, pro-choice men beside us
We stand arm in arm against the bullies.
We've Got the Pro-Choice World in Our Hands
(sung to the tune of "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands")
We've got the pro-choice world in our hands,
We've got the pro-choice world in our hands,
We've got the pro-choice world in our hands
We'll keep the clinic open with our hands ...
Randall Terry is in jail ...
And Joe Scheidler will be there too...
Pat Mahoney will be there too ...
Christyanne Collins and Joe Foreman ...
The whole gang'll be there soon
(Terry, Scheidler, Mahoney and Foreman are national leaders of Operation Rescue; Collins is a local Virginia leader - insert the names of your favorite anti's!!)
It's My Body
(sung to the tune of "It's My Party")
It's my body and I'll breed if I want to,
Breed if I want to
Breed if I want to
It's your choice too if it happens to you.
Safe and Legal
(sung to the tune of "Frere Jacques")
Safe and legal, safe and legal
It's our right, it's our right
With our banners waving, we'll continue saving
Women's lives, women's lives
Safe and legal, safe and legal
Raise your voice, raise your voice
Keep the clinic open, keep the clinic open
It's our choice, it's our choice
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Sheet entitled "Pro-Choice Songs" distributed with the convention handbook for the National Organization for Women (NOW) September 1990 convention in Tallahassee, Florida.
"What is moral about denying family planning funds to China, which is what the United States has done, because the Chinese have a policy of allowing abortions and encouraging a one-child family? What is moral about insisting that our point of view should be adopted by the Chinese when the only responsible policy they can have is to control family planning?"
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Molly Yard, former president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), in her keynote address at the 1990 NOW National Convention. Quoted by Debra J. Saunders, Los Angeles Daily News. "NOW's Shrillness Becomes Embarrassment to Feminism." August 7, 1989, page D4.
"Not only did Roe v. Wade free women, it also vastly improved women's health; prior to Roe, illegal abortion was the leading cause of maternal death in this country. ... For seventeen years women have had this [abortion] freedom, but by your consideration of David Souter for appointment to the Supreme Court you are really considering ending freedom for women in this country. We believe from Judge Souter's record that he will be the fifth vote to overturn Roe v. Wade and furthermore he might overturn Griswold v. Connecticut. This country must not go back to illegal abortion or illegal birth control. If that happens, the law will be broken! Courageous doctors will break the law. Desperate women will break the law. The underworld will flourish with back alley abortion butchers and women will die. There will not be enough jails to house the women who will have illegal abortions and those who will help maintain that option.
"In summary we repeat our opposition to the confirmation of David Souter. It is important that the Court maintain a balance. To replace Justice Brennan it is important to have someone in his mold; Judge Souter will tip the Court dangerously out of balance and away from the strong support for individual rights which Brennan so brilliantly upheld [NOTE: It seems all right to Yard, of course, if the Supreme Court is "dangerously out of balance" in the pro-abortion direction] ...
"What is at stake for American women is far too important for us to do anything but urge you not to confirm him. American women's lives are literally on the line. If we should lose the right to control our reproductive lives the social fabric of our society will be torn apart.
"Are you prepared to deny freedom to women?
"Are you prepared to deny reproductive health to women?
"Are you prepared for lawlessness, and for the death of your daughters and your granddaughters?
"I tremble for this country if you confirm David Souter. But most of all I tremble for the women of America and their families."
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Testimony of Molly Yard, President of the National Organization for Women (NOW) before the Senate Judiciary Committee against the confirmation of David Souter, September 18, 1990, pages 6, 7, 14 and 15.
"So the women are still being hassled because they let some of the sidewalk counselors stay out, and that's the next step forward, I think [to eliminate sidewalk counseling]. Not just gaining access, not just having the injunctions to write them and all that stuff, but to say "No." Even if you're out there and you're not physically diving at doorways or knocking us down, you're still violating our rights. I do not want to see a church service when I'm going in to see my gynecologist."
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Beth David, at the National Organization for Women (NOW) National Conference, New York City, July 5, 1991.
"I think sex-selection abortion is a horrifying symptom that women are still being ignored and disregarded as human beings in virtually every society in the world. The real issue in question here is not abortion, but the treatment of women."
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Francoise Jacobsohn, president of the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), quoted in Eve Glicksman. "Breeding for Gender Encourages 'Shopping Mentality.'" The Oregonian, June 18, 1991, page B7. Also see R. Rao. "Move to Stop Sex-Test Abortion." Nature Magazine. November 20-26, 1986, page 202 [NOTE: Notice how "the real issue is not abortion." Of course not! It never is. Jacobsohn's 'logic' is like saying that "The real issue is not rape, but men's sexual rights." To admit that the real issue is abortion would be psychic death to pro-abortionists].
"Article 6. And the National Organization for Women, for the first time in its history, officially calls for civil disobedience. "We Won't Go Back!""
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NOW resolution of July 1991 entitled "We Won't Go Back."
"WHEREAS, there is nothing more fundamental to American women than freedom of choice, and the U.S. Supreme Court, in Cruzan, has now established that there is a right to choose to die ... THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the National Organization for Women affirms that the right to make appropriate and legal choices about dying is a feminist issue."
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National Organization for Women (NOW) resolution of July 1991 entitled "The Right to Choose to Die — A Feminist Issue."
"We are most uneasy about the step this legislation takes toward protecting the unborn at the expense of women's freedom."
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New York chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), quoted in Angela Hornsby. "Drinking Warnings Required." The Oregonian, Tuesday, June 25, 1991, page A10 [NOTE: This was in reaction to the New York State legislature passing a law requiring liquor shops to post signs about possible harm to preborn babies through Fetal Alcohol Syndrome].
"Open defiance, by the way, we've got to ask the doctors and the nurses to openly defy [the ban against counseling for abortion in Federal clinics]. Incidentally, they are saying that doctors are saying "I openly defy this law." They not only need to stand up and say "I'm going to defy the law," they've got to follow through and we've got to support them."
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Ellie Smeal, former President of the National Organization for Women (NOW). "RU-486, NORPLANT, and Title X." Speech delivered and recorded at the 1991 NOW national conference in New York City, July 5-7, 1991.
"Men have been running things for thousands of years, and what do we have to show for it? War, pollution, the S&L thing ... Why do men always have to run things? You know what it is? It's their penis. They think with it, they talk with it, they just can't get past it. They can't receive. They can't conceive. So what do they do? They make up for it by attacking and blundering and overtaking! This isn't upset, this is empowered! ... Did you ever stop to think about that word ... History? HIS-story ... Everything about the way we perceive things in life is determined by men. And I for one, I'm sick of it. And I'm not gonna have my past or any other woman's past mauled, groped or otherwise pawed by a bunch of men for the benefit of other men!"
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Molly Yard, former President of the National Organization for Women (NOW). Quotes made during the September 23, 1991 episode of CBS' Northern Exposure. Also quoted in Brent Bozell. "Northern Exposure Doesn't Disappoint Liberals." Conservative Chronicle, February 17, 1993, page 27.
"We will break the law to make sure women have the right to safe, legal abortions."
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Patricia Ireland, former President of the National Organization for Women (NOW), quoted in Karen S. Schneider and Elizabeth Velez. "Too Nice to Be One of 'Those Women?'" People Magazine, January 13, 1992, pages 93 and 94.
Great Falls, Montana: "What is the difference between your recent support of President Clinton, in the Lewinsky matter, and your organization's indifference when Senator Bob Packwood, was forced out of the Senate for similar activities? Could it be a matter of Party affiliation?"
Ireland: "Big difference. Dozens of women charged Packwood had physically harassed them against their will, forcing his tongue in unwilling women's mouths. Monica's not complained that anything was against her will except Ken Starr's thugs holding her incommunicado at the Radison and threatening her and her "mommy" with jail."
Rockville, MD: "What is your position on partial birth abortions? How could such a grotesque procedure be justified?"
Ireland: "The U.S. Senate voted against making an exception to the abortion procedure ban even if continued pregnancy threatened serious adverse consequences to a woman's physical health. NOW thinks women's health counts. The language of these bans is so broad and vague it could cover any abortion procedure at any stage. And the grotesque rhetoric covers a congress that has not only voted not to allow the FDA to approve RU486, which provides safer medical abortions at the earliest possible time, but also voted to cut family planning funding. The procedures ban is also another election year wedge issue."
Minneapolis, MN: "Don't you think it's a bit outrageous that your group supports a president who uses women as sexual objects. How do you justify this?"
Ireland: "We don't support the President. We support women's rights and the empowerment of women. So, why would we want to join forces with people who want to bring down Clinton and the democrats as well as our movement and the laws we've won?"
Palm Harbor: "Why not just admit that your support for the President is just because he is a Democrat? If a Republican had exhibited the very same behavior or even less boorish behavior you would hound him from office. And if you say no to this then name a single Republican that you have supported?"
Ireland: "Women weren't born Democrat, we weren't born Republican, but we weren't born yesterday."
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Patricia Ireland, President of the National Organization for Women (NOW), on "Q&A With Patricia Ireland" on Washington Post columnist Bob Levey's "Levey Live" at washingtonpost.com.
Malin: "It [polygamy] seems like a pretty good idea for professional women, who can proceed with their careers and have someone at home they can trust to watch their children. It solves the day care problem. ... If NOW is about anything, it's about choice."
George: "This isn't blatant support for polygamy, but maybe it can work for some people, and maybe it can make raising children easier. ... We fight for lesbian families and single-parent families. I don't know why we wouldn't support this."
Frodge: [NOW endorses] "an expanded definition of family, including same-sex parents, so it is very difficult to look at that and not support other configurations of families, including polygamous families."
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Luci Malin, Vice-Chairman of the Utah chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), Ellen George, state secretary for Utah NOW, and Robin Frodge, a Utah NOW member who serves on NOW's national board. "Polygamy Could Help Moms Who Work, Says Utah's NOW." Deseret News, August 12, 1997. Article downloaded from downloaded from http://www.patriarchywebsite.com/resources/polygamy-working-moms.htm on June 11, 2001 (no longer available) [NOTE: Malin and George made their comments in response to questions about a report in the Summer 1997 issue of Women's Quarterly magazine, a publication of the Independent Women's Forum. The Mormon Church now excommunicates members who practice polygamy].
"We deplore his [Clinton's] misconduct but we also understand the hypocrisy of his opponents. We have years of progress at stake if the president is hounded out of office. But worse yet, we risk the ushering into power of a puritanical or fundamentalist sex police which speaks of freedom but allows government to destroy the right to privacy."
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Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority and former President of the National Organization for Women (NOW), quoted in "Feminist Support." Northern Virginia Daily, September 25, 1998, page 1.
"One way to immediately stop anti-abortion violence and send the message that harassment and terrorism are not acceptable is to stop demonstrating, protesting, and holding prayer vigils outside of health centers that provide reproductive health care and abortion services. Activities that take place outside of clinic doors are harassing and intimidating to the patients seeking health services and to the staff who work in the clinic. ... Cardinal George and the participants of Saturday's demonstration have a right to their opinions, however, gathering outside of a clinic is inappropriate and an act of aggression. ... We live in a democracy, anti-abortion supporters would be [sic] better to take their message to the steps of Congress."
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Chicago National Organization for Women (NOW). June 25, 1999 press release entitled "Chicago NOW Challenges Cardinal Francis George to Stop Health Center Demonstrations" [NOTE: Notice the standard tactic all anti-lifers use: That pro-lifers have the right to do whatever they want to, unless the anti-lifers disapprove of their actions].
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"School counselors should be required to take courses in human sexuality in which a comprehensive and positive view of lesbianism is presented. Lesbians as well as heterosexual counselors should be represented on the guidance staff.
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The names and phone numbers of gay counseling services should be made available to all students and school psychologists.
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Courses in sex education should be taught by persons who have taken the [pro-homosexual] human sexuality courses already mentioned. Students will thus be encouraged to explore alternate life styles, including lesbianism.
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Textbooks which do not mention lesbianism or which refer to it as a mental disorder should not be used in sex education courses.
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Lesbian Studies: Schools should set up lesbian studies programs in connection with women's studies programs to foster pride in the adolescent lesbian and to show heterosexual students that lesbians have made significant contributions to society. Learning about these contributions would foster positive feelings on the part of all students.
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Libraries: School libraries should be supplied with bibliographies of lesbian literature and urged to purchase novels, stories, poetry, and nonfiction books that portray the joy of women loving women. The use of these books should be encouraged in literature and history classes.
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Lesbian Clubs: Lesbian clubs should be established in the schools. Such organizations would help lesbians to develop pride in their life styles, and to help overcome the prejudice of heterosexual students and faculty."
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Jean O'Leary and Ginny Vida. "Lesbians and the Schools." This article appeared in the New York National Organization for Women (NOW) Newsletter under the title "Struggle to End Sex Bias — Report on Sex Bias in the Public Schools."
National Women's Health Network (NWHN)
"Anyone who could get their hands on an electric suction machine would be in business. ... Even now, women in this country who are desperate are bringing in doctored sonograms in order to get abortions."
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Cynthia Pearson of the National Women's Health Network (NWHN), talking about how women will commit illegal abortions after they are banned. Quoted in Brett Harvey. "The Morning After." Mother Jones, May 1989, pages 28 to 31 and 43.
Negative Population Growth (NPG)
"NPG [Negative Population Growth, Inc.] Proposes These Incentives to Motivate Parents to Have Not More than Two Children
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Eliminate the present Federal income tax exemption for dependent children born after a certain date.
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Give a Federal income tax credit only to those parents who have not more than two children. Those with three or more would lose the credit entirely.
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Give a refundable tax credit (cash payment) to low income parents who are eligible for the tax credit, to the extent that the credit exceeds their tax liability.
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Give a cash bonus for voluntary sterilization to both men and women under age 35, who have already had at least one child.
Two Vastly Different Paths Lie Before Us
"With reductions in immigration and fertility we advocate, our nation could start now on the path toward a sustainable population of 125 to 150 million."
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"Why we Need a Smaller U.S. Population and How We Can Achieve It." Advertisement by Negative Population Growth, Inc. in The New Republic, April 6, 1992, page 21 [emphasis in the original].
Nekervis, Robert
"Millions have bought the myth that Mother Teresa was a benevolent humanitarian. In reality, the neurotic little women from Yugoslavia was a hideous monster. She was an unprincipled thief who contributed to the world's suffering in the name of her delusional mysticism. In short, she was a disgusting human and the world is a better place with her absence."
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Robert Nekervis, The Lantern [the Ohio State University campus newspaper], October 23, 1998.
Nelson, Jack (Los Angeles Times)
"The American Spectator broke the story, as Gwen mentioned, because they're a very right-wing ideological publication. ... What really happened was there was a conspiracy, in my opinion, by right-wingers, including some right-wing journalists, to press this newspaper [the Los Angeles Times] into running this story before it was ready to, trying to get it out, and so they spread the rumor all around town that I had threatened to resign if it did run. ... I know one of the guys who was spreading it: Brit Hume of ABC, who covers the White House, who writes for The American Spectator. I know there's another conservative journalist who covers the White House, Fred Barnes, who's on the editorial board of The American Spectator ... So they were all promoting this story."
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Los Angeles Times Washington Bureau Chief Jack Nelson on PBS' "Washington Week in Review," December 24, 1993.
"When you're talking about pure journalists, I mean reporters, when you're talking about reporters, not columnists, I don't think there's any liberal bias. I don't think there really ever has been."
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Los Angeles Times Senior Washington correspondent Jack Nelson on CNBC's "Politics '96," March 9, 1996.
