"I think we have deluded ourselves into believing that people don't know that abortion is killing.

"So any pretense that abortion is not killing is a signal of our ambivalence, a signal that we cannot say yes, it kills a fetus; but it is the woman's body, and therefore ultimately her choice."

Faye Wattleton, past president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, in Ms, May/June 1997