Some Pro-Life Quotations

"All those in favor of abortion have already been born."
President Ronald Reagan

"In Germany, they came first for the Communists; I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Jews; I did not speak out because I was not a Jew; Then they came to fetch the workers, members of the trade unions; I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Afterwards, they came for the Catholics; I did not say anything because I was a Protestant. Eventually, they came for me, and there was no one left to speak."
Martin Niemoller

"Always put justice above the law, and when the law is unjust change it directly."
William Penn

"Those who make abortions possible by law such as legislators and those who promote, defend and elect these same legislators cannot separate themselves totally from that guilt which accompanies this horrendous crime."
Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, 1980

"It is a great poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
Mother Teresa of Calcutta

"Abortion is a crime that kills not only the child, but the consciences of all involved."
Mother Teresa of Calcutta

"I believe, that when statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos."
Saint Thomas More

"How can we respect the lives of the elderly, the handicapped and the poor, how can we draw back in horror from the prospect of nuclear destruction, while we continue to destroy human life before it emerges from the mother's womb."
Catholic Bishops of N.Y. State, 1984

"I would like to say a special word to women who have had an abortion. The Church is aware of the many factors which may have influenced your decision, and she does not doubt that in many cases it was a painful and even shattering decision. The wound in your heart may not have healed. Certainly what happened was and remains terribly wrong. But do not give in to discouragement and do not lose hope. Try rather to understand what happened and face it honestly.

If you have not already done so, give yourselves over with humility and trust to repentance. The Father of mercies is ready to give you His forgiveness and His peace in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. You will come to understand that nothing is definitively lost and you will be able to ask forgiveness from your child, who is now living in the Lord."
Pope John Paul II, The Gospel of Life (No. 99)

"As believers how can we fail to see that abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide are a terrible rejection of God's gift of life and love? And as believers, how can we fail to see the duty to surround the sick and those in distress with the warmth of our affection and support that will help them always to embrace life."
Pope John Paul II, Homily at Saint Louis, Missouri on January 27, 1999

"Today the world has become the arena of the battle for life. The struggle between the civilization of life and the civilization of death continues. A civilization which rejected the defenseless would deserve to be called a barbarian civilization, even though it had great successes in the field of economics, technology, art and science. A nation which kills its own children is a nation without a future."
Pope John Paul II, Homily at Kalisz, Poland on June 4, 1997

"We urge our fellow citizens to see beyond party politics, to analyze campaign rhetoric critically and to choose their political leaders according to principle, not party affiliation or mere self-interest."
NCCB, Living the Gospel of Life: A Challenge to American Catholics

"Catholic public officials who disregard Church teaching on the inviolability of the human person indirectly collude in the taking of innocent human life."
NCCB, Living the Gospel of Life: A Challenge to American Catholics

"No public official, especially on claiming to be a faithful and serious Catholic, can responsibly advocate for or actively support direct attacks on innocent human life."
NCCB, Living the Gospel of Life: A Challenge to American Catholics

"The Gospel of Life must be proclaimed, and human life defended, in all places and all times. The arena for moral responsibility includes not only the halls of government, but the voting booth as well. Laws that permit and euthanasia and assisted suicide are profoundly unjust, and we should work peacefully and tirelessly to oppose and change them."
NCCB, Living the Gospel of Life: A Challenge to American Catholics

"As Americans, as Catholics and as pastors of our people, we [bishops]...call our fellow citizens back to our country's founding principles, and most especially to renew our national respect for the rights of those who are unborn, weak, disabled and terminally ill. Real freedom rests on the inviolability of every person as a child of God."
NCCB, Living the Gospel of Life: A Challenge to American Catholics

"As we tinker with the beginning, the end and even the intimate cell structure of life, we tinker with our own identity as a free nation dedicated to the dignity of the human person. When American political life becomes an experiment on people rather than for and by them, it will be no longer worth conducting. We are arguably moving closer to that day."
NCCB, Living the Gospel of Life: A Challenge to American Catholics

"Procreative techniques which turn embryos into objects and mechanically substitute the loving embrace of husband and wife violate human dignity and treat life as a product. No matter how positive their intentions, these techniques advance the dangerous tendency to reduce human life to mere material which can be manipulated."
Archbishop Charles Chaput, Archbishop of Denver, On Human Life

"The National Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C. is a shiny black wall that stretches 492 feet and lists the names of the 58,022 known Americans killed in that war. If such a wall listed the names of the children killed by abortion since 1973, the wall would be about 60 miles long! The casualties of all our wars put together are fewer than the casualties from abortion in a single year."
Religious Life Magazine: December 1999