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"A prediction: In coming
decades,
involuntary euthanasia will be commonplace in Europe, and Gen-Xers'
battles
to stay alive into old age will be treated with the same cold contempt
as they treated the silent screams of the unborn. Millions will be put
to sleep like aged and incontinent household pets. Since the 1960s, the
radical young have pleaded for a world free of the strictures of the
old
Christian morality. They are close to getting what they have demanded;
and my sense is that they will not like what they get."
Pat Buchanan
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"Never before has the
FDA approved
a drug intended to kill people."
Rep. Tom Coburn, on RU-486
"Any society which
does not insist
upon respect for all life must necessarily decay."
Albert Einstein
"God is the only one
who knows how
many children we should have, and we should be ready to accept them.
One
can't decide for oneself who comes into this world and who doesn't.
That
decision doesn't belong to us."
Mel Gibson
"Politicians argue for abortion largely because they do not want to spend the necessary money to
feed, clothe and educate more people... There are those who argue that the right to privacy is of
higher order than the right to life. I do not share that view... That was the premise of slavery.
You could not protest the existence or treatment of slaves on the plantation because that was
private and therefore outside of your right to concerned."
Jesse Louis Jackson Sr. (born October 8, 1941) 'How we respect life is the over-riding moral issue';
Right to Life News, January 1977
"Look back in
history, and not the
new revised history of the public schools, but at human history as it
really
unfolded; and you will find that when nations began to kill their own
children,
those nations are doomed. We not only kill our own young, we shout our
delight in this dark activity as some sort of new and wonderful act of
liberation from the stultifying mores of the past. Since the Scriptures
warn us against harming children, this is a very specific way to mock
God
and scream our defiance at the heavens, fists clenched tightly around a
condom, that symbol of the age. And we wonder why our children kill?"
Michael
Peirce
"Going around the
poor parts of the
world shoving birth-control pills down people's throats, hustling them
into abortion clinics, and giving them cheap prizes for getting
sterilized
is to assume that those people don't want babies as much as we do, that
they won't like those babies as well as we like ours, and that little
brown
and yellow babies are not as good as the adorable pink, rich kind.
American
children grow up to be valuable citizens. Bangladeshi children grow up
to be part of the world population problem. They just aren't giving
birth
to any Marky Marks or Howard Sterns in Dhaka."
P.J. O'Rourke, All the
Trouble
in the World, p.14
"The New York Times
and The Washington
Post chose to mark the silver anniversary of Roe vs. Wade with cover
stories
in their weekly magazines on the plight of "abortion providers," as
politesse
now terms the destroyers of incipient human lives. Forty million
abortions,
and we're supposed to worry about how tough it is to be an abortionist
these days. Neither article mentioned the profit motive, the angle that
usually preoccupies these liberal dailies. Abortion "providers" were
portrayed
as selfless humanitarians besieged by religious fanatics. They are, in
the words of Jack Hitt in the Times, "helping another person exercise a
constitutional right." Making money apparently has nothing to do with
their
willingness to do what most doctors shrink from doing."
Joseph Sobran, Roe v. Wade at 25
(1/98)
"Abortion has replaced socialism as
the chief moral fad of the progressive-minded. Socialism failed.
Abortion
works ... It is an act so foul that few people would defend it unless
they
knew large numbers currently agreed with them. Even so, it has to be
defended
in euphemisms... that obscure the concrete reality of scalding,
poisoning,
or mutilating a tiny living thing ..."
Joseph Sobran
"The chief art of our time is
lending
a gloss of glamour to sordid acts ... Abortion can't be portrayed as
the
cutting up of a living human being. It has to be presented abstractly,
as some sort of moral and constitutional achievement. The gross act is
etherealized into an "issue," pitting civic-minded people against the
boors.
No pictures, please. Only vulgar pro-lifers would want to force anyone
to watch."
Joseph Sobran, (6/29/95)
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