“Every day we bear witness to each woman's knowledge of holding the profound power to decide whether or not to allow the life within her to come to term. The sharing of those moments makes abortion work sacred.” MomentsTermBearsSacredProfoundWitnessAbortion Author:Merle Hoffman
“What I remember most from reporting both the stories are the women. Going into the first piece, I didn't have a super fixed idea about abortion. I'd helped a high school friend get to a doctor once. I always assumed that what a woman did was up to her. But I could also see the pro-life point of view that human life should be sacred in whatever gestational form.” ShouldFirstsHumansIdeasStoriesSchoolRememberFormViewsPiecesHigh SchoolDoctorsSacredPoint Of ViewHuman LifeFixedAbortionPro LifeSchool FriendsHigh School Friends Author:John H Richardson
“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 am against abortion; I think that life is sacred and we should take a position of being against abortion. I think it is wrong to take human life. I think that human life starts at conception.” ThinkingShouldHumansLife IsPositionSacredHuman LifeAbortionConceptionAgainst Abortion Author:Billy Graham
“Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and Rousseau's criticism of them... Nature is raw material, worthless without the mixture of human labor; yet nature is also the highest and most sacred thing. The same people who struggle to save the snail-darter bless the pill, worry about hunting deer and defend abortion. Reverence for nature, mastery of nature- whichever is convenient.” PeopleHumansStatesNationsViewsActingWorryStruggleStageMaterialsHighestLaborCriticismSacredClassicAbortionBlessReverenceMasteryHuntingWorthlessPillsMixturesConvenientConfrontationDeerRaw MaterialsSnailActing OutSacred Things Author:Allan Bloom
“I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, we’ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don’t believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain, and lifelong, grinding poverty show us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we’ve made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred.” BelieveHumansMadeWarShowsPainEffortPovertyAcceptanceArgumentTreatsSacredSpeciesDon't BelieveHuman LifeAbortionLifelongFamineEpidemicsSanctitySanctity Of LifePro AbortionPro Choice Abortion Author:Caitlin Moran
“If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.” IfsWould BeSeriousSacredOccasionsAbortionSacraments Author:Carter Heyward
“I thank the Father that His Only Begotten Son did not say in defiant protest at Calvary, "My body is my own!" I stand in admiration of women today who resist the "fashion of abortion, by refusing to make the sacred womb a tomb!"” BodyTodayFatherMy OwnFashionSonSacredAbortionProtestAdmirationWombTombsCalvary Author:Neal A. Maxwell
“I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.” ThinkingLife IsSacredAbortionPenaltiesDeath Penalty Author:Tim Kaine