“Thou shalt not murder.” (Exodus 20:13)
“More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states’ statutes protecting the rights of unborn children. Abortion on demand now takes the lives of up to 1.5 million unborn children a year. Human life legislation ending this tragedy will some day pass the Congress, and you and I must never rest until it does. Unless and until it can be proven that the unborn child is not a living entity, then its right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness must be protected.” (Ronald Reagan)
“When something is so horrifying that we can’t stand to look at it, perhaps we shouldn’t be tolerating it.” (Joseph M. Scheidler)
“If a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing in between.” (Mother Teresa)
“Truth is abortion’s biggest enemy. That’s why no defender of abortion actually defends abortion. They defend ‘reproductive rights’ and ‘women’s healthcare,’ which are deceptive euphemisms for what they’re actually defending: the murder of baby humans. The reason is, deep down, everyone knows that abortion is murder, so the only way to defend such an obviously evil act is by distracting themselves and others from the reality of it.” (David Wilber)
“For He [Jesus] shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and He shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from His mother’s womb.” (Luke 1:15)
“To accept the fact that, after fertilization has taken place, a new human has come into being is no longer a matter of taste or opinion. The human nature of the human being from conception to old age is not a metaphysical conception. It is plain experimental evidence.” (Dr. Jerome Lejeune, French geneticist and recipient of the Kennedy Prize and the William Allen Memorial Medal for his discovery of the genetic basis of Down’s syndrome)
“When abortion is pushed into the dustbin of history, then and only then, will ‘all lives matter,’ including the black ones.” (Horace Cooper)
“So much for the fruits of love. Love? What’s love? Sex, ah, that’s another thing. Love has babies: sex has abortions.” (Fay Weldon)
“Child murderers practice their profession without let or hindrance, and open infant butcheries unquestioned. Is there no remedy for all this ante-natal child murder? Perhaps there will come a time when an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood and when the right of the unborn to be born will not be denied or interfered with.” (Pioneer feminist Sarah Norton)
“Paradoxically, I have angry feelings at myself for feeling good about doing a technically good procedure which destroys a fetus, kills a baby.” (New Mexico abortionist, American Medical News, July 12, 1993)
“The biblical view of children is that they are a blessing and a gift from the Lord (Ps. 127:3–5). However, Western culture increasingly treats children as liabilities. We must learn to see all children as God does, and we must act toward them as He commands us to act. We must defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed; rescue the weak and needy; and deliver them from the wicked. (Ps. 82:3–4).” (Randy Alcorn)
“Once you pass into the utilitarianism of abortion, where do you go? Why do you kill an unborn child after six months and not old people or not criminals or not just every second person in the world?” (Victor Heylen)
“As a person who worked in the abortion industry for eight years, I can say unequivocally that the most manipulation I have ever witnessed was inside the walls of the abortion clinic.” (Abby Johnson)
“Thus saith the Lord, for three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof, because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border.” (Amos 1:13,14)
“If it were possible for the unborn child to choose to be wanted or unwanted, the child would predictably and rightfully choose to be wanted. But if the alternative to being wanted is being eliminated, what kind of choice is that? Since the child cannot even make the choice (fruitless though it would be, considering the alternatives), there are those who make its choice for it by killing it, and then piously pretending that their killing is really not an act of murder but of mercy because it is done as a humanitarian favor to the child.” (Clifford Bajema)
“Abortion isn’t a lesser evil, it’s a crime. Taking one life to save another, that’s what the Mafia does. It’s a crime. It’s an absolute evil.” (Pope Francis)
“Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them.” (Pioneer feminist Susan B. Anthony)
“Creating life simply to destroy it is wrong.” (Mel Gibson)
“From conception to our final breath on this earth, all life is a sacred gift from Almighty God. It must be cherished in our hearts and protected through our actions, both in our capacity as individuals and also through our laws and policies as a nation.” (Dr. James Dobson)
“How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.” (Mother Teresa)
“God hates hands that shed innocent blood.” (Proverbs 6:17)
“The methods used to take human lives, such as abortion, the pill, the ring, etc., amounts to genocide. I believe that legal abortion is legal murder.” (Fannie Lou Hamer, one of the most powerful voices of the civil and voting rights movements.)
“Abortion is a facade of empowerment bittered with false truths.” (Allene van Oirschot)
“So what are the issues that government should be concerned about? There are many, but personally speaking, none are greater than the need to protect the lives of the unborn. Though I know of Christians that disagree with me on this, but if a man or woman supports abortion, I believe he or she, in my opinion, is immediately disqualified from office. I compare it to a dynamic leader that could be our greatest President in history but wanted to reinstitute the institution of slavery. Immediate disqualification.” (Randy Smith)
“To say a child is unwanted says nothing about the child, but it says much about the person who does not want his or her child.” (Jean Garton)
“You shall not slay the child by procuring abortion; nor, again, shall you destroy it after it is born.” (Epistle of Barnabas)
“Certainly every Christian ought to be praying and working to nullify the abominable abortion law. But as we work and pray, we should have in mind not only this important issue as though it stood alone. Rather, we should be struggling and praying that this whole other total entity [a godless worldview] can be rolled back with all its results across all of life.” (Francis Schaeffer)
“You are called to stand up for life, to respect and defend the mystery of life always and everywhere, including the lives of unborn babies, giving real help and encouragement to mothers in difficult situations. You are called to work and pray against abortion.” (Pope John Paul II)
“I’m against abortion.” Civil rights pioneer Charles Evers)
“Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child nor think of murdering one before its birth.” (Pioneer feminist Victoria Woodhull)
“No law can give me the right to do what is wrong.” (Abraham Lincoln)
“I was once pro-choice and the thing that changed my mind was, I read my husband’s biology books, medical books, and what I learned was at the moment of conception, a life starts. And this life has its own unique set of DNA, which contains a blueprint for the whole genetic make-up. The sex is determined. We know there is a life because it is growing and changing.” (Actress and model Kathy Ireland)
“But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by His grace.” (St. Paul, Galatians 1:15)
“It is the deepest cruelty to stop life from breaking forth, that is what you do when you abort a child growing in its mother’s womb.” (Paul Bamikole)
“Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman’s womb nor cause it to be born; that is wholly the work of God.” (Martin Luther)
“You are a member of the first generation of doctors in the history of medicine to turn their backs on the oath of Hippocrates and kill millions of old useless people, unborn children, born malformed children, for the good of mankind — and to do so without a single murmur from one of you. Not a single letter of protest in the august New England Journal of Medicine. And do you know what you’re going to end up doing? You a graduate of Harvard and a reader of the New York Times and a member of the Ford Foundation’s Program for the Third World? Do you know what is going to happen to you? You’re going to end up killing Jews.” (Novelist Walker Percy, The Thanatos Syndrome)
“I think abortion is murder.” (Actress and comedian Victoria Jackson)
“The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human life from conception to natural death.” (Cardinal Francis George)
“In biblical terms, the sanctity of human life is rooted and grounded in creation. Mankind is not viewed as a cosmic accident but as the product of a carefully executed creation by an eternal God. Human dignity is derived from God. Man as a finite, dependent, contingent creature is assigned a high value by his Creator.” (R.C. Sproul)
“Abortion is the leading cause of death for African Americans, more than all other causes combined, including AIDS, violent crimes, accidents, cancer, and heart disease. Tragically, more than sixteen million black babies have died by abortion since 1973.” (Horace Cooper)
“The fetus wished to live. Stubbornly, sometimes astonishingly-the fetus struggled to live. But the power of its life-or its death-had to reside with the mother. No other alternative was possible.” (Joyce Carol Oates)
“Did not He who made me in the womb make him? And did not One fashion us in the womb?” (Job 31:15)
“What an irony that a society confronted with plastic bags filled with the remains of aborted babies should be more concerned about the problem of recycling the plastic.” (Winifred Egan)
“How many others suffered in silence, too ashamed and too afraid to speak about their pain? The world wouldn’t let them grieve for children they had aborted. How could they when the rhetoric said there was no child? How does one grieve what doesn’t exist? No one wanted to admit the truth.” (Francine Rivers, The Atonement Child)
“I believe we do a disservice to God and probably to the pro-life cause if God is never mentioned in our pro-life arguments.” (George Cardinal Pell)
“There is no more precious gift you can give than life. Our forefathers fought and bled to bring about in this land a nation dedicated to the premise that all men are created equal.” (Pat Robertson)
“Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.” (Exodus 23:7)
“I got to where I couldn’t stand to look at the little bodies anymore.” Former abortionist Dr. Beverly McMillan)
“The right to life is not a woman’s issue. The Lord is the giver of life and only He can make choices about life. It is always a reward to have life only the Lord gives and takes life.” (Secretary of Health, Welfare, and Education Margaret Heckler)
“It did not occur to me that the Supreme Court was about to declare, in effect, that some human beings (the Court, interestingly, does not deny the unborn child’s humanity) are not persons — just as an earlier Court had refused to grant ‘full’ personhood to blacks, just as Hitler’s Germany had considered Jews and certain other human beings no more than ‘useless eaters’, and just as societies throughout history have rationalized their cruelty toward various elements of society by defining them out of equality.” (Paul Marx)
“I agree with Raymond Johnston, the director of CARE Trust, when he wrote in a newspaper article: ‘I personally am convinced that the destruction of the unborn on this massive, deliberate scale is the greatest single offence regularly perpetrated in Britain today, and would be the first thing an Old Testament prophet redivivus would reproach us for.” (John Stott)
“Abortion is an atrocity. Those who practice or praise it are either damn idiots, misguided fools, or treacherous devils.” (Christopher Titus)
“Whether by pill or invasive surgery, abortion is never good for women.” (Janet Parshall)
“How does a simple journey of seven inches down the birth canal suddenly transform the essential nature of the fetus from non-person to person?” (Scott Klusendorf)
“Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, The fruit of the womb is a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, So are the children of one’s youth. Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them” (Psalm 127:3-5)
“Abortion in the United States is fundamentally racist. Planned Parenthood was founded by a KKK supporting, Hitler admiring Eugenicist who started the, ‘Negro Project’ to curtail the black birth rate. Today around 75% of abortion clinics are in minority neighborhoods and black women account for a hugely disproportionate number of abortions.” (Debi Vandenboom)
“There is no more important issue than restoring the protection of the law to pre-natal infants.” (Senator Gordon Humphrey)