Quotes about Abortion
I prayed often for deliverance from the pain caused by my decision to abort my baby. I suffered the threat of cervical and breast cancer and experienced the pain of empty arms after the baby was gone. And truly, for me, and countless abortive mothers, nothing on earth can fully restore what has been lost; only Jesus can.
— Alveda King
I think it is a worthy goal in America to have every child protected by law and welcomed in life. I also think we ought to continue to have good adoption law as an alternative to abortion.
— George W. Bush
Abortion is not health care. A woman has a right to her body, but that is not her body. What about the baby?
— Alveda King
Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of the adoptive parents.
— George W. Bush
The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the evangelical community these days. I'm sure that these hot buttons will be pushed, time and time again.
— Tony Campolo
Abortion is a moral right—which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved.
— Ayn Rand
Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily.
— Mother Teresa
Strong resolution: We are going to save every little child, every unborn child, give them a chance to be born. We are fighting abortion with adoption.
— Eric Metaxas
Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To raise the question whether we are here concerned already with a human being or not is merely to confuse the issue. The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder.
— Eric Metaxas
Proponents of eugenics pursued this policy of racial improvement through controlled breeding, providing justification for such policies as forced sterilization, segregation laws, marriage restrictions — and, later, abortion. The
— Rick Renner
Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To raise the question whether we are here concerned already with a human being or not is merely to confuse the issue. The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
— Tertullian