Prolife Quotes

“Your religion should help you make the decision if you find yourself in that situation, but the policy should exist for you to have the right to make it in the first place.

When you say you can't do something because your religion forbids it, that's a good thing. When you say I can't do something because YOUR religion forbids it, that's a problem.”
― Jodi Picoult, A Spark of Light

“They’re not pro-life. You know what they are? They’re anti-woman. Simple as it gets, anti-woman. They don’t like them. They don’t like women. They believe a woman’s primary role is to function as a brood mare for the state.”
― George Carlin

“There’s a reason they call childbirth labor. Making a healthy baby takes effort: It requires foresight and self-denial and courage. It’s expensive and demanding and tiring. You have to learn new things, change many habits, possibly deal with complicated medical situations, make difficult decisions, and undergo stressful ordeals. I had a wisdom tooth pulled without Novocaine while I was pregnant—it hurt a lot and seemed to go on forever. The kindness of the very young dental assistant, holding back my hair as I spat blood into a bowl, will stay with me for the rest of my life. Pregnant women do such things, and much harder things, all the time. For example, they give birth, which is somewhere on the scale between painful and excruciating. Or they have a cesarean, as I did, which is major surgery. None of this is without risk of death or damage or trauma, including psychological trauma. To force girls and women to undergo all this against their will is to annihilate their humanity. When they undertake it by choice, we should all be grateful.”
― Katha Pollitt, Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights

“We are not pro-life simply because we are warding off death. We are pro-life to the extent that we are men and women for others, all others; to the extent that no human flesh is a stranger to us; to the extent that we can touch the hand of another in love, to the extent that for us there are no “others.”
― Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel

“We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?”
― Mother Teresa

“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!

“Grinding his teeth, he shoved his hands into the sudsy water and splashed it onto his face. Steam drifted above the pale suds, thin and insubstantial before dissipating. The scalding water burned his face, but the pain was worth it. It tethered him to reality and the reminder that he could not fail. Not again.

Please, please give me courage.

It was his heart’s cry and his soul’s plea. He needed the courage to stand strong. Needed the courage to speak up.”
― Madisyn Carlin, Shattered Revelation

“Each of us is made in the image of God. We are told He individually forms us, knitting us, to borrow from the verse you just read. He determines what color of eyes we’ll have, when we’ll say our first and last words, and when we’ll take our first and final steps. A baby is a human being even in the womb, milady.”
― Madisyn Carlin, Shattered Revelation

“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!

“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!

“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 story of humanity can be written as the struggle to acknowledge all human beings as human beings.”
― J.S.B. Morse, Everyone Agrees: Book I: Words, Ideas, and a Universal Morality

“Having the right to choose determines whether women will find an equal place at life’s table, whether children will be truly valued, and whether everyone’s personal liberties, privacy, and bodily integrity will be safeguarded against the ideology of the right.”
― Gloria Feldt

“If you're a pro-lifer, please remember: if life begins at conception, it sure as hell doesn't end at birth.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“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!

“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!

“We are called to fight for Biblical justice, Boden. It will be uncomfortable and even frightening at times because the world doesn’t take kindly to us speaking against it. What the world loves, we’re to hate. And what we love, the world hates. That’s what happens when we walk a different path and live in the light while they languish in the dark.”
― Madisyn Carlin, Shattered Revelation

“How was it possible for a heart to shatter in a million pieces with what felt like no hope of reconstruction?”
― Madisyn Carlin, Shattered Revelation

“It is my desire, by my presence and with my words, to pay tribute to your tireless work in defending and fostering the inviolability of innocent and defenseless human life from the moment of conception until the moment of natural death.”
― Cardinal Raymond Burke

“If a womb had a window, the world would sit up and take notice.”
― ALLENE VANOIRSCHOT, Daddy's Little Girl

“Where evil is measured more by the inconvenience of truth than by the reality of it.”
― Allene vanOirschot, Daddy's Little Girl

“When I first found out about Cerian’s deformity and made the choice to carry her to term, it felt like the destruction of my plans and hopes. It went against what I wanted. It limited me. But it was in this place of limitation that God showed me more of his love. Up until this point, the clamor of my desires and wishes had made me like a closed system centered in on myself, on my needs, flaws, and attributes. My life, even at times my religion, had revolved around achievement, reputation, and winning respect and approval from others.”
― Sarah C. Williams

“During the nine months I carried Cerian, God came close to me again unexpectedly, wild and beautiful, good and gracious. I touched his presence as I carried Cerian and as a result I realized that underneath all my other longings lay an aching desire for God himself and for his love. Cerian shamed my strength, and in her weakness and vulnerability, she showed me a way of intimacy. The beauty and completeness of her personhood nullified the value system to which I had subscribed for so long.”
― Sarah C. Williams, Perfectly Human: Nine Months with Cerian

“Abortion is the antithesis of womanhood.”
― Allene vanOirschot, Daddy's Little Girl

“God's beauty of life is found in the imperfect folds of every child.”
― Allene vanOirschot, Daddy's Little Girl

“By one sentence do mass killings in the world and womb begin: “They don’t look like us and don’t act like us: they’re not human.”
― Agona Apell

“What makes you human without your limbs, human without your nose and toes -- what makes you human without your ears makes the unborn me human without your form”
― Agona Apell

“Adhering to the fifth commandment, and the Catechism of the Catholic Church (“From its conception, the child has the right to life. Direct abortion, that is, abortion willed as an end or as a means, is a ‘criminal' practice (GS 27 #3), gravely contrary to the moral law, the Church imposes the canonical penalty of excommunication for this crime against human life.” n. 2322), I have always spoken out in my ministry as a Catholic priest and bishop against abortion. (Letter to Stefanno Gennarini)”
― Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo

“A baby dying in abortion wishes that mum and the doctor would come to its aid, little knowing that they are both around and direct the attack.”
― Agona Apell