“With regard to the freedom of the individual for choice with regard to abortion, there is one individual who is not being considered at all, and that is the one who is being aborted. And I have noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.” ChoicesIndividualBornRegardAbortion Author:Ronald Reagan
“The United Nation's goal is to reduce population selectively by encouraging abortion, forced sterilization, and control of human reproduction, and regards two-thirds of the human population as excess baggage, with 350,000 people to be eliminated per day.” PeopleHumansTwoNationsGoalUnitedThirdsRegardPopulationAbortionExcessUnited NationsReproductionBaggageHuman PopulationSterilizationExcess Baggage Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau
“I don't think abortion is a good idea. I personally am opposed to abortion, but I will not judge anybody else's right in that regard because I am not a woman and I could never face the actual reality of it.” ThinkingIdeasRealityFacesJudgingRegardAbortionGood Ideas Author:Martin Sheen
“Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.” MayWarMoralOpinionIssuesDiversityWeightRegardCatholicAbortionPenaltiesDeath PenaltyEuthanasiaMoral IssuesWaging War Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“For you deal here above all with human life, and human life is sacred; no one may dare make an attempt upon it. Respect for life, even with regard to the great problem of the birth rate, must find here in your Assembly its highest affirmation and its most rational defense. Your task is to ensure that there is enough bread on the tables of mankind, and not to encourage an artificial control of births, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.” HumansMayEnoughProblemWould BeLife IsOrderDealsNumbersMankindBirthHighestTasksRegardTablesSacredRateDareDefenseBreadRationalHuman LifeAbortionGuestsArtificialIrrationalAffirmationDiminishAssemblyBanquetsBirth Rate Author:Pope Paul VI
“I have been one who believes that abortion is the taking of a human life . . . . The fact that they could not resolve the issue of when life begins was a finding in and of itself. If we don't know, then shouldn't we morally opt on the side that it is life? If you came upon an immobile body and you yourself could not determine whether it was dead or alive, I think that you would decide to consider it alive until somebody could prove it was dead. You wouldn't get a shovel and start covering it up. And I think we should do the same thing with regard to abortion.” IfsThinkingKnowsShouldBelieveHumansHas BeensFactsBodyReligionSidesIssuesAliveMoralityProveFindingsRegardDetermineHuman LifeAbortionResolveCoveringProve ItShovels Author:Ronald Reagan
“There’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with that would become part of my agenda.” RegardFamiliarAbortionAgendasLegislation Author:Mitt Romney
“While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may still be permissible to take up arms to repel an aggressor or to have recourse to capital punishment. There may be a legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not however with regard to abortion and euthanasia.” MayStillsWarChurchOpinionArmsExerciseAuthorityDiversityMercyRegardCatholicCriminalsPunishmentAbortionPenaltiesDeath PenaltyDiscretionImposingEuthanasiaCapital PunishmentRecourseAggressorsPeace Not WarWaging War Author:Pope Benedict XVI