Millionaire abortionist Merle Hoffman, president and CEO of Choices Women’s Medical Clinic (Choices) in Jamaica, New York, admitted during a court hearing that she has collaborated with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in a federal lawsuit against 13 Christian pro-life sidewalk counselors.

The frivolous lawsuit alleges that sidewalk counselors engage in illegal activity by attempting to guilt women out of their “constitutional right” to kill unborn children.

The non-profit litigation firm Liberty Counsel, which has represented the 13 defendants, had the opportunity to question Merle Hoffman under oath, where she castigated pro-lifers as the “American Taliban” whose “mere existence is a crime against women.”

Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel, referred to Hoffman’s statements as “shocking.”

“Merle Hoffman has acknowledged the obvious — that abortion is the taking of human life,” said Staver. “What is shocking is that she believes killing a helpless child empowers women by enabling them to achieve their selfish goals.”

As LifeNews points out, in Hoffman’s memoir, “Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Boardroom,” the abortion advocate spoke of her “empowering” journey to aborting a baby. Hoffman wrote that the “act of abortion positions women at their most powerful” because abortion gives women “power — and the responsibility — of taking life” to take “control over their bodies and lives” (see excerpt below).

“The idea of abortion was a valve, an opening, a way to breathe,” she wrote. “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 admits in her memoir that abortion kills, which is precisely what makes it so incredibly “powerful.” She also compares the fetus to “an adjust aggressor.”

“Does the fetus not impede a woman’s tendency to maintain her own existence?” she wrote. “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?”

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.

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