Pro Life Quotes

“In my world, you don’t get to call yourself “pro-life” and be against common-sense gun control — like banning public access to the kind of semiautomatic assault rifle, designed for warfare, that was used recently in a Colorado theater. You don’t get to call yourself “pro-life” and want to shut down the Environmental Protection Agency, which ensures clean air and clean water, prevents childhood asthma, preserves biodiversity and combats climate change that could disrupt every life on the planet. You don’t get to call yourself “pro-life” and oppose programs like Head Start that provide basic education, health and nutrition for the most disadvantaged children...The term “pro-life” should be a shorthand for respect for the sanctity of life. But I will not let that label apply to people for whom sanctity for life begins at conception and ends at birth. What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth.”
― Thomas L. Friedman

“I don't know what happens to our consciousness when we're unwound," says Connor. "I don't even know when that consciousness starts. But I do know this." He pauses to make sure all of them are listening. "We have a right to our lives!"
The kids go wild.
"We have a right to choose what happens to our bodies!"
The cheers reach fever pitch.
"We deserve a world where both those things are possible— and it's our job to help make that world.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“The "right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" begins with "life", and "life" begins at conception.”
― A.E. Samaan

“Today the danger of the pro-life position, which I vigorously support, is that it can be frighteningly selective. The rights of the unborn and the dignity of the age-worn are pieces of the same pro-life fabric. We weep at the unjustified destruction of the unborn. Did we also weep when the evening news reported from Arkansas that a black family had been shotgunned out of a white neighborhood.

When we laud life and blast abortionists, our credibility as Christians is questionable. On one hand we proclaim the love and anguish, the pain and joy that goes into fashioning a single child. We proclaim how precious each life is to God and should be to us. On the other hand, when it is the enemy that shrieks to heaven with his flesh in flames, we do not weep, we are not shamed; we call for more”
― Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel

“Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

“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, Decision Points

“I could feel the baby being torn from my insides. It was really painful....Three-quarters of the way through the operation I sat up....In the cylinder I saw the bits and pieces of my little child floating in a pool of blood. I screamed and jumped up off the table....I just couldn't stop throwing up....”
― Randy Alcorn, Why Pro-Life?: Caring for the Unborn and Their Mothers

“...don't kid yourself. Keep the baby - I have no other advice for you. Children are the best thing in the world.”
― Elvira Baryakina, White Shanghai

“Abortion is...
One more heart that will never beat again.
Two more eyes that will never see light.
Two more hands that will never touch or feel.
Two more legs that will never run for miles.
Two more lips that will never speak a word.
One more mouth that will never know a smile.”
― Queen Susan the Gentle's friend

“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

“What terrible splashing!’ the elephant frowned.
‘I can’t let my very small persons get drowned.
I’ve GOT to protect them. I’m bigger than they.”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

“The abortion isn’t what they(conservative pro-life men of 1940s) are thinking
about; they’re really thinking about sex. They’re really thinking
about love and reducing it to its most mechanical aspects—that is to
say, the mechanical fact of intercourse as a specific act to make
children in this world, and thinking of its use in any other way as
wrong and wicked. They are determined to reduce women’s normal sexual
responses, to end them, really, when we’ve just had a couple of
decades of admitting them.”
― Grace Paley, Just As I Thought

“A cell.

An accident.

A person who would’ve been miserable anyway.
An appointment.

A religious order.

An expense.

A political debate.

Anything but a soul. “Why?”

I don’t care who fights for my life.

I care that they do.
They aren’t sure

When my life starts,

But they tell me when it ends.

My body, my rights.

Somebody, where’s mine?

I wasn’t going to come out

As a different thing.

So why am I treated

Like a different thing?

They knew what I’d be,”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“A person’s a person, no matter how small!
And you very small persons will NOT have to die
If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

“The foetus is the property of the entire society.Anyone having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity.”
― Nicolae Ceausescu

“Careful to devalue life in your youth. The young may very well devalue you when you are old.”
― A.E. Samaan

“Some poor little person who’s shaking with fear
That he’ll blow in the pool! He’s no way to steer!
I’ll just have to save him. Because, after all,
A person’s a person, no matter how small.”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

“Should I put this speck down…?’ Horton thought with alarm.
‘If I do, these small persons may come to great harm.
I CAN’T put it down. And I WON’T! After all,
A person’s a person. No matter how small.”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

“Please don’t harm all my little folks, who
Have as much right to live as us bigger folks do!”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

“Of course,’ Horton answered. ‘Of course I will stick.
I’ll stick by you small folks through thin and through thick!”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

“Do you see what I mean?…
They’ve proved they ARE persons, no matter how small,
And their whole world was saved by the Smallest of All!”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

“Justices in the United States believe that their duty is to uphold the Constitution, but if they do not understand that the authority of the Constitution itself rests upon the inalienable natural rights of all human beings, then they not only undermine the Constitution, which they are sworn to uphold but also turn themselves into wielders of arbitrary power. Regrettably, this misuse of power occurred in both the Dred Scott decision and in the Roe v. Wade decision (and its subsequent interpretation in cases such as Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Robert P. Casey).”
― Robert J. Spitzer, Ten Universal Principles: A Brief Philosophy of the Life Issues

“It's amazing how gung ho he is about saving the lives of fetuses, but then he turns a blind eye to all the actual humans DYING right in front of him.”
― Abdi Nazemian, Like a Love Story

“For all the drama, romance and seeming magic of childbearing, what happy expectant parents are really celebrating is nothing more than a parasite-host relationship. At the moment of conception, an effectively alien creature commandeers the mother's womb and uses it as a sort of beachhead from which to seize control of her entire body.”
― Jeffrey Kluger, The Narcissist Next Door: Understanding the Monster in Your Family, in Your Office, in Your Bed--in Your World

“It is not patriarchal to hold the door for a lady, It is not cowardly to leave your seat to the elderly. But it is barbaric to harass a breastfeeding mother, And prehistoric to force a woman carry a pregnancy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“... the Wings follow a code that has them walking against the flow in the belief that every life deserves to be fought for, cherished, and protected.”
― Elizabeth D. Marie, These Mortal Wings

“The sensation of a life being ripped away is an indescribable horror.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner

“Dehumanizing a baby who would be valued if healthy hosts moral and scientific dilemmas.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner

“As I see it, there are two major problems with the way moral issues are deliberated and acted upon in modern Christian (and especially Protestant) circles. First, a strange phenomenon has occurred in which Christians have generally subordinated or ceased asking entirely the vital questions “Which course of action is most consistent with my identity as a disciple of Jesus Christ?” and “What does God require of me?” These questions have been replaced with “What is the most effective way to achieve the ends I desire?” Or, put less cynically, “How can we most efficiently transform the world for God?” In other words, many modern Christians have tended to prioritize effectiveness over faithfulness.”
― Rob Arner, Consistently Pro-Life: The Ethics of Bloodshed in Ancient Christianity

“The consistent ethic of life of the gospel of Jesus is, I contend, neither “liberal” nor “conservative,” for it cuts across all human ideological distinctions, challenging all to uphold the dignity and value of each human person from conception to death.”
― Rob Arner, Consistently Pro-Life: The Ethics of Bloodshed in Ancient Christianity