While we are often told by liberal progressives that abortions do not kill 'babies' and while liberal progressives often act as though we have committed an intellectual crime by using the term 'murder' or 'baby' in relation to 'abortion', some liberals are actually quite honest about why they want more abortions. For example, in 1992, Nicholas Von Hoffman said the following in the Philadelphia Inquirer:
"Free cheap abortion is a policy of social defense. To save ourselves from being murdered in our beds and raped on the streets, we should do everything possible to encourage pregnant women who don't want the baby and will not take care of it to get rid of the thing before it turns into a monster...At their demonstration, the anti-abortionists parade around with pictures of dead and dismembered fetuses. the pro-abortionists should meet these displays with some of their own: pictures of the victims of the unaborted---murder victims, rape victims, mutilation victims---pictures to remind us that the fight for abortion is but part of the larger struggle for safe homes and safe streets."
I recall being in residency and one doctor frequently commenting on how 'stupid' patients were and how they should be sterilized. Of course, sterilization, as bad as it is, is not the same as unjustified homicide, but one wonders if he, too, would not have agreed with the comments above.
