#abortion

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#attitudes #crime #curriculum #defense #family

One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice. ↗

— William P. Leahy

#biggest #birth #birth control #civil #civil rights

I don't think the objective of an abortion clinic is to try to talk women out of having the procedure. That obviously would not be positive for their bottom line. ↗

— Bob McDonnell

#bottom #bottom line #clinic #having #i

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#about #among #applying #catholics #death

In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#desperate #economic #economic times #goes #people

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#aid #campaign #care #countries #distracted

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility. ↗

— Antonin Scalia

#adopt #again #bring #citizens #constitution

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#because #between #child #destroyer #greatest

The Church's stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists at heart, there is little wonder that it causes unease. I wish various fathers would quit trying to defend it by saying that the world can support 40 billion. I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding... ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#birth-control #sanctity-of-life #life

Spontaneous abortion: the opposite of immaculate conception. God has compensated for Christianity’s violent history by revealing that innocent blood does not have to be spilt. ↗

— Bauvard

#conception #funny #god #humor #funny