“So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” (Genesis 1:27)
“The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide.” (Saint Basil)
“The first feminists were pro-life. Elizabeth C. Stanton called abortion ‘evil.’ Sarah F. Norton called abortion a ‘crime.’ Susan B. Anthony called abortion ‘child murder.’ Alice Paul called abortion ‘child murder.’ Alice Paul called abortion the “ultimate exploitation of women.’” (Lila Rose)
“I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.” (Ronald Reagan)
“Open your mouth for the speechless, In the cause of all who are appointed to die.” (Proverbs 31:8, NKJV)
“It moves one’s heart to think: Nine months before I was born there was a woman who loved me deeply. She did not know what I was going to be like, but she loved me because she carried me in her womb. And when she gave me birth, she took me in her arms, because her love was not just beginning — she conceived it along with me. A mother loves — and that is why abortion is so abhorrent.” (Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador and human rights leader murdered in 1980 by right-wing death squad)
“Probably nothing has been as damaging to our cause as the advances in technology which have allowed pictures of the developing fetus, because people now talk about the fetus in much different terms than they did 15 years ago. They talk about it as a human being, which is not something that I have an easy answer on how to cure.” (Harrison Hickman, pollster for the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League)
“The difference between the way of life and the way of death is great. Therefore, do not murder a child by abortion or kill a newborn infant.” (The Didache, apostolic moral teachings compiled at the end of the first century A.D.)
“They [the women] are never allowed to look at the ultrasound because we knew that if they so much as heard the heartbeat, they wouldn’t want to have an abortion.” (Former abortionist, Dr. Joseph Randall)
“Given that (a) early feminists were steadfastly opposed to censorship and abortion, and (b) modern feminists are steadfastly committed to censorship and abortion, is it fair to say the feminist movement has lost its way?” (Mike Adams)
“Abortion is an affront to God’s sole and sovereign authority as the Giver and Taker of life. Abortion, like murder or suicide, asserts human beings as the ones who control life and death. But God the Creator alone has the right to determine when someone lives and dies, and abortion flies directly in the face of His authority.” (David Platt)
“It seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.” (Mahatma Gandhi)
“When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.” (Pioneer feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
“I am not a one-issue voter in the sense that indicates I am an ignorant fundamentalist who only cares about one thing. I believe in protecting the environment. I believe in caring for the poor, the orphan, the widow in her distress. These are some of the so-called “issues” that many use to justify voting for Obama. How can we possibly claim it is Christian love for the poor and helpless that motivates us to vote for such a man when he is so committed to the killing of the most helpless among us?” (Joseph Bayly)
“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.” (Mother Theresa)
“So many times the debate of abortion turns to legality. The issue is not legality, the issue is morality. Have you not forgotten? It was legal for Adolf Hitler to place all of those men, women, and children in concentration camps and murder them. Abortion should never be an issue of legality, it is most definitely an issue of morality.” (Derrick Sanderson)
“Abortion does not kill a potential human person, it kills a human person with great potential.” (Anonymous)
“The Lord called me from the womb…formed me from the womb to be His servant.” (Isaiah 49:1,5)
“Just because something happens to be legal does not make it moral, ethical or right. Abortion is perhaps one of the most dramatic examples of a situation where something is legal, but is very much a sin against God.” (A.L. Barry, President of the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church)
“If we were made to watch a doctor pull off the little baby’s legs and arms one by one and place them on the table like a dentist removing cotton from your mouth, if all Americans were made to see what it really is, the pro-life goal of abortion being unthinkable (not just illegal) would be much nearer.” (John Piper)
“The best decision I ever made was keeping my baby.” (Poet Maya Angelou)
“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)
“I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore, choose life, that both you and your descendants may live.” (Deuteronomy 30:19)
“The passage of time hasn’t changed the fact that abortion is a serious, lethal violation of fundamental human rights, and that women and children deserve better, and that the demands of justice, generosity, and compassion require that the right to life be guaranteed to everyone.” (Chris Smith)
“If the unborn is not a human person, no justification for abortion is necessary. However, if the unborn is a human person, no justification for abortion is adequate.” (Greg Kouki)
“You mass slaughter your own children and call it ‘reproductive freedom.’” (Steve Deace)
“For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well.” (Psalm 139:13-14, NKJV)
“The Bible makes it clear that God sees the unborn infant not as a piece of superfluous biological tissue, but as a person created by Him for life.” (Billy Graham)
“The level of moral hypocrisy that we have required ourselves to live with in order to make abortion legal is much more evident to me now, as it must be to anyone who is genuinely willing to look at it.” (Cynthia Gorney, pro-choice journalist and author)
“The rights of children as individuals begin while yet the remain the fetus. I hold abortion to be just as much murder as the killing of a person after birth is murder.” (Early feminist, Victoria Claflin Woodhull)
“There is no greater coward than the doctor who brings his weapons of war and death against a child in the womb of its confused mother.” (Paul Bamikole)
“Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.” (E.A. Bucchianeri)
“However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is 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)
“We’re living in an age of genocide…And we do believe that there is not only the genocide of war, and the genocide that took place with the extermination of the Jews, but the whole program of birth control and abortion is another form of genocide…They claim the poor are bringing forth tremendous numbers of children and so the solution is to kill them off.” (Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker Movement)
“Life is a civil right. Abortion is a civil wrong.” (Alveda C. King)
“To forbid birth is only quicker murder. He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.” (Tertullian)
“The fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being and it is a monstrous crime to rob it of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy. If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house than in a field, because a man’s house is his place of most secure refuge, it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.” (John Calvin)
“The right to life is the first right mentioned in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Every human being, born or pre-born, is entitled to this fundamental right.” (Dr. Jerome Lejeune)
“ Abortion is legal because babies can’t vote.” (Joseph Bonkowski)
“The baby leaped in my womb for joy” (Luke 1:39)
“Abortion is the antithesis of womanhood.” (Allene van Oirschot)
“Conception is the beginning of human life. From the time that an ovum is fertilized a new life begins that is neither that of the father nor of the mother. It is rather the life of a new human being with his own growth. It would never become human if it were not human already.” (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Declaration on Procured Abortion, 1974)
“A prenatal diagnosis of disability should mean empathy and concern for the child not exclusion or a death sentence. Every life is a gift.” (Steven Ertele)
“Christians should be at abortion mills, all of them, every day. And we should not be silent. What we should be doing is proclaiming the glorious gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. We should be imploring butchers, butchers’ assistants, boyfriends, grandmothers, pregnant moms to turn from their sin, to repent and throw themselves on the mercy of God in Christ. We should be pleading with the blind that they not further sear their consciences, and dance across the precipice of hell. We should be calling men to be men, to protect rather than murder their children.” (R.C. Sproul Jr.)
“Abortion kills the life of a baby after it has begun.” (1963 pamphlet by Planned Parenthood)
“In the past, we used to discriminate on the basis of skin color and gender (and still do at times), but now with elective abortion, we discriminate on the basis of size, level of development, location, and degree of dependency. We’ve simply swapped one form of bigotry for another.” (Scott Klusendorf)
“Anyone who celebrates or endorses abortion but then pretends to recoil at any other form of murder is lying.” (Matt Walsh)
“Life is the most basic human right, and without it, no other rights can be enjoyed or protected.” (Anonymous)
“People in the pro-choice movement want women considering abortion to believe that the most difficult part of their choice will be the step through the door of the abortion clinic. For women like my mother, far more difficult was the step out the door–and every step after that for the next 20 years.” Prisca Lecroy)
“The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus.” (Pioneer feminist Victoria Woodhull)
“Abortion is the atrocity of our age, and like most atrocities the horror of it is excused and ignored for the sake of the ‘good’ it is supposed to procure — a good, I might add, that has yet to materialize. We are not more welcoming, children are not better cared for, marriages are not saved, rape and sexual exploitation not eliminated.” (Kate Cousino)
“The statement that ‘abortion is a women’s choice over her body’ is a half-truth, because there are two heartbeats, not one.” (Teresa Squitti)
“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.” (Thomas Jefferson)
“Abortion is the most vile evil committed in America.” (Marjorie Taylor Greene)
“I knew that I had to do what it took. I just couldn’t abort him.” (Pattie Mallette, mother of pop star Justin Bieber)
“There will be over 3,500 killed in USA today from abortion. No flags lowered, no presidents crying. No media hyperventilating. Normal day.” (Matt Drudge)
“How is the person who considers abortion to be murder any different from the Pole who knew what was going to happen at Auschwitz? If the Pole was morally obligated to attempt to save lives, isn’t the person who opposes abortion under the same obligation?” (B.D. Colen)
“Any discrimination based on the various stages of life is no more justified than any other discrimination. The right to life remains complete in an old person, even one greatly weakened; it is not lost by one who is incurably sick. The right to life is no less to be respected in the small infant just born than in the mature person. In reality, respect for human life is called for from the time that the process of generations begins. From the time that the ovum is fertilized, a life is begun which is neither that of the father nor of the mother; it is rather the life of a new human being with his own growth. It would never be made human if it were not human already.” (Declaration on Procured Abortion)
“Somebody who should have been born is gone.” (Anne Sexton)