To claim the right to abortion, infanticide and euthanasia, and to recognize that right in law, means to attribute to human freedom a perverse and evil significance: that of an absolute power over others and against others. This is the death of true freedom: “Truly, truly, I say to you, every one who commits sin […]
Abortion Quotes
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism.
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
Abortion is the greatest destroyer of peace because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you, and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
Extra place set at your mind’s table like Ezekiel’s empty glass, clean spoon. Hands that never pointed out the moon, laid the baby in the Christmas stable, dried dishes. Voice that doesn’t call downstairs that he or she will be there soon. In steam behind a bathroom door, no one puts on makeup, leaves a […]
I think incest can be handled as a family matter within the family. (Representative, R, Ark., defending his position against abortion even in the case of rape or incest)
For the church to say that abortion is not acceptable for a Catholic is fine. To say directly or indirectly that on something that is a church teaching that you must also vote according to that – that’s not acceptable in a country based on the First Amendment.
