Posted on 02/16/2018 4:51:22 PM PST by Morgana
Merle Hoffman, president and CEO of Choices Women’s Medical Clinic (Choices) in Jamaica, New York, who was questioned under oath yesterday by Liberty Counsel, has said that the “act of abortion positions women at their most powerful” because abortion gives women “power-and the responsibility-of taking life” so that they may control their own lives. “Merle Hoffman has acknowledged the obvious — that abortion is the taking of human life. What is shocking is that she believes killing a helpless child empowers women by enabling them to achieve their selfish goals,” said Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel.
In court yesterday, Hoffman admitted she collaborated with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to bring this frivolous federal lawsuit seeking to punish and silence pro-life and Christian speech on public sidewalks outside of her facility. Their “mere existence,” she said, is a “crime against women.” The case is being heard in a federal court in Brooklyn and will resume next week.
Liberty Counsel represents one of the 13 defendants, Scott Fitchett, Jr., a pre-K teacher who has spent Saturdays peacefully sharing the gospel on public sidewalks wherever he goes, including outside Choices.
Hoffman’s abortion facility has performed hundreds of thousands of abortions since 1971. During the hearing this week, the abortionist millionaire testified that peaceful sidewalk counselors are the “American Taliban” and that “their mere existence is a crime against women.”
In Hoffman’s memoir, Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Boardroom, she shares the experience of her own abortion. “The idea of abortion was a valve, an opening, a way to breathe. There was no question of whether I would have one. As we crossed the Fifty-Ninth Street Bridge, I held my stomach and said aloud, ‘Sorry little one, it’s just not time.’ My diary entry from that night reads, ‘For one night I am a mother.'”
Hoffman further states in Intimate Wars that abortion is the taking of human life, and that is why it makes women so powerful.
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“Does the fetus not impede a woman’s tendency to maintain her own existence? Is it not an unjust aggressor, threatening the survival of the mother? Is not a woman’s choice of abortion an act of self-defense?… I wasn’t immune to the physicality of abortion, the blood, tissue, and observable body parts. My political and moral judgments on the nature of abortion evolved throughout the years, but I quickly came to realize that those who deliver abortion services have not only the power to give women control over their bodies and lives, but also the power-and the responsibility-of taking life in order to do that. Indeed, acknowledgment of that truth is the foundation for all the political and personal work necessary to maintain women’s reproductive freedom…The act of abortion positions women at their most powerful, and that is why it is so strongly opposed by many in society. Historically viewed as and conditioned to be passive, dependent creatures, victims of biological circumstance, women often find it difficult to embrace this power over life and death. They fall prey to the assumption, the myth, that they cannot be trusted with it.”
Horatio Mihet, Vice President of Legal Affairs at Liberty Counsel, who questioned Hoffman in court on Thursday, said: “The depravity of those who find ’empowerment’ from taking what they rightly acknowledge to be defenseless human lives is matched only by their insatiable desire to shut down any speech that exposes them.” Commenting on the documented connection between Hoffman’s ideology and the frivolous lawsuit filed by the State of New York, Mihet added: “The very fact that Merle Hoffman has assisted in the destruction of hundreds of thousands of ‘little ones’ over the last half-century is unspeakably tragic. But her conspiring with New York’s Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to punish Scott Fitchett, Jr. for peacefully preaching truth on a public sidewalk is unconscionable. Their fraudulent scheme must be exposed and defeated.”
“Merle Hoffman and Attorney General Schneiderman are examples of the shocking reality of the abortion industry,” said Staver. “Countless precious lives have already been lost at Hoffman’s abortion clinic. Hoffman and Schneiderman are now fighting to punish the peaceful free speech of Scott Fitchett, Jr. and others. It is no wonder they do not care about the First Amendment because they do not care about defenseless human life,” said Staver.
LIFE is winning and Satan is desperate.
The headline quote is more projection.
Pro-lifers are for women and for babies. This author has it backwards.
Just... wow.
I could get snarky but this is too damn vile to joke about.
The phrase
Women and Babies
leaves out the other key member of families.
The left is planing a "final solution".
In almost any different time in history this person would be absolutely reviled by society. So women are “empowered” by taking life. So then who is not able to claim “empowerment” when they too choose to take life away from another. There is no longer any justification for any law barring murder because taking life can be justified as “empowering”.
These people really and truly are deranged in the strictest meaning of the word. They have lost their capacity as a rational human being. They are no different than the kid in the recent Florida shooting who, no doubt, also felt quiet “empowered” by taking the lives of other children.
These people are sick, and at 71, the very certain fires of Hell will to be for this soul unless she has a miraculous revelation.
Just said a Hail Mary for the soul of Merle Hoffmann. I read somewhere that no prayer is wasted. In this case, it's very tough to believe that...
Very sick and evil woman.
To not fear and respect a loving, merciful God will be to inherit His righteous wrath upon Judgement. Killing innocent children will incur a hellacious karma as reward. Scary to even think about that.
After a long career slaughtering babies, Merle has taken on quite a demonic appearance.
Abortionist are guilty of mass or serial murder in the lowest form: infanticide!
I wonder if these ass hats are trying to demonize Christians, like maybe they have some physical action planned. They don’t seem to understand how well armed many of us are, and how well trained we are in the use of weapons. I don’t think God requires that we be anyone’s doormat.
The wheels are starting to come off the Leftist’s Crazy Train.
The mere existence of pro-abortion feminazis is a crime against babies.
Feminists mere existence is a crime against the human race.
How bout that one libtard socialists?
She just wants to feel “empowered” over those pro-lifers on the sidewalk. Sad to say, usually they are a group of mild-mannered, unarmed ladies.
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