Hubert H. Humphrey speech, November 4, 1977
The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Richard A. Viguerie, conservative activist, Conservatives Betrayed (Bonus Books), 2006
Conservatives have every reason to believe the death penalty system is no different from any politicized, costly, inefficient, bureaucratic, government-run operation, which we conservatives know are rife with injustice . . . support for [capital punishment] undermines our arguments against abortion, euthanasia, and related practices.
Maria Vitale, LifeNews.com Editorial Columnist, March 29, 2010, “Abortion's Slippery Slope Led to Killing Terri Schiavo”
When I was in seventh grade, our pro-life teacher drew a line on the blackboard connecting the word ‘abortion’ with the word ‘euthanasia.’ The killing of pre-born children leads to the killing of older people, people with disabilities, and people who are ill. Life is a tapestry, and when one thread has been pulled out by advocates of abortion, the rest of the threads begin to unravel.
Sharon Lerner, “Nowhere to Hyde,” The Nation, April 19, 2010
The months of debate and politicking around the healthcare overhaul provided a glimpse of the political strength of the prochoice movement that hasn't been possible for years. The picture that emerged wasn't pretty, as supporters of choice found that they don't have the influence many assumed they did. . . . after the frenzied horse-trading that finally produced a law, women across the country were left with less access to the procedure and a seriously weakened power base from which to protect and advocate for abortion rights. ‘It's an enormous setback,’ says Laurie Rubiner, vice president for public policy for [Planned Parenthood].
Colman McCarthy, columnist, Washington Post, April 11, 1992
Both the military ethic and the abortion ethic are grounded in the same belief: Life is cheap. Iraqi life. Fetal life. . . . The language of the war lobby and the abortion lobby is from the same glossary of evasions. No one likes war, say the generals. No one likes abortions, says NOW. But let's keep the killing option, just in case. And cases keep coming. If Iraqis are causing trouble, or Libyans, Grenadans or Panamanians, bomb them. If fetuses pose problems, destroy them.
Edward Allred, millionaire abortion doctor, San Diego Union, October 12, 1980
Population control is too important to be stopped by some right wing pro-life types. Take the new influx of Hispanic immigrants. Their lack of respect for democracy and social order is frightening. I hope I can do something to stem that tide; I'd set up a clinic in Mexico for free if I could.
Mary Meehan, “Abortion: The Left Has Betrayed the Sanctity of Life: Consistency Demands Concern for the Unborn," The Progressive, September, 1980
Some of us who went through the anti-war struggles of the 1960s and early 1970s are now active in the right-to-life movement . . . We are moved by what pro-life feminists call the "consistency thing" – the belief that respect for human life demands opposition to abortion, capital punishment, euthanasia, and war. We don't think we have either the luxury or the right to choose some types of killing and say that they are all right, while others are not. A human life is a human life; and if equality means anything, it means that society may not value some human lives over others.
James Wilson, United States Supreme Court Justice, signer of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, "Lectures on Law," 1791
With consistency, beautiful and undeviating, human life from its commencement to its close, is protected by common law. . . . By law it is protected not only from immediate destruction, but from every degree of actual violence.
LeRoy Carhart, M.D, specialist in late-term abortions, CBS Evening News, Dec. 4, 2009
I totally believe in this cause every bit as much as I did believe every morning when I got up in the military that I was doing the right thing.
Juli Loesch, founder, Prolifers for Survival. June 18, 1981, tape recording
I started into this kind of agitation thinking I was going to be a bridge-builder -- you know, a bridge-builder between peace and pro-life, a bridge-builder between feminism and pro-life. And what I experienced in the first few years of this [was] sometimes attracting bricks from both the right and the left coming at me simultaneously. And where those bricks came from was from the rift in the wall – from people's own consciences tearing in two . . . And it pleases me now to see that instead of being a bridge-builder, I started off being a wall-breaker. You take all those loose bricks, and that's what you make the bridge out of.
Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life
Peace is more than the absence of war. The foundation of peace is justice, that everyone’s rights are protected and everyone’s dignity is recognized. . . . To fight abortion, therefore, is one of the ways that we work for peace. Abortion completely oppresses and diminishes the rights of the child who is killed. Rather than fostering right relationships, it destroys them, starting with the most basic relationship between a mother and her own child.
Erma Clardy Craven, social worker, Abortion and Social Justice, Sheed & Ward, 1972
It takes little imagination to see that the unborn Black baby is the real object of many abortionists. Except for the privilege of aborting herself, the Black woman and her family must fight for every other social and economic privilege. This move toward the free application of a non-right (abortion) for those whose real need is equal human rights and opportunities is benumbing the social conscience of America into unquestioningly accepting the ‘smoke screen’ of abortion. The quality of life for the poor, the Black and the oppressed will not be served by destroying their children.
Sam Brownback, Republican United States Senator, U.S. News and World Report, April 11, 2005. p. 34
If we're trying to establish a culture of life, it's difficult to have the state sponsoring executions.
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