1.
Ronald Wilson Reagan -
“Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.”
2.
Pope Pius XI -
“However we may pity the mother whose health and even life imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent.”
3.
Russell M. Nelson -
“Abortion sheds that innocent blood. Now, as a servant of the Lord, I dutifully warn those who advocate and practice abortion that they incur the wrath of Almighty God, who declared, 'If men… hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her ... he shall be surely punished.'”
4.
Dallin H. Oaks -
“Our attitude toward abortion ... is fixed by our knowledge that according to an eternal plan all of the spirit children of God must come to this earth for a glorious purpose, and that individual identity began long before conception and will continue for all the eternities to come. We rely on the prophets of God who have told us that while there may be ‘rare’ exceptions, ‘the practice of elective abortion is fundamentally contrary to the Lord’s injunction, ‘Thou shalt not ... kill, nor do anything like unto it’”
5.
Neal A. Maxwell -
“Listen to these wounds of pain put in the form of questions to me by a young woman who had had two abortions: 'I wonder about the spirits of those I had aborted, if they were there, if they were hurt? I was under three months each time, but a mother feels life before she feels movement.' 'I wonder if they are lost and alone?' 'I wonder if they will ever have a body?' 'I wonder if I will ever have a chance again to bring those spirits back as mine?' Alas, brothers and sisters, 'wickedness never was happiness' (Alma 41:10).”
6.
Neal A. Maxwell -
“The great physician, Dr. Henry G. Armitage, Jr., states, 'Not without comment shall it come to pass that a state (so fretful for the preservation of the praying mantis but holding an unborn baby to be of no account) can send a spark of immortality swinging out into limbo and conspire with citizen and physician to turn a fragile, living object of simple innocence and complex wonder into a pathetic pulp and consign it by rude and peremptory passage to the furnace or sewer — unknown, unwanted [and] undefended.' He further questions how a woman as 'the fertile adornment of our race can be deluded into the notion that she is a mere poetress of unwanted luggage or be by blandishment seduced into believing that she has dominion over life not her own.' He says, 'An abortion is never commonplace, for the world holds no heartbreak like the death of innocence.'”
7.
Neal A. Maxwell -
“Ironically, as some people become harder, they use softer words to describe dark deeds. This, too, is part of being sedated by secularism. Needless abortion, for instance, is a 'reproductive health procedure, ...' 'Illegitimacy' gives way to the wholly sanitized words 'non-marital birth' or 'alternative parenting.'”
8.
Neal A. Maxwell -
“If the nearly one-and-a-half million babies aborted in America each year could, somehow, vote, chameleon candidates would find fresh reason to be concerned about abortion, whereas now they are unconcerned.”
9.
Neal A. Maxwell -
“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!'”
10.
Ursula K. LeGuin -
“The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior; power over women.”
11.
Harold B. Lee -
“... the sin of abortion, or the destruction of unborn children — lies somewhere a close kin to the crime of destroying human life and certainly to be condemned.”
12.
Florynce Kennedy -
“If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.”
13.
Carl Gunter -
“Inbreeding is how we get championship horses. Louisianna state representative, explaining why he was fighting a proposed anti-abortion bill that allowed abortion in cases of incest.”
14.
Carol Everett -
“Abortion is a skillfully marketed product sold to a woman at a crisis time in her life. If the product is defective, she can not return it for a refund.”
15.
Ronald Butt -
“For nearly 2,000 years of Christian civilization, taking the life of an unborn child was regarded as a vile and heinous moral offense which degraded humanity.... Abortions to avoid illegitimate births, or otherwise for convenience, were performed with a secrecy that was as much the mark of the shame attaching to the deed as a consequence of its illegality.”
16.
Ezra Taft Benson -
“And so today, the undermining of the home and family is on the increase, with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the home and create rebellion among the children. [Isaiah] describes the condition when [he] states, 'As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them.' and then these words follow—and consider these words seriously when you think of those political leaders who are promoting birth control and abortion: 'O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.' Isaiah 3:12”
17.
Saint Basil the Great -
“A woman who intentionally destroys a fetus is guilty of murder. And we do not even talk about the fine distinction as to its being completely formed or unformed.”
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