40 Abortion Quotes from Pro-life POV

Quotes on abortion

Against abortion quotes

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Here are some thoughtful abortion quotes that teach us to value human life more.

• "The very first day that President [Barack] Obama was inaugurated, his first act as a president was to rescind that ban on third-trimester abortions. And he's even carried it further. Now, even if the baby is born alive, they have the right to kill that baby. It is an abomination." — Ted Cruz

• "I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born." — Ronald Reagan

• "And there is the matter of abortion. We must with calmness and resolve help the vast majority of our fellow Americans understand that the more than 112 million abortions performed in America in 1980 amount to a great moral evil, an assault on the sacredness of human life." — Ronald Reagan

• "Abortion is the only event that modern liberals think too violent and obscene to portray on TV. This is not because they are squeamish or prudish. It is because if people knew what Abortion really looked like, it would destroy their pretence that it is a civilized answer to the problem of what to do about unwanted babies." — Peter Hitchens

• "The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us.  Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide." — Saint Basil

• "A person's a person, no matter how small." — Dr. Seuss

• "Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get." — Gwendolyn Brooks

• "While there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in America each year are a disgrace to civilization." — Margaret Sanger

• "When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit." — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• "Like an animal caught in a trap, trying to gnaw off its own leg, a woman who seeks abortion is trying to escape a desperate situation by an act of violence and self-loss. Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate." — Frederica Mathewes-Green

• "It is horrific even to think that there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day" — Pope Francis

• "Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born." — Ronald Reagan

• "Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life." — Jerry Weller

• "Abortion is either OK or it's not." — Peggy Noonan

• "To earlier feminists who had fought for the vote and for fair treatment in the workplace, it had seemed obvious that the ready availability of abortion would facilitate the sexual exploitation of women." — Mary Ann Glendon

• "No one is pro-abortion." — Barack Obama

• "Abortion is in violation of God-given life." — Richard Halverson

• "I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty." — Tim Kaine

• "The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks." — Barbara Ehrenreich

• "If the unborn is a human person, no justification for abortion is adequate." — Greg Koukl

Bible quotes on abortion

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The following abortion quotes are taken from the Holy Bible.

• 13 “You shall not murder.” — Exodus 20:13

• 13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. — Psalm 139:13-16

• 13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. — Psalm 139:13-16

• 5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” — Jeremiah 1:5

• 27 If she has made herself impure and been unfaithful to her husband, this will be the result: When she is made to drink the water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering, it will enter her, her abdomen will swell and her womb will miscarry, and she will become a curse. 28 If, however, the woman has not made herself impure, but is clean, she will be cleared of guilt and will be able to have children. — Numbers 5:27-28

• 3 Children are a heritage from the LORD, offspring a reward from him. 4 Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one’s youth. 5 Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their opponents in court. — Psalm 127:3-5

• 16 There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to him: 17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, 18 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, 19 a false witness who pours out lies and a person who stirs up conflict in the community. — Proverbs 6:16-19

• 27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. — Genesis 1:27

• 15 Did not he who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us both within our mothers? — Job 31:15

• 10 From birth I was cast on you; from my mother’s womb you have been my God. — Psalm 22:10

• "Every 36 seconds in America a woman lays her body down forced to choose abortion out of a lack of practical resources and emotional support. Abortion is a reflection that society has failed women." — Patricia Heaton

Mother Teresa quotes on abortion

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We’ve also got you covered with Mother Teresa’s abortion quotes.

• "Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to  accept any child who would be aborted, and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child, and be loved by the child. From our children's home in Calcutta alone, we have saved over 3,000 children from abortions. These children have brought such love and joy to their adopting parents, and have grown up so full of love and joy!"

• "Any country that accepts abortion, is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what it wants."

• "It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."

• "America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts -- a child -- as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience. It has nominally accorded mothers unfettered dominion over the independent lives of their physically dependent sons and daughters" And, in granting this unconscionable power, it has exposed many women to unjust and selfish demands from their husbands or other sexual partners. Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or a sovereign." (Mother Teresa — "Notable and Quotable," Wall Street Journal, 2/25/94, p. A14)

• "But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child - a direct killing of the innocent child - murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts. Jesus gave even his life to love us. So the mother who is thinking of abortion, should be helped to love - that is, to give until it hurts her plans, or her free time, to respect the life of her child. The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts. By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems. And by abortion, the father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. That father is likely to put other women into the same trouble. So abortion just leads to more abortion. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching the people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. That is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion. "

• "What is taking place in America," she said, "is a war against the child. And if we accept that the mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another." February 1997 - National Prayer Breakfast in Washington attended by the President and the First Lady

• “Abortion has become the greatest destroyer of peace, because it destroys two lives, the life of the child and the conscience of the mother,” she said. " . . . Let us thank our parents for wanting us, for loving us, for giving us the joy of living. . . . You are priceless to God himself.”

• “Abortion is profoundly anti-women. Three-quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers.”

• "Abortion is murder in the womb...A child is a gift of God. If you do not want him, give him to me." — Mother Teresa