Abortion quotes and words of wisdom |  | "... the sin of abortion, or the destruction of unborn children ?
lies somewhere a close kin to the crime of destroying human life and
certainly to be condemned." | |  | Harold B. Lee
| | | "A woman who intentionally destroys a fetus is guilty of murder. And
we do not even talk about the fine distinction as to its being completely
formed or unformed." | | | Saint Basil the Great
| | | "Abortion is a skillfully marketed product sold to a woman at a
crisis time in her life. If the product is defective, she can not return
it for a refund." | | | Carol Everett
| | | "Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been
born." | | | Ronald Wilson Reagan
| | | "Abortion sheds that innocent blood. Now, as a servant of the Lord, I
dutifully warn those who advocate and practice abortion that they incur the
wrath of Almighty God, who declared, "If men? hurt a woman with child, so
that her fruit depart from her ... he shall be surely punished."" | | | Russell M. Nelson
| | | "And so today, the undermining of the home and family is on the
increase, with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the
head of the home and create rebellion among the children. [Isaiah]
describes the condition when [he] states, "As for my people, children are
their oppressors, and women rule over them." and then these words
follow?and consider these words seriously when you think of those
political leaders who are promoting birth control and abortion: "O my
people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy
paths." Isaiah 3:12" | | | Ezra Taft Benson
| | | "For nearly 2,000 years of Christian civilization, taking the life of
an unborn child was regarded as a vile and heinous moral offense which
degraded humanity.... Abortions to avoid illegitimate births, or otherwise
for convenience, were performed with a secrecy that was as much the mark of
the shame attaching to the deed as a consequence of its illegality." | | | Ronald Butt
| | | "However we may pity the mother whose health and even life imperiled
by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient
reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent." | | | Pope Pius XI
| | | "If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament." | | | Florynce Kennedy
| | | "Inbreeding is how we get championship horses. Louisianna state
representative, explaining why he was fighting a proposed anti-abortion
bill that allowed abortion in cases of incest." | | | Carl Gunter
| | | "Listen to these wounds of pain put in the form of questions to me by
a young woman who had had two abortions: "I wonder about the spirits of
those I had aborted, if they were there, if they were hurt? I was under
three months each time, but a mother feels life before she feels
movement." "I wonder if they are lost and alone?" "I wonder if they will
ever have a body?" "I wonder if I will ever have a chance again to bring
those spirits back as mine?" Alas, brothers and sisters, "wickedness never
was happiness" (Alma 41:10)." | | | Neal A. Maxwell
| | | "Mother Teresa Has Anti-Abortion Answer At a National Prayer
Breakfast in Washington Feb. 3, Mother Teresa of Calcutta delivered the
most startling and bold proclamation of truth to power I have heard in my
more than 30 professional years in Washington. Before an audience of 3,000
- that included the president and his wife, the vice president and his wife
and congressional leaders, among others - the 83-year old nun, who is
physically frail but spiritually and rhetorically powerful, delivered an
address that cut to the heart of the social ills afflicting America. She
said that America, once known for generosity to the world, has become
selfish. And she said that the greatest proof of that selfishness is
abortion. Tying abortion to growing violence and murder in the streets,
she said, "If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can
we tell other people not to kill each other? . . . Any country that accepts
abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get
what they want." At that line, most of those in attendance erupted in a
standing ovation, something that rarely occurs at these sedate events. At
that moment, President Clinton quickly reached for his water glass, and
Mrs. Clinton and Vice President and Mrs. Gore stared without expression at
Mother Teresa. They did not applaud. It was clearly an uncomfortable moment
on the dais. She then delivered the knockout punch: "Many people are very,
very concerned with children in India, with the children of Africa where
quite a few die of hunger, and so on. Many people are also concerned about
all the violence in this great country of the United States. "These
concerns are very good. But often these same people are not concerned with
the millions who are being killed by the deliberate decision of their own
mothers. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today -
abortion, which brings people to such blindness." What? Abortion destroys
peace and causes blindness toward the sick, the hungry and the naked?
Abortion leads to wars between nations? Of course it does, if life is
regarded so lightly and its disposal becomes so trivial, so clinical and
so easy. Why should people or nations regard human life as noble or
dignified if abortion flourishes? Why agonize about indiscriminate death
in Bosnia when babies are being killed far more efficiently and out of the
sight of television cameras? Mother Teresa delivered her address without
rhetorical flourishes. She never raised her voice or pounded the lectern.
Her power was in her words and the selfless life she has led. Even
President Clinton, in his remarks that followed, acknowledged she was
beyond criticism because of the life she has lived in service to others.
At the end, she pleaded for pregnant women who don"t want their children
to give them to her: "I am willing to accept any child who would be
aborted and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child
and be loved by the child." She said she has placed over 3,000 children in
adoptive homes from her Calcutta headquarters alone. She has answered the
question, "Who will care for all of these babies if abortion is again
outlawed?" Now the question is whether a woman contemplating abortion
wishes to be selfish or selfless, to take life or to give life." | | | Mother Teresa
| | | "Our attitude toward abortion ... is fixed by our knowledge that
according to an eternal plan all of the spirit children of God must come
to this earth for a glorious purpose, and that individual identity began
long before conception and will continue for all the eternities to come.
We rely on the prophets of God who have told us that while there may be
?rare? exceptions, ?the practice of elective abortion is fundamentally
contrary to the Lord?s injunction, ?Thou shalt not ... kill, nor do
anything like unto it?" | | | Dallin H. Oaks
| | | "The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine
goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over
behavior; power over women." | | | Ursula K. LeGuin
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Interesting Quotes
Take away the right to say "fuck" and you take away the right to say "fuck the government."Lenny Bruce - (1923 - 1966)
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.Mao Tse-tung - Chinese Communist politician (1893 - 1976)
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