These powerful pro-life quotes emphasize the importance of preserving the sanctity of life and the importance of protecting the unborn. Whether you're looking for inspiration or want to learn more about the pro-life position, these quotes will provide insight into the beliefs of those who support the pro-life position.
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Pro-life quotes from political figures
"The cause of life is the leading cause of our time, and this struggle between the gospel of life and the culture of death will determine the destiny of mankind."
– Peter Garrett, Member of the Australian House of Representatives
“I served in the military for 21 years, not to take life, but to protect life. This includes the unborn. An average of 900 African American babies are killed per day. Since 1973, 19 million black American babies have been killed due to abortion. I find it ironic that the people who want to protect my life and my rights want to kill me at birth. I am appalled by this bill (AZ HB 2696), which is a direct attack on the sanctity of life not only for black Americans, but for all Americans.
– Walt Blackman, Arizona state representative and the first black Republican elected to the Arizona state legislature
“I believe our society has a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and the weak. And I believe that our nation should make it a goal for unborn children to be welcomed into life and protected by law.
– President George W. Bush
"Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and sanctify two more: that of the adoptive parents."
– President George W. Bush
"The right to life is not a woman's issue. God is the giver of life and only He can make choices about life. It is always a reward to have life … only God gives and takes away life.”
– Margaret Heckler, former Minister for Health, Social Care and Education
"It's time to recognize that the Supreme Court is not the ultimate being and change policy to be pro-life and protect children instead of ripping off their body parts and selling them like they're Buick parts."
– Mike Huckabee, American politician, Christian priest and political commentator
"I noticed that everyone who is pro-abortion has already been born."
– President Ronald Reagan
"We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life—the unborn—without diminishing the value of all human life."
– President Ronald Reagan
Pro-life quotes from apologists, pastors and theologians
"For a Christian to speak or act publicly in a pro-choice manner is a scandal to the gospel and the name of Jesus Christ."
– Fr. Frank Pavone, Director, Priests for Life
"The abortion industry kills as many black people every four days as the Klan killed in 150 years."
– John Piper, theologian, writer, pastor and chancellor of Bethlehem College and Seminary
“Use your imagination to see what abortion really is! A struggle against that social stupor that gripped Nazi Germany—the sense that the problem is so vast and so terrifying and so beyond our control that I simply cannot be wrong to let it go. Use your imagination to see and feel what really goes on behind these sterile clinic doors. If you could see every little work of God and what it looks like when crushed, poisoned, or starved, you'd say it couldn't happen. Civilized people don't do that! Children will not be saved and God's work honored without an act of sustained empathetic imagination. Otherwise, it is far from sight and consciousness - just like Auschwitz. It just can't happen and that's why we act like it's not."
– John Piper, theologian, writer, pastor and chancellor of Bethlehem College and Seminary
“One thing people have gotten tired of hearing me talk about in the last 20 years is the genocide of black people. It has killed more black people than all other causes of death combined. Black women make up 12% of the population, but 36% of the abortions. It started with Margaret Sanger and her Negro Project and the desire to eliminate unwanted races.
– Dr Voddie Bauchum, Pastor, Author and Dean of Theology at the African Christian University in Zambia
“If the unborn is not a human person, no justification for abortion is needed. However, if the unborn is a human person, there is no justification for abortion."
– Greg Kukle, Christian apologist and founder of Stand to Reason
"I'm increasingly suspicious that shadow language is being used because many political leaders either don't support abortion and are afraid to say so, or because they want to pretend that moral evil is somehow morally good."
- Cardinal Roger Mahoney, on the phrase "a woman's right to choose..."
"Some people argue that changing the laws will not eliminate abortion. However, it is forgotten that the law is the great teacher. Children grow up believing that if a practice is legal, it must be moral.
– Cardinal John O'Connor
“Thirty-eight states treat the killing of an unborn child as a form of murder. They have so called "fetal killing laws". It is illegal to take the life of an unborn child if the mother wants the baby, but it is legal to take the life of the unborn if she does not want it. We reject this right to define personhood in the case of Nazi anti-Semitism, race-based slavery in the Confederacy, and the Soviet Gulag. When we define the humanity of the unborn at the will of the powerful, we know what we are doing.
– John Piper, theologian, writer, pastor and chancellor of Bethlehem College and Seminary
“My goal is to hasten the day when being publicly pro-choice will be just as reprehensible as being publicly racist. Racism can… lead to the killing of innocent people. But abortion always results in the killing of innocent people.
– John Piper, theologian, writer, pastor and chancellor of Bethlehem College and Seminary
"There is no more precious gift you can give than life. Our forefathers … fought and bled to create in this land a nation dedicated to the premise that all men are created equal.”
– Dr. Pat Robertson, televangelist and political commentator
"I tried to understand the arguments from the so-called 'pro-choice' position." Most of them might seem very defensible on the surface. But when you dig a little below the surface, you see how ridiculous these claims become. Taking a person's life is not "health care".
– Randy Smith, pastor and founder of Christian Travel Study ProgramsPro-life quotes from historical and religious figures
“The vast difference between formed and unformed does not matter to us. Anyone who intentionally commits an abortion is punishable by murder.
– Saint Basil, 1st century Greek bishop of Cappadocia, Asia Minor
“The fetus, though confined in its mother's womb, is already a human being, and it is a monstrous crime to be robbed of the life it has not yet begun to enjoy. If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house than in the field, since a man's house is his safest refuge, surely it must be thought more cruel to destroy a fetus in the womb before it is appeared light.”
– Jean Calvin, French theologian, pastor and reformer
"Whatever the motive, the love of peace or the desire to save the unborn innocent from suffering, it is the woman who commits the crime who is terribly guilty. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death.”
– Susan B. Anthony
"She who willfully destroys a fetus must suffer the penalty of murder. Moreover, those who help her, who give abortifacients to destroy a child conceived in the womb, are the murderers themselves, as well as those who receive the poisons.
– Basil of Caesarea, canons 118.2
“There are two paths: the path of life and the path of death, and the difference between these two paths is great. Therefore do not kill a child by abortion and do not kill a newborn.”
– Didache, Didache 1.1; 2.2
“To love your neighbor more than your life. You will not kill a child through abortion. You will not kill what has already been created.
- The Epistle of Barnabas, The Epistle of Barnabas 19.5
Life Support Quotes from Authors and Educators
“There was a time when our enemies wore white hoodies and drove old pickup trucks. But today they wear white lab coats and drive jaguars. For our (black) community, the real weapon of mass destruction is the vacuum cleaner at the local Planned Parenthood.
– Dr. Johnny Hunter, Speaker, Educator and President of Global Life & Family Mission
“Some pro-choice advocates claim to base their beliefs on the Bible. They argue that the Scriptures do not forbid abortion. They are wrong. In fact, the Bible categorically forbids the killing of innocent people (Exodus 20:13) and clearly regards the unborn as human beings worthy of protection (21:22–25).”
– Randy Alcorn, author and founder of Eternal Perspective Ministries
“I could feel the baby being ripped from my insides. It was really painful... I was sitting for three quarters of the operation... In the cylinder I saw pieces of my little child floating in a pool of blood. I screamed and jumped off the table… I just couldn't stop throwing up…”
– Randy Alcorn, excerpted from Why Pro-Life? Care of unborn children and their mothers
“Abortion is a profoundly immoral and unjust act: the taking of innocent human life in its most defenseless form. As Christians committed to justice and righteousness, we cannot stand by and simply let this happen.
– Dr. James Anderson, Author
“Years of war resulted in the deaths of 115,000 Canadians. 30 years of 'reproductive rights' through abortion have resulted in the deaths of 2 million Canadians. Be against abortion.
- Unknown author
"If a woman plans to terminate her pregnancy, she usually calls the life inside her a 'fetus.' But if she intends to bear, love and care for the little one, she affectionately calls it "my baby."
– Dr. James K. Dobson, author and founder of Focus on the Family
“For too long the pro-life movement has been screaming conclusions instead of establishing facts. Focusing on the status of the unborn brings moral clarity to the abortion debate.”
– Scott Klussendorf, author and president of the Life Changing Institute
“No woman or man has the right to have a private conversation with a doctor to plot how to end someone else's life. If the unborn are people, then we must protect them.
– David Platt, pastor, author and founder of Radical
“The idea of natural law is to preserve life, not to kill it; and a constitutional right cannot supersede the natural right to life.”
– Robert J. Spitzer, author
Pro-life quotes from activists and non-profits
“More than forty years ago, the Supreme Court told a lie and codified child victimization into law. Since then, the four-decade period has left behind millions of sacrificed children while the church has remained largely silent.
– End abortion now
"Pro-lifers need to call out abortion for what it is -- murder -- because we do no one a favor by minimizing the viciousness of sin."
- Babies are still killed here - documentary
"My child lives on in the face of every baby whose mother and father were encouraged to choose life because I chose to share my tragedy."
– Olivia Gans, American Victims of Abortion
"The fact that the abortion pill will be imported from the People's Republic of China ... is a human rights issue because the Chinese government ... relies heavily on compulsory abortion."
– Douglas Johnson, Legislative Director of the National Right to Life Committee
"Abortion and racism are symptoms of a fundamental human error. The mistake is to think that when someone gets in the way of our desires, we can justify cutting that person out of our lives.
– Dr. Alveda King, American activist and writer, niece of Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Abortion in the United States is fundamentally racist. Planned Parenthood was founded by a KKK-supporting, Hitler-admiring eugenicist who launched the "Negro Project" to limit the black birthrate. Today, about 75% of abortion clinics are in minority neighborhoods, and black women account for a grossly disproportionate number of abortions.
– Debbie Vandenboom, wife, mother and advocate for women, children and newborns.
Pro-life quotes from historians and scientists
"I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence, pro-choice arguments are not. It is a cultural, historical fact.”
– Stanley Fish, American writer and lawyer
“The most important thing about abortion legislation in biblical law is that there is none. It was so unthinkable that an Israeli woman would desire an abortion that there was no need to mention this crime in the penal code. All that was needed to prohibit abortion was the commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' (Ex. 20:13)."
– Meredith Klein, American theologian and Old Testament scholar
"The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" begins with "life," and "life" begins with conception."
– AE Samaan, Investigative Historian
Quotes about life from medical professionals
“The medical profession has a special responsibility to protect and preserve human life from the moment of conception. This responsibility stems not only from our scientific knowledge but also from our commitment to the sanctity of life.”
- Dr. John S. Wilke, physician, author, and anti-abortion activist
“The right to life is the first right mentioned in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Every human being, born or unborn, is entitled to this fundamental right.”
- Dr. Jerome Lejeune, French pediatrician and geneticist
"The life of the unborn is of the same value as the life of the mother, and any law that disregards this is unjust and must be opposed."
– Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD, physician, bioethicist, and academic
Pro-life quotes from celebrities
"Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents."
– Michael Aston, record producer 117
“What I know is true. Abortion is an atrocity. Those who practice or praise it are either damned idiots, deluded fools, or treacherous devils.
– Christopher Titus, American comedian
Pro-Life quotes from landmark documents
"The child, because of higher physical and mental immaturity, needs special guarantees and care, including adequate legal protection, both before and after birth."
– United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child, November 1959
"The difference between the way of life and the way of death is great. Therefore do not kill a child by abortion and do not kill a newborn.”
– Didache, apostolic moral teachings composed in the late first century AD.
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