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Woman threatens to kill her kids to get abortion (Before Roe)
CLINIC QUOTES ^ | Sarah Terzo

Posted on 07/12/2018 9:52:32 AM PDT by Morgana

Helen Bayley was a member of the local League of Women Voters in New York, and she became active in the pro-choice movement after being forced to have two psychiatrists pronounce her mentally unstable in order to have an abortion. (In the 1960s, in some states, a woman had to claim mental illness in order to be granted and abortion) From the book Before Roe:

“I’m going to kill my kids,” I raged. I said I’ll go berserk. I felt that way. I felt like a tigress. I felt I was clawing my way out of a thicket.”

The book goes on to say:

“Bailey became a vocal supporter of abortion reform, testifying in a legislative hearing in Albany in the spring of 1968 and lobbying legislators.”

Rosemary Nossiff Before Roe: Abortion Policy in the States (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press, 2001) 91, 92


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KEYWORDS: abortion; clinicquotes; prolife; theysaidit
This story is Pre-Roe. Why didn't they just lock this woman up in a Nervous Hospital and have her husband have custody of the children?
1 posted on 07/12/2018 9:52:32 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Abortion is not a therapeutic approach for mental illness.


2 posted on 07/12/2018 10:01:50 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Rights and Dignity.)
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To: Morgana

Angry hysteria is what keeps abortion supporters together.


3 posted on 07/12/2018 10:01:55 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Liberalism, like insanity, is the denial of reality.)
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In case I put the wrong linky in...here it is...

http://clinicquotes.com/woman-threatens-to-kill-her-kids-to-have-abortion/


4 posted on 07/12/2018 10:16:14 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

and noone removed her children from her for their own protection?


5 posted on 07/12/2018 10:32:46 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Morgana
Abortion supporters seem to have a need to kill or at least violently attack people.

Reporters Flee Supreme Court After Abortion Activists Get Violent: “It Got So Volatile We Didn’t Feel Safe”

6 posted on 07/12/2018 1:00:34 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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