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Quotes from the Pro-Life Side
"If
it is not wrong for big, strong people to kill little, weak people just
because they do not want them to live, then what could possibly be
wrong?"
~
Peter
Kreeft
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights: among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
~ Thomas
Jefferson. July 4, 1776
The Declaration of Independence
"Simple morality
dictates that unless and until someone can prove the unborn human is not alive,
we must give it the benefit of the doubt and assume it is. And, thus, it should
be entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
~ Ronald Reagan
"You do not have the
right to do what is wrong."
~ Abraham Lincoln
"It is a poverty to
decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
~ Mother Teresa
“Why should the slaughter
of six million Jews and countless others qualify as genocide but not the
slaughter of 45 million unborn
children?”
~ John
Mallon
“We've been wrong because
we allowed the strong to rule over the weakest members of our society - our
pre-born children. When will we dare to say that personal choice stops at the
taking of another human life.”
~ Rev.
Keith Tucci
“If a doctor will take
money for killing the innocent in the womb, he will kill you with a needle when
paid by your children.”
~ Dr. R A Gallop
"To remain silent when
one should protest makes
cowards out of men."
~ Abraham Lincoln
"The only thing necessary
for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
~ Edmund Burke
"How can there be too many children? That is like saying there
are too many flowers."
"No person shall...be deprived of
life...,without due process of law..."
~ Article V of The Bill of Rights,
The Fifth Amendment of
The Constitution of the United States
“Right
is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if
everyone is for it.”
“Every
legislator, every doctor, and every citizen needs to recognize that the
real issue is whether to affirm and protect the sanctity of all human
life, or to embrace a social ethic where some human lives are valued and
others are not. As a nation, we must choose between the sanctity of life
ethic and the "quality of life" ethic.”
"…nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property
without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its
jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
~ Article XIV- The Fourteenth
Amendment
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of The Constitution of the
United States
"The
care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the
first and only legitimate object of good government."
"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so
that you may live as you wish."
"The greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion."
"Any country that accepts abortion, is not teaching
its people love, but to use any violence to get what it wants."
"What is taking place in America
is a war against the child. And if we accept that the mother can kill
her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?"
"Life is a gift that God has given us. That life is
present even in the unborn. A human hand should never end a life. I am
convinced that the screams of the children whose lives have been
terminated before their birth reach God's ears."
"You know, people worry all the time about innocent
children being killed in wars, and they try to prevent this. But what
hope is there in stopping it if mothers kill their own children? Every
life is precious to God, whatever the circumstances. In Isaiah, chapter
43, verse 4, God says, "You are precious to me and I love
you."
"We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, of
killings, of wars, of hatred. If a mother can kill her own child, what
is left but for us to kill each other?"
"We who as a people always knew that abortion was the
killing of an unborn baby were brainwashed to believe that the destruction of
the "products of conception" or the destruction of a "fetus"
is not the same thing as killing an unborn baby. Traditional medical definitions
were deliberately changed in order to do away with our moral repugnance toward
abortion."
~ C. Everett Koop, M.D.,
former U.S. Surgeon General
(Reagan Administration)
"I have three sisters with breast cancer, and I resent
people messing with scientific data to further their own agenda, be they
pro-choice or pro-life. I would have loved to have found no association between
breast cancer and abortion, but our research is rock solid, and our data [are]
accurate. It's not a matter of believing. It's a matter of what is."
~ Dr. Janet Daling, a pro-choice medical researcher who confirmed the
abortion-breast cancer link
"I think it's safe to say that the entire abortion
industry is based on a lie…. I am dedicated to spending the rest of my life
undoing the law that bears my name."
~ Norma McCorvey,
the plaintiff "Jane Roe" in the Roe v Wade
lawsuit
"I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked,
nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner, I will not give a woman a
pessary to produce abortion."
~ Portion of the Oath of Hippocrates
"There is a day coming when we will hear the voice
from within the womb, when its own authentic pain will be undeniable, when we
will know with certainty that it is saying, "I want to live. I have a right
to live. I do not need your permission to live."
~ Mary
McAleese,
president of The Republic of Ireland
"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on."
~ Carl Sandburg
"I do not love him because he is good, but because he
is my little child."
~ Rabindranath Tagore
"Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women."
~ Alice Paul
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Quotes from the Dark Side of
"Choice"
"We have yet to beat our drums
for birth control in the way we beat them for
polio vaccine. We are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics, even though this is the exact
truth.”
~ Mary Calderone, M.D.
Former president of Planned Parenthood
“[Pregnancy]
may be defined as a disease... [and]...treated by evacuation of the uterine contents.”
~ Warren Hern,
Nations leading abortionist and author of Abortion
Practice
"All
I am saying is, why limit the killing to the womb? Nothing magical happens at
birth. Of course, infanticide needs to be strictly legally controlled and rare - but it
should not be ruled out, any more than abortion."
~ Peter Singer,
Chairman of
Bioethics,
Princeton University
“Infanticide
is not a great wrong. I do not want to be construed as condemning women who,
under certain circumstances, quietly put their infants to death.”
~ Beverly Harrison, Professor of Christian Ethics, Union Theological
Seminary
"Today
it is possible for almost any patient to be brought through pregnancy
alive, unless she suffers from a fatal illness such as cancer or leukemia,
and if so, abortion would be unlikely to prolong, much less save life."
~ Alan Guttmacher, M.D.
Former president of Planned Parenthood
"Let's
just say for instance we took a different view, a different tact and we left
the leg in the uterus just to dismember it. Well, we'd probably have to dismember it at several
different levels because we don't have firm control over it, so we would attack
the lower part of the lower extremity first, remove, you know, possibly a foot,
then the lower leg at the knee and then finally we get to the hip."
~ Martin Haskell, Abortionist
"The
procedure changes significantly at 21 weeks because the fetal tissues become
more cohesive and difficult to dismember. The calvaria [upper skull] is no
longer the principal problem; it can be collapsed. Other structures, such as
the pelvis, present more difficulty ...
A long curved Mayo scissors may
be necessary to decapitate and dismember the fetus ..."
~ Warren Hern, Abortion Practice, p.134
"After an abortion, the
doctor must inspect these remains to make sure that all the fetal parts
and placenta have been removed. Any tissue left inside the uterus can
start an infection." Dr. Bours squeezed the contents of the sock into
a shallow dish and poked around with his finger. 'You can see a teeny tiny
hand' he said."
~ Abortion clinic worker quoted
in
Is the Fetus Human?
"The Abortion Conflict: What it Does to One Doctor," by Dudley
Clendinen, New York Times Magazine Aug 11 1985, p. 26
"It [the fetus] is a form
of life...This has to be killing...The question then becomes, 'Is this
kind of killing justifiable?' In my own mind, it is justifiable, but only
with the informed consent of the mother."
~ Abortionist quoted in Democrat
and Chronicle, 7/5/92
"We were hiding from the women some of the pieces of truth about
abortion that were threatening....It is a kind of killing."
~ Former clinic administrator,
Charlotte Taft, From The Dallas Observer, 3/18/95
"I have never denied that human life
begins at conception. If I have a complaint about our society, it's that
we don't deal with death and dying. Do we believe human beings have a
right to make decisions about death and dying? Yes we do, and those
decisions are made every day in every hospital."
~ One worker's quote, from
the book,
Lovejoy: A Year in the Life of an Abortion Clinic, by Peter Korn
"Arms, legs, and chests come out of the
forceps. It's not a sight for everybody."
~ Abortion provider, Dr.
William Thompson
"I have never yet counseled
anybody to have the baby. I'm also doing women's counseling on campus at
Albany State, and there I am expected to present alternatives. Whereas at
the abortion clinic you aren't really expected to."
~ Abortion counselor,
excerpted from Rachel Weeping and Other Essays About Abortion, James
Tunstead Burtchaell, editor,
New York: Universal Press, 1982
"Vital signs should be observed
regularly, and a Doppler [for listening to the fetal heartbeat] inaudible
to the patient should be used at intervals to determine the presence or
absence of fetal heart tones.. This [informed consent] is a controversial
area, but most professionals in the field feel that it is not advisable
for patients to view the products of conception, to be told the sex of the
fetus, or to be informed of a multiple pregnancy."
~ Abortionist Warren Hern in Abortion
Practice, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1984, pgs 145, 304
"They [the women] are never allowed to
look at the ultrasound because we knew that if they so much as heard the
heart beat, they wouldn't want to have an abortion."
~ Former abortion doctor, Dr.
Randall, "Pro-Choice 1990: Skeletons in the Closet"
by David Kuperlain and Mark Masters in Oct., New Dimensions magazine
"Sometimes we lied. A girl might ask
what her baby was like at a certain point in the pregnancy: Was it a baby
yet? Even as early as 12 weeks a baby is totally formed, he has
fingerprints, turns his head, fans his toes, and feels pain. But we would
say 'It's not a baby yet. It's just tissue, like a clot.'"
~ Kathy Sparks told in
"The Conversion of Kathy Sparks," Gloria Williamson, Christian
Herald
Jan 1986 p. 28
"In fact many women will come to me
considering abortion, and I have been personally told that I am to turn
the monitor away from her view so that seeing her baby jump around on the
screen does not influence her choice."
~ Shari Richards, quoted from The
John Ankerburg Show, 3/7/90
"I have been there, and I have seen
these totally formed babies as early as ten weeks...with the leg missing,
or with their head off. I have seen the little rib cages..."
~ Debra Harry
"I walked in the laboratory every day. I
saw dead babies every day for three years. If I could see fifty, I was so
happy. Because, you know what? That meant I was really gonna' have a good
bonus in my paycheck."
~ Clinic worker Hellen Pendley,
quoted by Mary Meeham in "The Ex-Abortionists: Why They Quit" in
The Human Life Review
"We
really need to get over this love affair with the fetus…."
~ Joycelyn Elders, former U.S. Surgeon General (Clinton Administration)
"Nobody wants to perform abortions
after ten weeks, because by then you see the features of the baby, hands,
feet. It's really barbaric."
~ Abortionist quoted in M.D. Doctors Talk
About Themselves, by John Pekkanen, p 93
"In testimony Wednesday in St. Louis
Circuit Court, [abortionist] Crist said that it is not uncommon for
second-trimester fetuses to leave the womb feet-first, intact and with
their hearts still beating. He sometimes crushes their skulls to get the
fetuses out. Other times, he dismembers them."
~ Jo Mannies, "Abortion
Doctor Gives Graphic Testimony Describing Abortion Procedure," St.
Louis Post-Dispatch, May 25, 2000
"Abortion is killing the
fetus....Human life, in and of itself, is not sacred. Human life, per se,
is not inviolate."
~ Abortionist Dr. Smith, as
quoted in "The Abortionist," by Leo Wang, Berkeley Medical
Journal, Spring 1995 Edition
"I look inside the bucket in front of
me. There is a small naked person in there, floating in a bloody liquid-
plainly the tragic victim of a drowning accident. But then perhaps this
was no accident, because the body is purple with bruises and the face has
the agonized tautness of one forced to die too soon. I have seen this face
before, on a Russian soldier lying on a frozen snow-covered hill, stiff
with death, and cold."
~ Dr. Magda Denes, PhD.
"Even now I feel a little peculiar
about it, because as a physician I was trained to conserve life, and here
I am destroying it."
~ Abortionist
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