"I do not think that is human life if one must live a damaged vegetative existence. It would have been horribly cruel to the abortus as well as to the family if the abortus had been put on a respirator — it would have been a mockery of medicine ... Life on a respirator is not life."
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Late-term abortionist Benjamin Waddill, quoted in Jeffrey Perlman. "Waddill Trial Has Heavy Impact." Los Angeles Times, May 15, 1978. Part I, page 3. Also see Dexter Duggan. "California Abortionist Testifies in His Own Defense." Life Advocate, May/June 1979, pages 14 to 16. Also see Susan Fraker and Janet Huck. "The Trial of Dr. Waddill." Newsweek Magazine, April 3, 1978, page 35. Also see "The Ordeal of a Divided Jury." Time Magazine, May 22, 1978, page 24 [NOTE: Abortionist Benjamin Waddill, a member of the Association of Planned Parenthood Physicians, performed a saline abortion on 19-year old Mary Weaver on March 2, 1977 at California's Westminster Community Hospital. Mary Weaver knew that she was at least 28 weeks pregnant, well into the third trimester. Her baby was healthy, she was not a victim of rape or incest or health problems, but she still wanted an abortion so she would not embarrass her father, who was principal of the high school that she had attended. After doing the saline infusion, Waddill left the scene. Later, he phoned the hospital and talked to a nurse who informed him that a viable baby had resulted from his abortion. Waddill instructed her "Don't do a Goddamn thing for that baby." He then returned to the hospital's newborn nursery, where the baby had been relocated, and ordered the area cleared of all medical personnel. He then choked Baby Girl Weaver four separate times, by pushing down on her windpipe with his thumb. Dr. Ronald Cornelson, the attending pediatrician, witnessed the entire sequence of events and subsequently brought charges against Waddill].
Wagner, James
"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.
Waibel, Father Kenneth (pro-homosexual activist)
"The only authentic spirituality is gay spirituality. ... Heterosexual men cannot fall in love with Jesus Christ because of their own homophobia. Jesus wants us to be erotically in love with him, and that's not possible with the homophobes."
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Father Kenneth Waibel, Richmond, Kentucky, during his seminar on gay and lesbian spirituality, fourth annual National Association of Catholic Diocesan Lesbian and Gay Ministries, September 4-7, 1997, Long Beach Sheraton Hotel. "Little Notes." San Diego News Notes, October 1997, page 5.
Wallace, Mike (CBS correspondent)
"You bet your ass they [the contracts] are hard to read ... if you're reading them over watermelon and tacos."
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CBS correspondent Mike Wallace, commenting on the difficulty Blacks and Hispanics have in understanding complex sales contracts. Quoted in Joseph Farah. "How Homosexual Thought Police Muzzled Rooney." American Family Association Journal, March 1990, page 20.
"The fact of the matter is that everybody you're looking at here is a reporter, and the fellow in Moscow [Dan Rather] as well, and we report about other people. There's not a commentator on this stage, and that fellow in Moscow is not a commentator. So we simply don't do what you're saying."
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"60 Minutes" correspondent Mike Wallace defending a panel of CBS reporters against charges of liberal bias, especially on abortion coverage, on the May 18, 1990 "Donahue" show.
"Many Soviets viewing the current chaos and nationalist unrest under Gorbachev look back almost longingly to the era of brutal order under Stalin."
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Mike Wallace on "60 Minutes," February 11, 1990.
Walshe, Anne (Manhattan abortion mill administrator)
"Abortion rights advocates argue that the truth, while not pretty, is not simple, either ... "This is a poverty issue. Don't let anybody tell you any different. You don't see a lot of middle-class women having second-trimester abortion," says Anne Walshe, the blunt-spoken administrator of a Manhattan abortion clinic that she wants to remain anonymous. Her clinic, one of the nation's busiest, does as many as 16,000 abortions a year. At least half are performed during the second trimester.
"Walshe shows little patience for the idea that a later procedure somehow poses a more difficult moral judgment. "What's the difference? Abortion is abortion. The nice folks who are debating this, who want to draw the line and put a limit on gestational age, will just be putting a restriction on poor women. Women who want abortions get them. It will just force the poor women back to unacceptable remedies."
"The realities that Walshe sees ever day, she admits, can be unsettling. "These women know they are pregnant, but not until the 16th or 17th week, when the fetus is kicking and bothering them, do they say, "Oh, I have to deal with this," she says. "It's not that these women are bad, or they're wrong. They're just poor. They don't lead organized, routine lives" [NOTE: This shows that any excuse is good enough for some people to support abortion. Being "disorganized" as a justification for late abortions is one of the lamest excuses yet. Of course, Walshe gets her paycheck from abortions, so maybe this is not surprising].
"The doctor does abortions up to 26 weeks, because he does not feel he can turn a 12- or 16-year old away and send her to be mother," the administrator of the Los Angeles clinic says."
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Karen Tumulty. "The Abortions of Last Resort: The Question of Ending Pregnancy in Its Later Stages May be the Most Anguishing of the Entire Abortion Debate." Los Angeles Times Magazine, January 7, 1990, pages 10, 12-15, 34, 35 and 37.
Walters, Barbara
"In the old Soviet Union, you never saw faces like these. The poor, the homeless, and the desperation of the Russian winter. Their numbers are growing. Tonight — Is this what democracy does? A look at the Russia you haven't seen before. ... The people of Russia are learning this winter that the price of freedom can be painfully high."
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Barbara Walters, opening Nightline statement, January 14, 1992.
Waples, Richard A. (American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU))
"She did what she had to do to protect both her physical and emotional health."
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Richard A. Waples of the Indiana Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), explaining why his client got an abortion over her husband's strenuous objections — because she had planned a trip to the beach and wanted to look good in her new bathing suit!In re Unborn Baby H., No. 84C01 8804JP185, slip opinion at 1-2 (Vigo County, Indiana Circuit Court, April 8, 1988). Also see "Woman Defies Court, Father, Aborts Child." Washington Times, April 15, 1988.
Warnock, Mary ('bioethicist')
"Parents are, after all, legally permitted a choice of abortion if the fetus is shown to be severely malformed [with spina bifida, for example]. It is paradoxical that this same choice should be denied them in the case of a premature baby with similar or worse handicaps."
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'Bioethicist' Mary Warnock, quoted in Nat Hentoff. "Strange Priesthood of Bioethics." National Right to Life News, March 27, 1986, page 15.
Warren, James (Chicago Tribune)
Warren: "I also find interesting this revisionism about Senator Helms. We've sort of turned his dogmatism and bigotry into now, the iron-willed principle of a man of the right."
Charen: "What bigotry?"
Warren: "Oh, his gay-baiting, his union-bashing. His hatred of any fundings for the arts. His isolationism."
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Exchange between James Warren, Chicago Tribune Washington Bureau Chief, and Mona Charen on the August 3, 1997 edition of CNN's "Capital Gang."
Warren, Mary Ann (The Hastings Center)
"If we are to make a reasoned judgment about the moral status of fetuses, and of nonhuman animals, alien life forms, intelligent machines and other problematic entities, we must develop a criterion of moral rights that is species-neutral. That is, it will not do to make 'genetic humanity,' or mere genetic affiliation to the human species, either a necessary or a sufficient condition for the possession of full moral rights. [The criteria for personhood is] an entity that has the actual, not merely potential capacity for consciousness, complex, sophisticated perception, rationality, self-awareness and self-motivated behavior."
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Hastings Center 'Bioethicist' Mary Anne Warren. "Can the Fetus be an Organ Farm?" Hastings Center Report, October 1978.
"A fetus, even a fully developed one [i.e., newborn], is considerably less like a person than is the average mature mammal, indeed the average fish. And I think that a rational person must conclude that if the right to life of a fetus is to be based upon its resemblance to a person, then it cannot be said to have any more right to life than, let us say, a newborn puppy (which also seems to be capable of feeling pain). It follows from my argument that when an unwanted or defective infant is born into a society which cannot afford and/or is not willing to care for it, then its destruction is permissible."
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Hastings Center 'Bioethicist' Mary Anne Warren, Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine.
Washington Times
"If there's anything sadder than a battered woman, it's a battered man, and the saddest thing of all is for battered men to start whining about it."
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Washington Times editorial on the opening of a battered men's shelter in New York. Quoted in Olivia Vlahos. "Generic Male, Endangered Gender?" First Things, February 1993, pages 15 to 23.
Watson, James D. (Nobel Prize winner and Director of the Human Genome Project)
"If a child were not declared alive until three days after birth, then all parents could be allowed the choice that only a few are given under the present system. The doctor could allow the child to die if the parents so chose and save a lot of misery and suffering."
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Nobel Prize winner Dr. James D. Watson. Time Magazine, May 28, 1973, page 104. Also see "Children From the Laboratory." Prism, May 1973, page 13 [NOTE: Watson described how he gave up attending Mass at the start of World War II. "I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead" — Roger Highfield. "DNA Leaders Call Religion to Account." The Sydney Morning Herald, March 22, 2003].
"I think it's complete nonsense saying we're sacred and should not be changed ... to say we've got a perfect genome and there's some sanctity? I'd like to know where that idea comes from because it's utter silliness. If we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we do it? What's wrong with it? Who is telling us not to do it?"
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James Watson, speaking at a 1998 conference at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Hilary White. "Anti-Religion Extremist Dawkins Advocates Eugenics." LifeSite Daily News, November 21, 2006.
"If you could find the gene which determines sexuality and a woman decides she doesn't want a homosexual child, well, let her [have an abortion]. We already accept that most couples don't want a Down's Syndrome child. You would be crazy to say you wanted one, because that child has no future."
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Dr. James Watson, director of the Human Genome Project, quoted in "Universal 'Remedy.'" Humanity [New Zealand], April 1997, page 10 [NOTE: Philip Arcidi, president of the Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians, or PLAGAL, recently said that "If, as recent scientific discoveries suggest, homosexuality has a genetic basis, the day is not far off when doctors will be able to determine if a child in the womb is predisposed to be gay. At this point, it will be possible to do by legal surgery what all the homophobes throughout history have tried and failed to do — eliminate lesbians and gays once and for all" ("The Heckler's Veto." Washington Post, July 19, 1995, page A21].
"We must not fall into the absurd trap of being against everything Hitler was for. It was in no way evil for Hitler to regard mental disease as a scourge on society ... Because of Hitler's use of the term Master Race, we should not feel the need to say that we never want to use genetics to make humans more capable than they are today."
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Nobel Prize winner James D. Watson. "Genes and Politics." Journal of Molecular Medicine 1997;75:624-636. Also quoted by Riccardo Baschetti, retired medical inspector for the Italian State Railways, in a letter to the editor, British Medical Journal, October 30, 1999.
"But I would use it [genetic engineering] wherever you could improve human life. I think we should be able to try and improve people's minds. I don't see genetics as offending the gods, I don't think there are any gods up there."
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James Watson, quoted in Shaoni Bhattacharya. "Genetically Engineered Humans to Come, Say DNA Pioneers." New Scientist, April 24, 2003, at http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993659, and in "Leading DNA Scientists Admit Goal of Enhancing Humans through Genetics." LifeSite Daily News, April 29, 2003.
Watson, Richard A. (Washington University)
"500 million people is a reasonable world population figure, even for a science fiction future when solar energy is harnessed and practical techniques are developed for extracting useful elements from bedrock and sea water. ... We must remember that even in the best of circumstances, it will be extremely difficult to stabilize population and to develop the technology to establish mankind in ecologic balance with nature. Any realistic examination of man on earth today shows that he is headed for the cataclysmic disasters of famine, pestilence, and war. We can only hope that it is not too late to save the human species, even if there is a chance that it is too late to save our present civilization. But if strenuous efforts are not made now, then mankind may be lucky if even as many as 500 people survive the 20th century."
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Richard A. Watson, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Washington University, and Philip M. Smith, research administrator at the National Science Foundation (NSF). "The Limit: 500 Million." In Population: A Clash of Prophets [edited by Edward Pohlman] [New York City: Mentor Books], 1973, pages 198-199 and 201.
Watt, Kenneth E.F. (Professor at the University of California)
"If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age."
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University of California Professor Kenneth E.F. Watt, at an Earth Day rally on April 19, 1970. Quoted in Gary Benoit. "The Greatest Sham on Earth." The New American, March 26, 1990, pages 7 to 12.
Watters, Wendell W. (Canadian psychiatrist)
"[Prior to 1869], the Church had officially accepted the theory of delayed animation for 500 years. ... Abortion before ensoulment was tolerated by the Catholic Church."
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Canadian psychiatrist Wendell W. Watters. Compulsory Pregnancy: The Truth About Abortion. Toronto: McLelland & Steward, 1976, page 90.
"In Judaism and Christianity, the motive was, and still is, raw demographic aggression, an attempt to subdue the earth by turning the human uterus into a baby assembly line. The success of this strategy is indicated by the fact that Christianity is now the largest religious group on earth. It is "Christian" nations that are responsible for most of the ecological decay affecting our global village. ... While the pro-choice position not only gives women the right to make this decision, it encourages her to deal with the emotional pain of "owning" the decision as her own; and it is certainly true that many younger women "grow-up" in the course of working through the ambivalence in the decision-making process.
"Many women in the anti-choice camp, on the other hand, sense the pain that goes with this working through process and are frightened. They do not want to be faced with this kind of adult challenge and prefer to have a law that prevents them from ever being in that position." [NOTE: Really? We pro-lifers always thought it was because they respected human life!] "Nonetheless, anti-choice women do have abortions, but they do so in a "the devil made me do it" mode, refusing to take personal responsibility for the decision and often returning to the picket line in front of the hospital where they had the abortion." [NOTE: Anyone stupid enough to believe this nonsense is truly hopeless].
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Wendell W. Watters. "Rites of Compulsory Motherhood: How Sexism and Ambivalence Affect Reproductive Choice." Humanist in Canada, Autumn 1989, pages 6 to 9.
Wattleton, Faye (former President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA))
"I believe Margaret Sanger would have been proud of us today if she had seen the directions that we have most recently in this organization taken. ... First, as you know, as we celebrate the 100th birthday of Margaret Sanger, our outrageous and our courageous leader, we will probably find a number of areas in which we may want to find more about Margaret Sanger than we thought we wanted to know ... we should be very proud of what we are and what our mission is. It is a very grand mission ... abortion is only the tip of the iceberg."
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Excerpt from the transcript of the address given by Faye Wattleton, former President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), at a luncheon in St. Louis, Missouri, on February 5, 1979.
"The chances are we all have homosexual or lesbian relatives, friends, or acquaintances. ... The most positive approach to this subject is to remember that same-sex relationships may be equal to heterosexual relationships in their capacity for loving and caring.
"Girls and boys need especially to be reassured that sexual play with a friend of one's own gender is fairly common and that it is not an indication of future, adult homosexuality.
"Most sex educators would tell kids that oral sex is a form of sexual expression which many people find pleasurable and many others find unthinkable. Sexual behavior that is mutually agreed upon and harmful to neither partner is not considered a perversion.
"Masturbation is a natural and harmless expression of sexuality ... Even many church groups have modified their stand, seeing it more as a healthy, normal release of sexual tension than as the sinful, unnatural act it was once considered to be.
"Our advice, the first time you see a small child fondling himself, is to take this teachable moment and try to get across the message that masturbating is something practically everyone does because it feels good, that there's nothing wrong with it, that it's okay with you (if it is), but that it is something to be done in private.
"Adolescent boys and girls would both welcome reassurance from their parents — people whose values they trust — that solitary sexual activity is okay. They would be even more relieved to hear that it actually has undeniable benefits.
"Many boys, at some point in their development, make it a group event with one or more [other] boys."
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Faye Wattleton, former president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). How to Talk with Your Child About Sexuality [Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.], 1986. A detailed review of this book may be obtained from Jim Sedlak, Director, Stop Planned Parenthood (STOPP), Post Office Box 8, LaGrangeville, New York 12540.
"Discussing contraception — which is vitally important, we stress again — does not mean and is seldom interpreted by teenagers to mean that you have given permission for them to have intercourse."
"[You must say] "We hope very much that you won't get sexually involved until you're mature enough to handle it, but if you ever decide to, please use one of the kinds of birth control we told you about." Once this has been said, teenagers know they need not be afraid that buying or using contraceptives is going to bring on parental wrath."
"If parents do not want their children to become pregnant or to make someone pregnant while they are teenagers, they must give them information about contraception and, by so doing, give them permission to use it when they have sex."
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Faye Wattleton, former president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). How to Talk with Your Child About Sexuality [Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.], 1986. A detailed review of this book may be obtained from Jim Sedlak, Director, Stop Planned Parenthood (STOPP), Post Office Box 8, LaGrangeville, New York 12540.
"This [Webster] decision leaves abortion to the vagaries of our residents."
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Faye Wattleton, former President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), after the July 1989 Webster decision of the United States Supreme Court. Quoted in "Ray Kerrison." New York Post, July 4, 1989.
"We [PPFA] are not going to be an organization promoting celibacy or chastity."
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Faye Wattleton, former President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). Quoted in the Los Angeles Times, October 17, 1986, Part V, page 1. Also quoted in Judie Brown. "The Wattleton-Sanger Tradition: Deception." ALL About Issues, May 1988, pages 18 and 19.
"We need to remove the abortion issue forever from the legislative arena. We need a universal recognition that our civil liberties are off-limits to partisan debate! ...
"Step by horrifying step, our government is commandeering control of our bodies, our reproduction, our most private choices. Unless we act now, this dangerous trend won't stop at abortion. It won't even stop at eliminating contraception. Compulsory pregnancy, forced caesareans, surveillance and detention of pregnant women — these are the chilling, logical outcome of laws that reduce women to instruments of the state."
"If you think I'm being an alarmist, look at the history of Romania under Nicolae Ceaucescu. To boost the birthrate, the dictator banned contraception and abortion. Over time, birthrates were virtually unchanged — but the maternal death rate skyrocketed. Nearly 1,000 Romanian women died each year from illegal abortions — and those are just the ones who went to hospitals. Countless others, terrified of the law, chose to die at home. Today, in Bucharest alone, up to 30,000 women await hospital treatment for abortion complications. And 40,000 babies have been left orphaned or abandoned. This is the grisly legacy of a state that tried to control its citizens' reproduction."
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Faye Wattleton, former President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). "Reproductive Rights Are Fundamental Rights." The Humanist, January/February 1991, page 21 [NOTE: Wattleton's figure of 1,000 Romanian women dying of illegal abortions is simply an unsupported echo of the figure used in the United States — and, like the U.S. number, it is a barefaced lie. Wattleton also asserted in the above statement that one-fifth of all Bucharest women of childbearing age are awaiting care for botched abortions at any given time. Only the blindest pro-abortionist would believe such nonsense. Wattleton and others tried their best to paint Ceaucescu as "typical of the anti-choice mindset." What they conveniently failed to mention, of course, was that the Romanian government did not ban abortion and birth control because it had any particular respect for the sanctity of life, but because it viewed life as a 'commodity' to be 'accumulated for the greater good of the State'].
"There are many sperm cells in the [seminal] fluid. If one of them meets an egg cell inside the mother, new life can begin to grow ... If one of your friends is pregnant, ask her to let your child 'feel the baby move.' ... A baby grows in a special place inside the mother, called the uterus — not in her stomach. In nine months it is born."
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Faye Wattleton, former President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). How to Talk with Your Child About Sexuality [Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.], 1986. A detailed review of this book may be obtained from Jim Sedlak, Director, Stop Planned Parenthood (STOPP), Post Office Box 8, LaGrangeville, New York 12540 [NOTE: Note that Wattleton admits that the preborn child is alive in this quote].
"Such self-righteous arrogance is unfortunate in a pluralistic society that does not have a (national) religion. We cannot let ont religion dictate the policies of a community. I think it is unfortunate the Vatican has reached its long arms to Seattle to try to impose its will on the United Way."
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Faye Wattleton, former President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), quoted in the Seattle Post, November 22, 1988. This was in response to Catholics successfully pressuring the Seattle United Way (UW) into suspending funding for Planned Parenthood in Seattle.
"There are many sperm cells in the [seminal] fluid. If one of them meets an egg cell inside the mother, new life can begin to grow ... If one of your friends is pregnant, ask her to let your child 'feel the baby move.' ... A baby grows in a special place inside the mother, called the uterus — not in her stomach. In nine months it is born."
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Faye Wattleton, former president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). How to Talk with Your Child About Sexuality [Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.], 1986. A detailed review of this book may be obtained from Jim Sedlak, Director, Stop Planned Parenthood (STOPP), Post Office Box 8, LaGrangeville, New York 12540.
"Too many of us are focused upon stopping teenage sexual activity rather than stopping teenage pregnancy ... Sexuality education must be a fundamental part of the school curricula from kindergarten through twelfth grade in every school district in the country ... Easier access to contraception must be another priority — access without any barriers. We must establish many more school-based health clinics that provide contraceptives as part of general health care."
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Faye Wattleton, former President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). "Reproductive Rights for a More Humane World." The Humanist, July/August 1986 page 7.
"No one can really interpret what Sanger meant because she's dead."
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Faye Wattleton, former President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). Quoted in the New York City Tribune, February 23, 1988, page 1. Also quoted in Judie Brown. "The Wattleton-Sanger Tradition: Deception." ALL About Issues, May 1988, pages 18 and 19.
"The chances are we all have homosexual or lesbian relatives, friends, or acquaintances ... The most positive approach to this subject is to remember that same-sex relationships may be equal to heterosexual relationships in their capacity for loving and caring.
"Girls and boys need especially to be reassured that sexual play with a friend of one's own gender is fairly common and that it is not an indication of future, adult homosexuality.
"Most sex educators would tell kids that oral sex is a form of sexual expression which many people find pleasurable and many others find unthinkable. Sexual behavior that is mutually agreed upon and harmful to neither partner is not considered a perversion."
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Faye Wattleton, former president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). How to Talk with Your Child About Sexuality [Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.], 1986. A detailed review of this book may be obtained from Jim Sedlak, Director, Stop Planned Parenthood (STOPP), Post Office Box 8, LaGrangeville, New York 12540.
"My daughter is ten, and like other ten-year olds, she has got the world on a string. My solace in confronting her sexual maturation is the knowledge that she attends an all-girl school, and that's exactly where I intend to keep her for as long as I can."
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Faye Wattleton, former President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). "Reproductive Rights For a More Humane World." The Humanist, July/August 1986, page 6.
"Family Planning Associates [the 180 United States Planned Parenthood affiliates] and other nongovernmental associations should not use the absence of law or the existence of an unfavorable law as an excuse for inaction; action outside the law, or even in violation of it, is part of the process of stimulating change."
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International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). The Human Right to Family Planning (1984), signed by Faye Wattleton, former President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA).
"[Abortion should be provided] for all of those [reasons]. And a few more ... yes, it kills a fetus, but it is the woman's body, and therefore ultimately her choice. ... Abortion is killing, but the bottom line is that if you can't control your reproduction, you're not likely to be controlling anything else."
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Fate Wattleton, former President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), quoted in "Late-Term Abortion: Speaking Frankly." Ms. Magazine, May/June 1997, pages 67 to 71.
"... women who are forced to have children against their will are among the most oppressed ... We have very little sexuality education to help our young people understand their sexuality during their developmental years ... They [the schools] should be teaching comprehensive sexuality education from kindergarten through twelfth grade. ... our parents didn't talk with us. Parents don't quite know how to approach the subject, because very often we wait until our kids are adolescents. ... I don't think they have adequate access or information" [to "reproductive health services," i.e., birth control and abortion] ... I haven't seen real sexuality education yet [NOTE: This is a frightening statement! What would "real" sexuality education be to a person like Faye Wattleton?]
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Faye Wattleton, former president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), quoted in NEA Today ["A Newspaper for Members of the National Education Association"], March 1991, page 9 [emphasis in the original].
Way, Fran (Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA))
"It is not appropriate to have the [fetal] models in the lobby because it would be forcing an issue on women which is not the purpose of Planned Parenthood. If the patient wanted to see an illustration, the counselor would show it to her."
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Fran Way, director of patient services for the Milwaukee offices of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), as reported in the May 9, 1992 Racine Journal Times and "PP Refuses to Display Models." National STOPP News, May, 1992, page 3 [NOTE: The Racine Chapter of Wisconsin Right to Life offered to allow Planned Parenthood free use of a set of fetal models. The $550 models are frequently used by doctors, medical schools and pro-life groups to explain fetal development. Racine RTL put only on condition on its offer — the models have to be displayed in PP's lobby. PP refused the offer].
WBNS-TV
"We found sexual discrimination in the most unlikely of places. Church. For many, the Church is the center of their lives. But for some women of the Catholic faith, their foundation is being rocked ... rocked by doctrine that dictates their very lives."
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Text of a May 1996 advertisement by WBNS-TV in The Columbus Dispatch, showing a woman's hands draped with Rosary beads. Described in Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. 1996 Report on Anti-Catholicism, available on-line at the Catholic League's Web site here.
We Are Church Movement (dissenting group)
The time of the church as an agenda-setter is gone. The hierarchy, with its focus on abortion and sexuality — things they know nothing about — they aren't in touch. To survive, the message of the church has to be positive. They have to start listening to people and paying attention to normal life. Otherwise, there will be other religions .... It's hard to go to church. As a young person, you don't want to be in an old people's home. And that's what the church today is. Older fat priests led by a big Catholic dictator.
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Tobias Raschke of Germany's We Are Church Movement, quoted in Ruth Riddick. "Setting Tomorrow's Agenda." Conscience (newsletter of 'Catholics' for a Free Choice), Summer 2002 [Volume XXIII, Number 2], pages 22 to 25.
Weatherley, Richard
"The most common strategy adopted to avoid opposition [to school-based clinics] was to maintain a low profile — generally by keeping programs out of sight, by avoiding potentially controversial preventive services, by staying clear of abortion services, by relying on word of mouth for recruitment and by giving names to programs that obscured their functions (Cyesis, Teen Awareness, Access, Services to Young Parents, Healthworks, and Continuing Education to Young Families are some examples) ... Program advocates and service providers are more or less obligated to exaggerate the potential benefits of services in order to secure political and material support. One popular ploy revealed an incredible array of problems that allegedly would be solved by the provision of services for pregnant teenagers and adolescent parents. In claims reminiscent of the 19th Century, it was argued that teenage pregnancy services would combat child abuse, infant mortality, mental retardation, birth defects, drug abuse, and welfare dependency [emphasis added]."
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Richard Weatherley, et.al. "Comprehensive Programs for Pregnant Teenagers and Teenage Parents: How Successful Have They Been?" Alan Guttmacher Institute, Family Planning Perspectives, March/April 1986, page 76.
Wechsler, Nancy F.
"The basic human [abortion] right necessarily involved would be destroyed if a husband could insist that the child be born ... It is impossible to give him [the husband] a veto over his wife's abortion, if her constitutional rights respecting childbirth are to be effective, and such power is also utterly inconsistent with our emerging concepts of fundamental women's rights in general."
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Nancy F. Wechsler. "Consent — Parents, Husbands — And on Behalf of Incompetents." Sarah Lewit (Editor). Abortion Techniques and Services: Proceedings of the Conference, New York, N.Y., June 3-5, 1971. Amsterdam: Excerpta Medica, 1972.
Weddington, Sarah
"It's a privilege to meet you. If it hadn't been for you, my job ten years later would have been much more difficult."
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Sarah Weddington, lead plaintiff's attorney in Roe v. Wade, to Sherri Finkbine, who aborted her baby, allegedly deformed by Thalidomide, in Sweden before abortion was legal in this country. Quoted in Patricia Myers. "Shades of Gray." Phoenix Magazine, October 1989, pages 40 to 45.
Weeks, John R. (International Population Center, San Diego State University)
"Disincentives may also be employed to reduce fertility. Children may be taxed after the second one (in direct opposition to the pronatalist policy in the United States of permitting tax deductions for each child), and each successive child might result in higher "user fees" for maternity care, educational services, and other public resources. Indeed, subsequent children might result in a loss of specific benefits for a family, especially in a socialist state (such as China) where many resources are distributed through the government. Similarly, at the community level there may be punishments (such as less electricity or oil available, or higher community tax rates) if a community does not meet a pre-established birth quota. As was true with incentives, these disincentives are most effectively implemented when combined with measures of indirect pressure on couples to use contraception or to abort a birth if it might cause the community to exceed its quota."
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John R. Weeks, Professor of Sociology and Director of the International Population Center at San Diego State University). "How to Influence Fertility: The Experience So Far." Negative Population Growth Forum, September 1990, pages 3 and 4.
Weinberg, Steven (Nobel Prize winner)
"Even here in America we have religious zealots who try to corrupt the teaching of biological and astronomic science in public schools, who try to ban research on therapeutic cloning, who try to prevent building astronomical observatories on the top of mountains that some people think are sacred, and who in extreme cases, bomb abortion clinics."
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Steven Weinberg, winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in physics and currently a theoretical physicist at the University of Texas, in his May 27, 2002 commencement speech to graduating Bates College students. "Nobel Laureate Lumps Abortuary Bombers with Therapeutic Cloning Opponents." LifeSite Daily News at http://www.lifesite.net, May 29, 2002.
Weisberg, Jacob (Newsweek Magazine)
"Well, it may seem the sheerest act of heresy to say so, but far from being pathologically dishonest, Bill Clinton has been more faithful to his word than any other chief executive in recent memory. He may have skirted the truth about the draft, Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, and so on. But Clinton has kept his contract with voters. On policy issues, he has done almost exactly what he said he was going to do, despite setbacks and enormous obstacles. And by so doing, he has made himself an excellent President."
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Former Newsweek Magazine reporter Jacob Weisberg in New York Magazine, September 5, 1994 issue.
"Well, it may seem the sheerest act of heresy to say so, but far from being pathologically dishonest, Bill Clinton has been more faithful to his word than any other chief executive in recent memory. He may have skirted the truth about the draft, Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, and so on. But Clinton has kept his contract with voters. On policy issues, he has done almost exactly what he said he was going to do, despite setbacks and enormous obstacles. And by so doing, he has made himself an excellent President."
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Former Newsweek Magazine reporter Jacob Weisberg in New York Magazine, September 5, 1993.
Weissinger, Morris (Editor-in-Chief of Genre, a homosexual magazine)
"Queers love sex — and lots of it. Some of us have enjoyed more sex in this lifetime than the combined population of an average Midwestern town. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Sex is good. Enjoying sex, love, intimacy, passion and sodomy with another man is not some wretched shame. It's a gift we get free with ["gay"] membership. And since we don't generally worry about getting pregnant (only dying), sex is to us what sports are to straight men: Our favorite pastime."
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Morris Weissinger, editor-in-chief of Genre, an upscale magazine for homosexual men, October 1999, page 14.
Weisskopf, Michael (Washington Post)
"Corporations pay public relations firms millions of dollars to contrive the kind of grass-roots response that Falwell or Pat Robertson can galvanize in a televised sermon. Their followers are largely poor, uneducated, and easy to command."
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Washington Post reporter Michael Weisskopf, February 1, 1993 news story.
Welch, Raquel (actress)
"I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our 52 states, and the mandate we've now been given on the pro-choice abortion issue is that we have to pick up the pieces. ... in 52 states across the nation, we have to bail water now out of the boat."
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Raquel Welch, on CNN's "Larry King Live" talk show. Quoted in the National Review, March 5, 1990, page 20.
Weld, Madeline (Global Population Concerns (GPC))
"Reading Dr. Mumford's book brings to mind those saddest of words: "What might have been." The U.S. government's National Security Study Memorandum 200, carried out in 1974, analyzed the population problem and recognized the urgency of addressing it immediately. However, due to a massive, Vatican-led effort, the government's political will was dissipated and the public was confused with disinformation. The result was inaction on the population issue, and we are all paying the price as we see the grim predictions of NSSM 200 come true. Analyzing the population-denial movement without mentioning the Vatican is like analyzing the Holocaust without mentioning Germany. Yet the Vatican even now receives kid glove treatment from the media, its efforts at the suppression of information and the spread of disinformation are rarely exposed. Dr. Mumford has taken off the gloves and exposed the Vatican's ruthless agenda. One can only hope that this book is widely read, for disinformation that downplays the population problem is still rampant, and propagated by many news sources, including those of the highest reputation."
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Madeline Weld, Ph.D., President of Global Population Concerns, Ottawa, Canada, favorably commenting on Stephen Mumford's virulently anti-Catholic on-line book The Life and Death of NSSM 200: How the Destruction of Political Will Doomed a U.S. Population Policy, downloaded from http://www.iti.com/iti/kzpg/ on September 22, 1998 (no longer available). The comment is included in the document.
Wellman, Mac
"America, you got your eyes open so wide you can't see a f—ing thing. America, you're crazy if you think your f—ing, milksop, harebrained Christianity has anything whatsoever to do with Jesus H. Christ ... What the f— do I care who f—s with who? They [sic] f—ing is they [sic] own concern; and may they use it wisely, and well. Furthermore, whoever puts words in my mouth, he too f—s with me in the abstrack [sic] sense ... I mean, the handle's on your side, I always say — and if you don't want to see that, tough s—, it's your problem and none of mine. Face it, you [sic] a sleazy, lying, conniving bunch of s—heads. If you f— up, it's your fault, not mine ..."
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The character "Jesus H. Christ," from playwright Mac Wellman's "Sincerity Forever," written as a protest directed against Jesse Helm's efforts to curtail coercive taxpayer funding of pornography through the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA). Wellman dedicated this trash to "Jesse and the Wildman" [Reverend Donald Wildmon, president of the pornography-fighting American Family Association (AFA)].
Wells, H.G. (science fiction writer)
"Not only is Rome the source and center of Fascism, but it has been the seat of a Pope [Pius XII], who, as we shall show, has been an open ally of the Nazi-Fascist-Shinto Axis since his enthronement. ... Why do we not bomb Rome? Why do we allow these open and declared antagonists of democratic freedom to entertain their Shinto allies and organise a pseudo-Catholic destruction of democratic freedom?"
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H.G. Wells. Crux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church (reprinted by Prometheus Press, 1991, page 1).
Weltz, Georg August (Nazi doctor)
"The Hippocratic Oath ... is an honorable historical document, which, however, does not altogether fit present times. If it is to be applied today, the wording has to be exchanged very extensively, and in these reformulations a series of new oaths have been drawn up which have only a vague relationship to the ancient Hippocratic Oath ... a [theory of] medicine based on the principle of nil nocere [first, do no harm] is a very impoverished medicine, and we are unfortunately not in a position to carry on medicine on that simple principle today."
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Dr. Georg August Weltz, who was responsible for the Nazi "cold experiments." Quoted in The United States v. Brandt, et al. The Medical Cases, American Military Tribunal, Nuremberg. Wille in direct examination of Weltz, May 7, 1947, pages 7,131-7,134. Also quoted in Herbert Ratner, M.D. "The Slide Toward "Mercy-Killing."" Child and Family Reprint Booklet Series, 1987, page v.
West, Steve
To Whom It May Concern:
Take your lies and disrespect to the Americans that fought in World War II with the comparisons of Planned Parenthood to the SS (German Nazi's), and the KKK, and your obscene photographs out of the skies above my house and children in Huntington Beach, and SHOVE THEM UP YOUR F***ING ***ES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope that you f***ing ***hole, s***-head, mother-f***ing, sick-o liars, go straight to hell with your focus on putting women's reproductive rights back into the stone-age. Obviously your brains are either clear up your own a**, or back in the stone age as well. Anyone sick enough to show as much disrespect to the men and women of the U.S. armed forcs [sic] as you do by claiming that an abortion is the same as SS Nazi persecution is absolutely asinine. Your version of history is clearly as warped and sick as your educational backgrounds. How can you have the gall to litter the skies above my home with your obscene photos, noise and air pollution? How would you like it if I decided to put pictures of someone having their head blown off in front of your two year old child? Or better yet, pornography right on your front driveway where your kids can see some gay guy giving a blow job to another gay man? I bet you'd love that wouldn't you? Have you no shame in picking a forum, the beaches of Huntington Beach, where children under 5 go to play and have no concept or idea of what abortion is? I would prefer to teach my children when I am ready about women's rights and abortions and such, rather than have the questions forced upon me because you SICKO, BUTT-PUMPING, S***-HEAD, C***-SUCKING, LIARS, are putting pictures in the sky above my house. Our neighborhood is not the appropriate forum for your sick and twisted message. Why don't you take your f***ing stupid a** messages and shove them up your ass, then back out your ass, and shove them down your f***ing throat, the [sic] throw them up and shove them back up your buddies a** again!!!! I hope you feel that this message is rather obscene, because I do, but I hope you understand my point. I wrote you on obscene message because you bring this upon yourself, because your obscene messages have been littering my street and the air above my home with messages that are not intended for children under 5. Your tactics have little class, and no respect for the well-being of children and families that care for them. Please for the sake of residents that live in Huntington Beach, take your propaganda out of the skies, drop your lawsuit, and give yourself some decency so you can sleep at night. Until then, I hope you burn in hell."
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Typical brainless pro-abortion stupidity sent in an e-mail message to Gregg Cunningham's Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR) by Steve West on October 14, 2002, and was entitled "Drop your Lawsuit against HB [Huntingdon Beach] and your Obscene Messages" [NOTE: As any pro-life street activist knows, this is exactly what pro-aborts do when somebody dares to oppose them — like spoiled little brats, they go absolutely insane with anger and violence].
Westover, Ron
"If subjects are needed to render accurate knowledge about the workings of the human mechanism, there is an endless supply. Take the extreme elderly, the senile, use the criminally insane, rapists and murderers. They are largely useless and doomed anyway."
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San Diego University Professor Ron Westover in a letter to the Los Angeles Times. Described in the July 1985 American Spectator.
Wharton, Don
"North Carolina, the first of the forty-eight states to promote birth control officially, is going at the job in earnest ... Birth control, they say, can help to stop the infant and maternal carnage and in the end build a healthier and perhaps even a larger population ... North Carolina could not climb far toward better health and happiness without birth control for the poor ... On one occasion a health officer didn't think his county needed contraception. He was asked to check his vital statistics. When he discovered that the Negroes were accounting for 85 per cent of the births he quickly changed his mind."
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Don Wharton. "Birth Control: The Case for the State." Atlantic Monthly, October 1939, pages 463 to 467.
Whicher, Jane (American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU))
Hudson: "If a young person on the way home from school encounters an adult, and the adult gives him a piece of literature that portrays sodomy and portrays bestiality with a child 12 years old, you don't think the government has any interest whatsoever in that transaction?"
Whicher: "No, I don't."
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Attorney General's Pornography Commission Chairman Henry Hudson, posing a question to Jane Whicher of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) during the Commission's hearings. Quoted in "ACLU Wants Government to Ignore Child Porn." National Federation for Decency Journal, January 1986, page 12.
White House Conference on Hunger (WHCH)
"[We recommend] (1) mandatory abortion for any unmarried girl found to be within the first three months of pregnancy, and (2) mandatory sterilization of any such girl giving birth out of wedlock for a second time."
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1969 White House Conference on Hunger (WHCH) panel on "Pregnant and Nursing Women and Infants," headed by Planned Parenthood's Dr. Alan Guttmacher and Dr. Charles U. Lowe of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's National Institutes of Health (NIH).
White, Harry (Northeastern Illinois University professor)
"O.K., H.O.M.E. Boys. ... Exodus does not warn us to 'not covet thy neighbor's well-hung son.' It says 'wife.' It's the kind of thing heterosexuals shouldn't do. Of course the Tenth Commandment also tell [sic] us not to covet thy neighbor's 'ass.' And I know this will come as a big disappointment, but the reference is to the donkey. ... As for the New Testament: Jesus Christ (remember him?), he said all sins are forgiven. What a wimp! You certainly wouldn't want someone like that to be a member of H.O.M.E. And by the way, there is no passage where Jesus adds, 'All sins are forgiven, except for homosexuality.' And guys, why didn't he ever marry? Or St. Paul for that matter. Could it be ...? Who knows? Who cares?...
"Of course we do know, 'cause the Good Book tells us so, that David (remember him, the king from whose loins the Messiah is supposed to be descended), apparently utilized his God-given loins in more ways than one. For the Bible tells us, David loved Jonathon with a love surpassing that of a woman. Have you ever seen Michelangelo's statue of David? If David looked anything like that, Jonathon probably had a surpassingly great time being loved by the king-to-be. And you do know about Michelangelo, whom the Pope told, 'Go paint me a ceiling,' well, he was a Christian, a painter, and a you-know-what. How 'bout: 'Down with David, Jesus, Queers and the Sistine Chapel?'
"One of the consequences of politically correct speech is that hate groups like H.O.M.E. are allowed on campus (which they shouldn't be!) because they offer 'polite' information as a way of making their hateful agenda appear respectable. ...
"There has to be something more appropriate that we, as members of the Northeastern community, can say in response to H.O.M.E.'s message. Let me offer these words which I believe to be more to the point. What H.O.M.E. says is s***!
"And they should all go f*** themselves — and I hope it hurts when they do and that they catch a disease and puke all over themselves and die, horribly, somewhere near Clark and Diversey [in Chicago] where four off-duty male nurses, all clad in black leather, remove their bodies to a nearby hospital where they are cleansed, disinfected, dressed in women's clothing and dumped into a sewer."
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Excerpts from the raving letter to the October 11, 2005 issue of the Northeastern Illinois University Independent by Harry White, Professor of English at NEIU. Matt C. Abbott. "Professor Wishes Death for Two Conservatives." Christian Times Today, October 20, 2005 [NOTE: White's hate-filled letter was in response to two pro-family activists — retired public school teacher John McCartney and social critic Wayne Lela — who went to Northeastern Illinois University to pass out literature about their organization H.O.M.E., which opposes special rights for homosexuals].
White, Jack E. (Time Magazine)
"These days Washington seems to be filled with white men who make black people uneasy, like Newt the slasher, Bill the waffler, and Jesse the crank — Helms, that is, not Jackson. But the scariest of all the hobgoblins may well be a fellow African American, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. In the four years since George Bush chose him to fill the 'black seat' vacated by Thurgood Marshall, Thomas has emerged as the high court's most aggressive advocate of rolling back the gains Marshall fought so hard for. The maddening irony is that Thomas owes his seat to precisely the kind of racial preference he goes to such lengths to excoriate."
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Time Magazine National Correspondent Jack E. White in a June 26, 1995 column "Uncle Tom Justice."
"Her [White House lawyer Cheryl Mills] rhetoric wasn't fancy, but it was on target. The G.O.P. is a party, after all, that owes its post-Barry Goldwater resurgence to opposition to civil rights. And while its leaders from time to time proclaim their belief in racial justice, their pledges have been mostly lip service. They're too genteel for a sheet-wearing bigot like David Duke but all too willing to embrace bigotry if it's dressed in a suit and tie. Mills, 33, is just the sort of hard-nosed advocate to drag such hypocrisy to the surface."
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Time Magazine national correspondent Jack E. White, February 1, 1999 "Dividing Line" column.
"The torching of black churches throughout the South punctuates the ugly rhetoric of the Buchanan campaign. ... In fact, all the conservative Republicans, from Newt Gingrich to Pete Wilson, who have sought political advantage by exploiting white resentment should come and stand in the charred ruins of the New Liberty Baptist Church in Tyler [Alabama] ... and wonder if their coded phrases encouraged the arsonists. Over the past 18 months, while Republicans fulminated about welfare and affirmative action, more than 20 churches in Alabama and six other Southern and Border states have been torched. ... there is already enough evidence to indict the cynical conservatives who build their political careers, George Wallace-style, on a foundation of race-baiting. They may not start fires, but they fan the flames."
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Time Magazine national correspondent Jack E. White, March 18, 1996 issue.
"Let's face it: To most African Americans Newt Gingrich is one scary white man. ... One can only hope Gingrich was sincere in his speech to Congress last week. ... That could mean Gingrich is serious about shedding his party's whites-only image. If so, blacks ought to meet him halfway — if only to temper the wilder impulses of one very scary white man."
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Time Magazine National Correspondent Jack E. White, January 16, 1995.
White, Jerry (founder of the Cryonics Society)
"I was envisioning these big silos just full of liquid nitrogen, the liquid nitrogen generators busy 24 hours a day just spewing stuff in there, and you could see thousands of patients in there, see them bobbing around."
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Jerry White, founder of the Cryonics Society, describing his vision of converting large structures (say, abandoned Titan missile silos) that could be filled with liquid nitrogen and "suspension members" (i.e., frozen heads) that would be revived at some future date. Quoted in Katherine Bishop, New York Times News Service. "Miss the Cryonics Society Dinner? Try Again in a Few More Centuries." The Oregonian, January 22, 1989, page E1.
White, Lynn
"More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecologic crisis until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one. ... We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man."
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Environmental Handbook contributor Lynn White, Jr. Quoted in Gary Benoit. "The Greatest Sham on Earth." The New American, March 26, 1990, pages 7 to 12.
White, Nina (Time Magazine)
"Her [White House lawyer Cheryl Mills] rhetoric wasn't fancy, but it was on target. The G.O.P. is a party, after all, that owes its post-Barry Goldwater resurgence to opposition to civil rights. And while its leaders from time to time proclaim their belief in racial justice, their pledges have been mostly lip service. They're too genteel for a sheet-wearing bigot like David Duke but all too willing to embrace bigotry if it's dressed in a suit and tie. Mills, 33, is just the sort of hard-nosed advocate to drag such hypocrisy to the surface."
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Time Magazine national correspondent Jack E. White, February 1, 1999 "Dividing Line" column.
Whitehouse, Beckworth (abortionist)
"Within recent years I have been rather impressed with the attitude of mind of the woman who has practiced contraception and who has failed to attain her object. Such a woman instinctively seems to feel that she has the right to demand the termination of an unwanted pregnancy. The criminal aspect of the matter does not appear to enter her mind in the least."
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Beckworth Whitehouse. "A Paper on the Indications for the Induction of Abortion." British Medical Journal, August 20, 1932, pages 337 to 340.
Whitten, Nina (abortion mill secretary)
"I was trained by a professional marketing director in how to sell abortions over the telephone. He took every one of our receptionists, nurses, and anyone else who would deal with people over the phone through an extensive training period. The object was, when the girl called, to hook the sale so that she wouldn't get an abortion somewhere else, or adopt out her baby, or change her mind. We were doing it for the money."
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Nina Whitten, chief secretary at a Dallas abortion clinic under abortionist Curtis Boyd, quoted in Carol Everett [reformed abortionist]. "A Walk Through an Abortion Clinic." ALL About Issues magazine, August-September 1991, page 117, and in David Kuperlain and Mark Masters. "Pro-Choice 1990: Skeletons in the Closet." New Dimensions Magazine, October 1990.
Whittington, H.G.
"The [abortion] counselor must help the applicant [for abortion] face a painful existential dilemma: whether to kill one nascent human being in order to enhance the quality of life of another person ... Society legalizes abortion to enhance the quality of human life."
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H.G. Whittington, M.D. "Role of the Counselor in Abortion." Sarah Lewit (Editor). Abortion Techniques and Services: Proceedings of the Conference, New York, N.Y., June 3-5, 1971 [Amsterdam: Excerpta Medica], 1972 [NOTE: Just as the Nazis exterminated the Jews to enhance their 'quality of human life' and Lebensraum].
Wichorek, Martha
"I am not stressed, oppressed or depressed. I don't have Alzheimer's and am not terminally ill. I'm 82 year old and I want to die."
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Statement of Martha Wichorek, before Kevorkian apprentice Georges Reding helped her die on December 3, 1997. Detroit Free Press, December 4, 1997.
Wilkie, Curtis (Boston Globe)
"Bush, the exponent of a 'kinder, gentler' approach to government at the 1988 convention, was presented with a 1992 platform loaded with puritanical, punitive language that not only forbade abortions but attacked public television, gun control, homosexual rights, birth control clinics and the distribution of clean needles for drug users."
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Boston Globe reporter Curtis Wilkie, August 18, 1992 news story.
Willhoite, Michael (author of Daddy's Roommate)
""The crazy Christers are going to love this one." If the religious right wing was upset about Daddy's Roommate, Michael Willhoite's ground-breaking children's book about a boy living with his gay father and the father's lover, Willhoite expects them to go ballistic when he completes work on the sequel, Daddy's Wedding. He already refers to himself and colleague Leslea Newman, who created the equally controversial Heather Has Two Mommies, as the "Antichrist Twins," raking an almost perverse satisfaction in the firestorm his book has caused. "We may not be able to change their minds, the Helmses and Buchanans, but at least we can take a shot at changing their children's minds.""
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Brian Caffall. "Willhoite's Hollywood." PGN [Philadelphia Gay News], April 7-13, 1995.
Williams, Armstrong
"[Martin Luther] King knew of the continuing legacy of xenophobia and ignorance that led to the enslavement of Africans simply because they were labeled 'infidels' by the Catholic Church."
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Columnist Armstrong Williams, January 17, 1997. Described in Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. 1997 Report on Anti-Catholicism, available on-line at the Catholic League's Web site here.
Williams, Christine (Washington Post)
"The reporters [at Capital News] work for a shining institution, basically the last uncorrupted institution you can find. Hospitals are corrupt. Judges are corrupt. Everybody in the world is corrupt. But our newspapers are essentially a monument to idealism."
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Former Washington Post editor Christian Williams, Executive Producer of ABC's short-lived series "Capital News," as quoted in the April 9, 1990 Newark Star-Ledger.
Williams, John
"The Virgin Mary is never depicted as smiling because she never had sex."
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Statement of John Williams of WCCO Radio, Minneapolis, Minnesota, on December 7, 1994, on the station's evening program (the eve of the Catholic Feast of the Immaculate Conception). Described in Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. 1994 Report on Anti-Catholicism, available on-line at the Catholic League's Web site here.
Williams, Juan (Washington Post)
"What Helms has done is taken the words 'North Carolina values' — a beautiful phrase that evokes the small-town, good-hearted sense of place that one feels when one travels the state — and redefined them as the values belonging to a certain group of North Carolinians, mostly white, mostly male, mostly unhappy with the changes of the last 30 years. To Helms and his supporters, 'North Carolina values' seems to translate into a status quo view of the world in which blacks, women, and poor people know their stations in society."
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Reporter Juan Williams in The Washington Post Magazine, October 28, 1990.
"Now Janet Reno's thing is that she doesn't know many people in this town. I don't think she's done much to socialize, to befriend people, to build a constituency, even with the Clintons. You know, I heard Donna Shalala say the other day she [Reno] now has Abe Lincoln status. People just assume she's honest, honest Janet Reno."
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Washington Post writer Juan Williams on "Fox News Sunday," September 5, 1999.
"My concern with this guy, Weston, is he's a guy talking up this business about the evils of big government and he's a nut case, but this is his rant and I wonder if, you know, in some way the Republicans in this town haven't gone too far with this kind of logic."
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FNC analyst and Washington Post reporter Juan Williams on the Capitol Hill shooting, July 26, 1998 "Fox News Sunday."
"The most shameful act of '96 was welfare reform. ... welfare reform became a political football in '96, an easy way to kick around the poor and especially poor children and immigrants, even legal immigrants. Bill Clinton thought the GOP had a hot issue, so he closed his eyes and signed a bill that punishes children and people who want to work, but can't find a job in a tough market for entry level employment. This was a criminal act, further dividing us as haves and have nots. It was shameful."
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Washington Post reporter Juan Williams on CNN's "Capital Gang," December 29, 1996.
Williams, Robert H.
"Planning to prevent over-population of the earth must include the practice of euthanasia, either negative or positive ... Therefore, since we must restrict the rate of population increase, we should also be giving careful consideration to the quality as well as the quantity of people generated. ... We doubtless will not get support from all religious groups and it would be best not to force these and other disagreeing groups to conform unless non-conformity would affect society or significant segments of it too adversely.
"It seems unwise to attempt to bring about major changes permitting positive euthanasia until we have made major progress in changing laws and policies pertaining to negative euthanasia."
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Robert H. Williams, M.D. "Numbers, Types and Duration of Human Lives." Northwest Medicine, July 1970, pages 493 to 496.
"The fetus has not been shown to be nearer to the human being than is the unborn ape. Even the full-term infant must undergo many changes before attaining full status of humanity. Only near the end of the first year of age does a child demonstrate intellectual development, speaking ability, and other attributes that differentiate him significantly from other species."
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Dr. Robert H. Williams, Washington State Medical School. "Our Role in the Generation, Modification, and Termination of Life." JAMA, August 11, 1969, pages 914 to 917.
"Oh, for more Quality and less Quantity in Generation
Oh, for less Suff'ring and more Wisdom in Termination."
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"My Life Prayer." Robert H. Williams, M.D. "Numbers, Types and Duration of Human Lives." Northwest Medicine, July 1970, pages 493 to 496.
Williamson, Lisa ("Sister Souljah")
"If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people? ... If your white great-great-grandfather killed my great-great-grandfather, and your white great-grandfather sold my great-grandfather, and your white grandfather raped my grandmother, and your father stole, cheated, lied, and robbed my father, what kind of fool would I have to be to say 'Come, my friend' to the white daughter and son?"
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"Sister Souljah" (Lisa Williamson), quoted in "Under the Rainbow: Jesse Jackson Shelters a Repulsive Bully." World Magazine, July 4, 1992, page 14. Also quoted in "Quotes," World Magazine, June 20, 1992, page 5.
Wilson, A.N.
"His [Pope John Paul II's] hatred of the intellect would appear to know no bounds. Not since the persecution of the modernists in the time of Pius X has the Western Church known such a virulent Inquisition. Any professor of theology who ventures to question the Pope's views has been ruthlessly deprived of his license to teach. Hans Kng, arguably the most distinguished theologian in the world, is only one of hundreds of academics whom the pope has muzzled. ... the Pope did not interest himself in the truth. If he were an illiterate peasant, this would be a pardonable vice. In an extremely intelligent former university professor, it is sinister. Since he is manifestly intelligent, we must conclude that he knows what he is doing. ... But as he flies about the world, blessing the sick, kissing babies, and addressing the crowds in their own language, it must give him a very odd feeling to think that so many people accept his outrageous views and claims."
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A.N. Wilson. "Heroes & Villains." The Independent Magazine. April 14, 1990, page 54.
Wilson, Edward O.
"If all humanity disappeared, the rest of life would benefit enormously. ... If the ants were all to disappear, the results would be close to catastrophic. But if humans disappeared, the forests would grow back, the whole earth would green up, the ocean would teem, and so on."
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American sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson on "From Naked Ape to Superspecies," an eight-part radio series on Canada's CBC Radio One, hosted by David Suzuki. Quoted by Terence Corcoran. "David Suzuki's Gloomy World of Nothingness." National Post, April 8, 1999, and on LifeSite News Special Report, December 15, 1999.
Wilson, Father George, S.J.
"Dung. Female genitalia. The Virgin Mary. Each of these images, all by itself, can evoke powerful movements in the spirits of American Catholics. We may not be used to graphic presentations of labia; some may be disturbed by them, but that does not make them obscene ... A woman's genital organs play an important role in the transmission of that same incredible gift. Why not ponder the mystery of life and vitality and procreation represented in the rich mystery of Mary, the mystery of our ground in the fertility of this lovely earth, instead of construing the work as "disgusting"?"
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Father George Wilson, S.J., defending Chris Ofili's "Virgin Mary," which consisted of a painting of Our Lady smeared with excrement. National Catholic Reporter, December 10, 1999.
Wilson, Joseph (former United States ambassador to Iraq)
"Neo-conservatives and religious conservatives have hijacked this administration, and I consider myself on a personal mission to destroy both."
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Former United States ambassador to Iraq Joseph Wilson, quoted in a column by Helle Dale in the October 1, 2003 issue of the Washington Times, and in "Quote of the Week." Human Events, Week of October 6, 2003, page 1.
Wilson, Marilyn (Canadian Abortion Rights Action League (CARAL))
"[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."
Wise, Steven (Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF))
"I don't see a difference between a chimpanzee and my 4½-year-old son. ... Certain species are capable of complex emotions, can communicate using language, and have a sense of self, all characteristics that once defined humanity. Chimps have 98.7 percent of DNA in common with humans. Both my son Christopher and your average adult chimpanzee obviously meet any minimum rational standard for entitlement to basic legal rights. ... There's 60 million people out there who tell me their dog is like Einstein, but as far as work done to figure out what dogs think about, there's hardly any. The early work I did in the 1980s, when I'd go into a courtroom and make an argument on behalf of a dog, people would just start laughing. ... You have an anencephalic child born with no brain and we give that child a whole panoply of rights, and you have animals like [chimpanzee] Alex who have complex and bright minds and they're treated like chairs."
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Steven Wise, president of the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) from 1984 to 1994, a longtime animal rights lawyer from Needham, Massachusetts, and author of the book Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights. Quoted in "Beastly Behavior?: A Law Professor Says It's Time to Extend Basic Rights to the Animal Kingdom." Washington Post, June 5, 2002, page C01 [Jane Goodall, the world's best-known primate researcher, calls Wise's first book Rattling the Cage "the animals' Magna Carta, Declaration of Independence and Universal Declaration of Rights all in one." In one public session, in answer to the question "Should an adult chicken have more rights than a human embryo?," Wise said "I haven't studied chickens, but if the chicken has more appreciation for life than the human embryo, then yes, the chicken should have more rights"].
Wojnarowicz, David (homosexual activist)
"At least in my ungoverned imagination I can f— somebody without a rubber or I can, in the privacy of my own skull, douse [Senator] Helms with a bucket of gasoline and set his putrid ass on fire or throw [Congressman] William Dannemeyer off the Empire State Building ... [Cardinal John O'Connor] is the world's most active liar about condoms and safer-sex. ... This fat cannibal from that house of walking swastikas up on Fifth Avenue should lose his church tax-exempt status and pay retroactive taxes from the last couple centuries. Shut down our clinics and will shut down your church."
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Homosexual activist David Wojnarowicz, in an art catalog funded by tax dollars provided by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Quoted in Congressman Dana Rorahbacher. "Congress Continues Funding Pornographic, Anti-Christian 'Art' With Tax Dollars." American Family Association Journal, January 1990, page 20.
Women and Revolution (Communist propaganda sheet)
"According to chief druid Karol Wojtyla, procreation is the only legitimate function of sex. The Church staunchly defends the family because it is a fundamental pillar of class society ... Church and state out of the bedrooms! For the full separation of church and state! The revolutionary democrat Garibaldi correctly stated that "the Vatican is the cancer of Italy ... Down with the Concordat! Church out of the schools! Expropriate the Vatican and all its assets! Abolish "conscientious objection [for doctors who do not want to do abortions]!" Those who would practice medicine cannot also declare themselves "objectors!""
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"Vatican Leads Onslaught Against Abortion Rights." Women and Revolution, Summer/Autumn 1992, pages 19 to 21 [NOTE: It seems that the same people who would blow a major blood vessel if anyone criticized them for being intolerant or judgmental see no problem at all with launching vitriolic tirades against Catholics that are bigoted and judgmental by any yardstick].
Women-Church Convergence (WCC, 'Catholic' New Age group)
"As women from the Roman Catholic tradition, we have a special expertise in analyzing and critiquing the language in which the Vatican presents — sometimes cloaks — it ideas and aims. We have read with concern and consternation the "Report of the Holy See in Preparation for the Fourth World Conference on Women" (undated). We see in this Report an aspect of religious fundamentalism that misuses tradition and anthropology to limit women's roles and functions — indeed, rights.
"The Vatican constructs a vision of women and men in which men are normative persons and women are primarily understood in terms of their reproductive and mothering capacities. The most serious implications of this outmoded anthropology are apparent in the terms, definitions, and proposals that are built on its inaccurate premises. For example, the laudable ideal of women's dignity is circumscribed by the assumption that women's dignity is somehow based in reproductive capacity. No such assumption is made, ever, with regard to men whose dignity is presumed simply to be conferred by their humanity. ... there is simply no justification for such outdated notions unless the intent is to discriminate.
It is the Vatican's view of women's specificity that has led to prohibitions on women's reproductive choices and sexual expression, and to the banning of women as priests and bishops. It is this kind of thinking — that some are more fully human than others — that underlies the hierarchical structures of the Catholic Church, structures that exclude and demean women. ...
"The Vatican's repetition of this notion of family, particularly with regard to motherhood in the context of heterosexual marriage, stands out as a rejection of other emerging forms of family. Indeed, we know many kinds of families that are equally loving and supportive — to name just a few: women in communities; lesbian and gay couples, with or without children; extended families of several generations of women, mostly, who nurture children. ... This is no time to enshrine the so-called traditional, nuclear family. It is time to encourage committed, responsible people to form committed bonds however they do so. ... the uncertainty or vulnerability that many women experience is neither biological nor essential. In fact, it is created by a patriarchal society in which men are taught that women are "special" — read, inferior — and that men, as normative human beings, can treat women as they will. ... Indeed, if the Vatican had its way, the "gift of life" it exalts would be coerced through forced continuation of pregnancies that are unsupported and unsupportable."
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Women-Church Convergence. "Equal is as Equal Does: From the Women-Church Convergence, a Catholic Feminist Commentary on the Report of the Holy See in Preparation for the Fourth World Conference on Women." Conscience (newsletter of 'Catholics' for a Free Choice), Spring/Summer 1995 [Volume XVI, Numbers 1 and 2], pages 3, 4, 6, 8 and 9.
Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER)
"Once again churches lag behind science. Long after social and behavioral scientists have proven that homosexuality is healthy, good and natural for a certain percentage of our population, the Roman Catholic Church continues to teach antiquated and harmful theology."
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Mary E. Hunt (former member of the 'Catholics' for a Free Choice Board of Directors and co-director of the Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER)). "Lesbian/Gay Catholics Are Church." Conscience (newsletter of 'Catholics' for a Free Choice), September-December 1987 [Volume VIII, Numbers 5 and 6], pages 10 and 11 [NOTE: A more profoundly nonsensical statement can scarcely be imagined. With millions dead of AIDS, we also know that sexually active homosexuals are infected with many diseases, suffer a very high murder and suicide rate, and lose an average of 30 years from their lives, regardless of whether or not they die of AIDS. How can such a disastrous lifestyle be "healthy, good and natural?"]
"The whole point of the Women-church movement is to say that women as women cannot be full religious agents in the patriarchal church and, therefore, the only way we can be church is to be Women-church."
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Mary E. Hunt (former member of the 'Catholics' for a Free Choice Board of Directors and co-director of the Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER)), quoted in Adelle-Marie Stan. "A Decade of Dissent." Conscience (newsletter of 'Catholics' for a Free Choice), September-December 1987 [Volume VIII, Numbers 5 and 6], pages 24 to 26.
"We don't even see the hint of developing an office of women's concerns in every diocese, a watchdog committee to monitor implementation, nor strategies for breaking the hegemony of the bishops-only decision making of the national church. Until each bishop sits at the conference table with a woman of equal rank from the diocese, this letter [the 1988 USCC letter "Partners in the Mystery of Redemption"] will remain a kind of novel. ...
We do not want the largess of the bishops for a few women deacons who will solve their priest shortage by their boundless energy and ministerial skill, unless the episcopacy is open to women" [NOTE: This is a warning to those naive enough to believe some feminists who say they only want the diaconate opened to women, and no more].
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Mary E. Hunt. "Limited Partners." Conscience (newsletter of 'Catholics' for a Free Choice), May/June 1988 [Volume IX, Number 3], pages 6 to 10.
"There is no theological or scientific consensus on the beginning of human life. ... The job of religious progressives is to clearly state that women are to be trusted, that women have and will continue to make just and person-enhancing choices about the quality of life — beginning with the quality of women's lives. ... We need to develop a society where women's reproductive choice is normative and where reproductive options are considered a human right. ...
Third, clinic bombing and harassment campaigns are a prevalent part of our contemporary moral landscape. Even when the "bombs" are verbal instead of chemical they take a toll. They are destructive of the patient and the providers who fear for their safety, their reputations and their well-being.
The strategy of civil disobedience, which included bringing about the arrest of a bishop in New York, is designed as much to wear down pro-choice people emotionally, psychically and spiritually as it is to close clinics. It is one more way of accomplishing the heinous goal of preventing women from being moral agents, from honoring our bodily integrity. ...
Women's right is choose is what I, as a Catholic, dare to call sacramental. ... Reproductive choice is a sacred trust and women are more than equal to the task. Bringing this to public expression, "praising our choices" as poet Marge Piercy has said, is something that a just society will celebrate as sacramental.
Second, "fathers'" rights need to be considered, but they are far down the ethical ladder when it comes to who decides about abortion. ... I mean especially lesbian mothers who have the right, not the privilege, to use reproductive technology to choose to have children by self insemination (we no linger consider it "artificial." ... Third, in a just society every health maintenance organization, every insurance company and every group practice will include abortion as a regular part of its services without the need to agonize, specialize and ostracize when the word is mentioned. ... It reminds me of the doctors who have chosen not to treat people with AIDS. In a just society, such doctors would, as Dr. Mervyn Silverman suggested, get another kind of work. ..."
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Mary E. Hunt (former member of the 'Catholics' for a Free Choice Board of Directors). "Abortion in a Just Society." Conscience (newsletter of 'Catholics' for a Free Choice), July/August 1988 [Volume IX, Number 4], pages 9 to 12 [emphasis in original].
"This approach reflects the fact that the role of ethicists is changing. Instead of being answer-givers in the twenty-first century, pronouncing on values in an absolute and privileged way, ethicists will contribute most creatively by helping people to live more comfortably with ambiguity. We will find ways to be comfortable with the answer "We do not know" about pre-embryonic human life. ... simple prattle from some Catholic prelates is a good example of what to avoid. ... They present attractive solutions, however because they boil down complex consideration into one-dimensional thinking. But they are hopelessly inadequate and morally embarrassing. ...
My own bias is in the direction of seeing reproduction as a communal responsibility that individuals carry out.
My proposal for skirting this trap is to think first in terms of the whole human project and then in terms of persons who make it up, and only in a tertiary way touch on the rights of fetuses and even more dimly, if at all, the rights of pre-embryos. The confusion comes in when we use the same word, "rights," to describe our consideration of all of these when in fact rights are properly ascribed to persons while "attention," "respect," and "concern" are more proper for other forms of human life. ...
This was time for judicial creativity, for admitting that a pre-embryo is neither person nor property. It was a time for creating some new legal status for what belongs to the common good. Ethicists must begin to define this so that judges can "know it when they see it." ...
We need to internalize the obligation to do justice to society as well as to individuals. This will take some getting used to in the United States, although countries like Sweden, the Netherlands, and others are far more developed in this way, as evidenced by their medical care and policies about the termination of life. We have much to learn from them. ... I worry that new reproductive technologies will simply produce more of the kinds of people who now have power and access, leaving aside the concerns, and the offspring, of most people who are poor and marginalized. Any ways in which new reproductive technologies contribute to this dynamic are anathema."
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Mary E. Hunt (former member of the 'Catholics' for a Free Choice Board of Directors). "Ethics on Ice: Soul-Chilling Dilemmas in New Reproductive Technology." Conscience (newsletter of 'Catholics' for a Free Choice), September/October 1989 [Volume X, Number 5], pages 1 to 6, 23 and 24.
"We understand this kind of analysis [of the Vatican's response to CFFC's 1984 New York Times pro-abortion advertisement] to be an essential part of the critical work necessary for the "feministization" of any patriarchal institution. By feministization we mean the process by which values of inclusivity and mutuality, justice and equality are made manifest in previously patriarchal, that is, hierarchical, gender-class-race-stratified organizations. ... As church officials see it, raising questions about abortion constitutes dissent. ... A characteristic of a patriarchal organization like the Roman Catholic Church is that is oppresses men as well as women. ... This case shows that patriarchy oppresses men by subtly and surely influencing them to internalize its expectations. Hence most men — and signers of the New York Times ad were no exception — find it impossible to engage in the transformation of patriarchy from within. ... Common strategies would have shown that the bonding of women from various communities can help to change a patriarchal church. ... Women-Church, rejecting the divisiveness of patriarchal Catholicism's hierarchies, makes no distinctions between secular and religious, lay and clergy. ...
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Conflict of interest and struggles for ideological and personal survival will emerge as we try to transform patriarchal religions. ...
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It seems clear to us that the days of canonical religious communities, or the analogous women's auxiliaries bound to patriarchal organizations on these organizations' terms, is over. ... But such groups simply cannot be a part of a patriarchal structure if women are to commit ourselves fully to a "discipleship of equals." ... It seems that even ordination gives some women a kind of position that is contingent on patriarchal approval.
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Mary E. Hunt and Frances Kissling, President of 'Catholics' for a Free Choice (CFFC). "The New York Times Ad." Conscience (newsletter of 'Catholics' for a Free Choice), Spring/Summer 1993 [Volume XIV, Numbers 1 and 2], pages 16 to 23.
"I testify tonight as a lesbian feminist who is a Catholic theologian, a woman who prepared fully with the Jesuits for priesthood. ... To be a lesbian feminist is to love all women. ... My experience of coming out ten years ago was very exciting and positive for me, although the institutional church never congratulated me on my insight. ... We had never been told about this foolproof means of natural birth control! [lesbianism] ... Having learned by the early '70s that much of what the institutional, hierarchical church teaches about women is morally bankrupt, I cannot say that I ever gave the church's position much credence. To the contrary, because the church's positions on birth control, abortion, and sterilization, not mention sexual relations outside of marriage, and masturbation, were so far off the mark, my discovery of the church's prohibition of lesbian sexuality only enhanced my sense that it was probably important for women to affirm the lesbian in all of us."
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Mary E. Hunt (former member of the 'Catholics' for a Free Choice Board of Directors), quoted in "The Examined Life." Conscience (newsletter of 'Catholics' for a Free Choice), Spring/Summer 1993 [Volume XIV, Numbers 1 and 2], pages 50 to 52.
"... some feminists allege that Jesus' role as a surrogate for human sinners legitimates child abuse and other forms of victimization [NOTE: Say what?] ...
"... she cleverly calls Christianity "compost ... it has decayed and died, becoming a mix of animate and inanimate, stinking rot and released nutrients. Humus. Fertilizer." While the image may strike some readers as flip, trivializing, I consider it a brilliant insight, one that carries the notion of "from generation to generation" in an ecological metaphor."
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Mary E. Hunt (former member of the 'Catholics' for a Free Choice Board of Directors and co-director of the Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER). "Spiritual Compost" [review of Paula M. Cooey, William R. Eakin and Jay B. McDaniel [editors]. After Patriarchy: Feminist Transformations of the World Religions [Orbis Books, 1992]. Conscience (newsletter of 'Catholics' for a Free Choice), Winter 1992/93 [Volume XIII, Number 4], page 42.
"Specifically, having grown up and long outgrown the Catholic church, I still have a deep concern for the matters of meaning and value which that institution claims to be concerned about, heinous efforts to outlaw reproductive freedom notwithstanding ... In a hostile environment overrun with the platitudes of antichoice religious fanatics, religion itself, understandably, develops a bad name ... the toxic atmosphere created by antichoice activists at [abortion] clinics means that patients now, more than ever, need competent, caring people to accompany them through the decision making and medical procedures necessary to deal with unwanted pregnancies ... While hospitals have chaplains, few if any clinics have regular spiritual advisors as part of their staffs. This needs to be rethought and remedied."
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Mary E. Hunt (former member of the 'Catholics' for a Free Choice Board of Directors and co-director of the Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER)). "Secular Spirituality: Asking Questions About Abortion." Conscience (newsletter of 'Catholics' for a Free Choice), Summer 1994 [Volume XV, Number 2], pages 31 to 33.
Four "blessers" stand in the four corners of a room and:
"In solidarity with women and girls around the world, we call upon our Sisters of the North, East, South and West to bless and heal us."
[Blesser] "One: Blessed are you, Enduring Spirit of the North, for soothing us with oil when cold winds chill us to the bone.
[Blesser] "Two: Blessed are you, Comforting Sister of the East, for refreshing us with oil when we need strength to renew our lives.
[Blesser] "Three: Blessed are you, Gentle Wisdom of the South, for warming us with oil and caressing us with cool breezes.
[Blesser] "Four: Blessed are you, Healing Power of the West, for easing our hurts and bruises with oil when we need to keep open to life's changes."
One: Come, Two: Receive this oil, Three: Reclaim your healing powers Four: For yourself and for others.
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Diann L. Neu. "Break the Silence." WATERwheel (Newsletter of the Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER)), Volume 9, Number 3, 1996, page 5.
"O Spirit, wind of the South, warm our hurting spirits and open us to reconciliation with ourselves.
O Spirit, wind of the North, strengthen us to move beyond what is cold and hard in life, to fast from our unhealthy behavior.
O Spirit, wind of the West, refresh us with the red of the sunset that we may have courage to let go of the hurts and pains that have been done to us.
O Spirit, wind of the East, empower us with your rising sun to be open to revolutionary forgiveness."
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Dianne L. Neu and Mary E. Hunt. "Women-Church Sourcebook." Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER), Washington, D.C., 1993.
"From all of these we exorcise our race — the race of women — on this day of Pentecost. We respond to each evil by saying three times in our own language the words: "Be gone!" and adding a gesture of disgust."
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The consistently male image of God — "Be gone! Be gone! Be gone!"...
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All forms of patriarchy that suffocate women's spirits — "Be gone! Be gone! Be gone!"...
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Chains of classism, heterosexism and ageism that bind women everywhere — "Be gone! Be gone! Be gone!"...
From all of these evils in our lives we seek freedom! Let us tear up our papers as a sign of driving out the forces of evil ..."
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"Exorcism." Diann Neu and Mary E. Hunt. "Women of Fire: A Pentecost Event." Washington, D.C.: Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER), 1990, pages 30 and 31.
"Blessing the Bread — A Litany," by Carter Heyward.
"In the beginning was God
In the beginning, the source of all that is
In the beginning, God yearning
God, moaning
God, laboring
God, giving birth
God, rejoicing
And God loved what she had made
And God said, "It is good."
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Dianne L. Neu and Mary E. Hunt. "Women-Church Sourcebook." Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER), Washington, D.C., 1993.
"As Women Church we claim a new baptism — a baptism into a church which acknowledges that it is guilty of sexism, heterosexism, racism, classism ..."
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Excerpt from an Easter Vigil 'liturgy' by Diann Neu. Women Church Celebrations: Feminist Liturgies for the Lenten Season [Silver Spring, Maryland: Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER)], 1985, page 2. Also quoted in "War on the Faith: How Catholics for a Free Choice Seeks to Undermine the Catholic Church" [New York City: Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute], White Paper Number One, 2002, page 13 [NOTE: During this 'liturgy,' the 'celebrants' condemn, among other things, "women harassed by the Vatican" and "Nicaraguans harassed by the CIA"].
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].
Women's Health Action Mobilization (WHAM)
"DEATH TO THE CHURCH
"CARDINAL O'KILLER
"CHRIST WAS A HOMOSEXUAL
"ADOLPH HITLER — A CATHOLIC LEADER
"F— THE CHURCH
"SEX FOR FUN
"CURB YOUR DOGMA"
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Typical placards carried by activist homosexuals and pro-abortionists belonging to the groups ACT-UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) and WHAM (Women's Health Action Mobilization), as they stormed New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral on December 10, 1989, assaulting parishioners, disrupting Cardinal John O'Connor's Mass by screaming and shoving people, and desecrating the consecrated Host by throwing It on the ground and stamping on It. Outside, hundreds of screaming homosexuals burned Cardinal O'Connor in effigy and attacked passersby, all because the Cardinal had refused to toe their immoral "safe sex" line. As described in E. Michael Jones. "The Pope and the Condom Worshippers." Fidelity Magazine, October 1987, pages 32 to 44. Also see Just Out Magazine, January 1990, page 10.
Women's Liberation, Notes From The Second Year
"Political institutions such as religion, because they are based on philosophies of hierarchical orders and reinforce male oppression of females, must be destroyed ... Each stage [of the Neofeminist revolution] takes into account the interrelationship of all the institutions and therefore calls for simultaneous attacks on all of them."
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Women's Liberation, Notes From the Second Year, page 118.
"We must destroy love ... Love promotes vulnerability, dependence, possessiveness, susceptibility to pain, and prevents the full development of woman's human potential by directing all her energies outward in the interests of others."
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Women's Liberation, Notes From the Second Year, page 117.
"The church's complete condemnation of abortion, even to save a mother's life, denies women the traditional right to self-defense which for centuries has condomed men's killings and propitiated wars, thus emphasizing the lesser worth of women.
"To insist that [homosexuals] embrace lifelong celibacy is a dehumanizing demand."
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"Anger With the Church." Undated Women's Ordination Conference (WOC) pullout section entitled "New Woman, New Church."
"Call to Gather in Her Name
Candle Lighting Response
You are touched by Sophia-Spirit
and connected to women disciples.
Blessing: (let us pray together)
Blessed are you, Source of Life,
for you gave us women:
mothers, grandmothers, sisters,
daughters, lovers, friends,
who challenge us to be a discipleship of equals.
Discipleship of equals in Africa,
we bless this injera in solidarity with you.
Chant: "We Make Holy Our Bread" by Colleen Fulmer
Discipleship of equals in Latin America,
we bless these tortillas in solidarity with you.
Chant: "We Make Holy Our Bread"
Discipleship of equals in Europe,
we bless this rye bread in solidarity with you.
Chant: "We Make Holy Our Bread"
Discipleship of equals in Asia,
we bless this mochi in solidarity with you.
Chant: "We Make Holy Our Bread"
Discipleship of equals in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and the South Pacific,
we bless this damper in solidarity with you.
Chant: "We Make Holy Our Bread"
Discipleship of equals in North America,
we bless this corn bread in solidarity with you.
Chant: "We Make Holy Our Bread"
Blessing: (let us pray together)
Blessed are you, Spirit of Sustenance,
for you bring forth many grains from Planet Earth,
We take, bless, break and eat these breads
acknowledging the beauty and power of our diversity
as we work for a discipleship of equals.
Blessed are you, Holy One of Struggle,
for you call us to live in the best of struggles.
We take, bless and drink this fruit of the vine
In solidarity with all who are called by the Spirit
into a renewed priestly ministry, a discipleship of equals.
Blessed are you, Unity in Diversity,
for you toss together our distinctive personalities
Empower us to respect one another.
May we share our diverse gifts with all
who struggle to create a discipleship of equals.
Blessed are you, Playful One
for you renew each generation of every nation with children.
May these next generations find open to them
the ministries to which the Spirit calls them.
may they be good caresharers of Planet Earth.
Sending Forth
Blessed be Sophia.
Blessed be her holy name.
Blessed be all women: Young, generative, and wise.
Blessed be Sophia's sisters who keep alive the discipleship of equals.
Blessed be all men who work to overcome patriarchy and kyriarchy in church and society.
Blessed be the people at our tables.
"Planned by Diann L. Neu [of WATER, the Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual], Rose Mary Meyer and Maria Del Valle with Martha Ann Kirk, Shirley Tung, Victoria Rue, Sue Seid-Martin and Marta Vides."
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Excerpts from the hymnal/liturgical pamphlet entitled "Abundant Tables of the Discipleship of Equals: Breaking Bread/Doing Justice," distributed at the Women's Ordination Conference (WOC) 20th Anniversary Conference, November 11, 1995 [NOTE: In the closing, notice that men who do not "work to overcome patriarchy and kyriarchy" are not blessed. Such is the exclusive nature of WOC's ceremonies].
