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Pro Life Quotes Archive
"...it hurts...some days are good
days but lately my babies [aborted two] have been on my mind an
awful lot. I guess because one of their birthdays would have been
this month or next month. I don’t even know for sure how far along
I was. The guilt just really hurts worse some days..."
[the words of a woman who
experienced abortion 20 and 16 years ago]
Abortion is forever...
Can politicians tell someone else not to kill? Rev. John Malloy "Most notably, the difference in
family breakdown risk between married and cohabiting couples is sufficient that
even the poorest 20 per cent of married couples are more stable than the richest
20 per cent of cohabiting couples."
UK's Millennium Cohort Study A nation that permits abortion at
any stage, including the practice of partially delivering a baby into the world
in order to destroy it brutally, has so deadened its conscience that it is no
longer horrified at the thought of embryonic stem cell research, which has
rightly been called Frankensteinien.”
Archbishop Raymond Burke
Fertility expert Lord Winston of Great Britain Abortion, buggery, contraception, divorce, euthanasia, radical feminism, genetic experimentation and mutilation, called seven “sacraments” of (the American Democrat) party Bishop Thomas Doran "We are realizing the worst prophecies of aging
and demographic implosion, and European politicians are seeing this with alarm,"
said the Cardinal. "The myth of over-population has collapsed."
Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo
"We have become a Culture of Rejection,....In 1950, for every 100 babies born, only 12 experienced the rejection of their parents – either through out-of-wedlock birth and their parents left, or because their parents divorced. In 2000, for every 100 born, it's 60...On top of that, we've added another form of rejection that's not in the figures – and that's abortion. Pat Fagan The belief that autonomy is such a high value that it trumps the sanctity of human life is one of the foundational lies that is destroying our culture our country and our world Right to Life New Zealand If physicians were currently ignoring the law (In the Netherlands) against murder, why would they obey laws governing euthanasia? Margaret A. Somerville
"Assisted suicide" is both oxymoron and euphemism. Suicide is an intensely personal, individual and solitary act. The "assistant" does not put his life at stake. It more accurately ought to be called "state-sanctioned murder. The morality of care for the sick and aging in our society bears witness to how we see ourselves and the world we want our children to inhabit. How we answer this question tells us more about how we live than how we die, and tells us, literally, who cares... The ethics of "assisted suicide" lubricates the descent on that slippery slope, ever more dangerous as an increasingly geriatric society anticipates a crisis in long-term care. Suzanne Fields Tolle numerum omnibus rebus et
omnia pereunt. Archbishop of Seville (560–636 AD)
Dr Philip Nitschke Suicide Provider There is something awfully sad and strange about a culture in which teenage sex is condoned so long as it is "safe," while teenage smoking is denounced as categorically wrong. Sex has become a mere issue of health and the law, while morality is reserved for tobacco. Jeff Jacoby In ancient Greece, babies with disabilities were left out in the elements to die. We in America rely on prenatal genetic testing to make our selections in private, but the effect on society is the same. Patricia E. Bauer "Instead of banning smacking which will undermine the authority of all parents why doesn't New Zealand ban the real child violence of abortion" Right to Life New Zealand "Tolerance once meant an attitude of patience and forbearance toward those who failed to live up to social ideals; the new Tolerance means denying the existence of such ideals. Nobody once supposed that tolerance could replace primary virtues such as honesty, fidelity and courage. But exposed to the cultural poisons of recent decades, tolerance has now mutated into something troublingly different. It is now not only one of the primary virtues; it is the primary virtue, the possession of which excuses man, woman and child from the cultivation of any other virtue. This new Tolerance is positively deceptive. It is deceptive in that it elides the difference between tolerance and acceptance, deceptive in that it provides rhetorical cover for the ideological ambitions of those who advance it, deceptive in that it justifies complete intolerance towards any who would frustrate those ambitions, and deceptive in that it hides the intolerably high costs it imposes on society." Bryce Christensen, Ph.D Right to Life New Zealand is concerned by a British Lancet study that found that between August 1999 and July 2000 for every baby who died within a year of birth in Flanders (the Dutch speaking region of Belgium), paediatricians who responded in the study, admitted they had taken "end of life" decisions in more than half the cases. In 2003 Belgium passed a law legalising euthanasia which allows adults who are suffering "constant and unbearable physical or psychological pain", and who are sufficiently conscious, to make the request to die. However, in this country is it illegal to put infants to death. This is of grave concern, showing that legislation that legalises euthanasia for adults is already extending to the illegal euthanasia of infants. As bad as this may seem we now ask, who is next? Right to Life New Zealand Attempting to make a distinction between ‘therapeutic’ and ‘reproductive’ cloning is like trying to say that eating for nutrition and eating for pleasure are somehow different.” Investor’s Business Daily “Women are simply offered abortion, the quick fix, while genuinely meaningful solutions to their social or personal problems are left unexplored. . . . As long as abortion on demand remains legal and a constitutional right, women will continue to be isolated and exploited.” Please, don’t tell us abortion is good for women." Paige Comstock Cunningham of the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity Europe’s decline is directly linked to its hostility towards Christianity
Mark Steyn [Against Christianity: The UN and the European Union as a New Ideology].” The authors are Eugenia Roccella and Lucetta Scaraffia
"A parent of each sex is necessary to make the child, to raise the child, and to teach the child. To make him, both are needed because the female provides the egg, the male fertilizes it, and the female incubates the resulting zygote. To raise him, both are needed because the male is better designed for protection, the female for nurture. To teach him, both are needed because he needs a model of his own sex, a model of the other, and a model of the relationship between them. Mom and Dad are jointly irreplaceable. Their partnership in procreation continues even after the kids are grown, because then they are needed to help them establish their own new families." J. Budziszewski "beyond the boundaries of abortion, in the insidious return of eugenics."
Meet Kate, Guerrilla Apologetics' virtual apologist! "Grandmama is old and I think it is time she went home to Jesus," What if the New Zealand media covered the choice of Jesus as Messiah? I wonder, if our advanced technologies successfully eliminate the weak and needy, will future scholars, theologians, politicians, and poets ponder: "Why has our society become less loving, so selfish, so intolerant, so uncommitted to anything outside of individual gain? Why are we so full of selfish ambition and vain conceit?" Is this "perfect" society a place where any of us would want to live? Angela Beise "Nobody has a right to be killed by a doctor" Dr Jane Orr “Our pension system is already being tested to its limits. And with fewer young people in society, the question is: How are we going to sustain the elderly and the nation's future? We don't have a clear answer yet.” Japan's Education Ministry Kota Murase Young people rarely consider the fact that about 30 sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are running rampant through our post-Christian society. They infect between 8,000 and 10,000 (US) teenagers DAILY. Because the symptoms either are not evident or are misunderstood, 85 percent of teenagers infected with STDs don’t even know it. Nathan Tabor Right to Life New Zealand Comments: How indeed will all nations that have supported mass abortion for decades? (see our Coming Demographic Meltdown Link for more) "To monitor, research and to produce factual information with a view to opposing measures designed to end the lives of disabled people, including pre-natal screening tests which aim to detect and eliminate unborn disabled babies, the sedation and starvation to death of new-born disabled babies (often euphemistically referred to as "allowing to die") and euthanasia." One of the aims of "No Less Human" a Pro-life British organisation "The government has a solemn obligation to protect, not re-engineer, an institution that is more fundamental to human life than the state. In a word, it must 'build fences' to protect the institution of marriage." Calgary Bishop Fred Henry If a doctor will take money for killing the innocent Dr R A Gallop Does death with dignity, imply that it is undignified to fight for life? Right to Life New Zealand Who will speak for the trees? Plenty will Who will speak for the whales Heaps Who will speak for the unborn? No- one At least nobody important You see... if only someone important enough would speak... Then i wouldn’t be going to die tomorrow Right to Life New Zealand
“Every time you sleep with someone other than your spouse, you give up a part of yourself. If you casually give yourself away, by the time you become married you will be used up and the specialness of sharing your world with a loved one will be gone. “ Armstrong Williams
'They used to say we were selling Ukraine. Now we are selling Ukrainians; moreover, in parts.' A Ukranian reporter commenting on the trade in the body parts of unborn children for illegal 'beauty therapies" Abortion is not like any other issue: "Abortion is the killing of a child in its mother's womb. It is the most violent act designed by man against Almighty God, against society at large, against women, and against children in the womb in particular." By voting for someone who refuses to act to stop abortion, you are implicitly endorsing that violence. You are saying you do not care enough about the damage done to women and the killing of more than 100,000 unborn children each year to put aside issues such as taxes and trade, poverty, unemployment and the environment. All these issues are important, but they are not nearly as important as abortion. Jim Hughes National President, Campaingn Life Committee Canada
“The assisted suicide movement exploits autonomy and self-determination as their main arguments for assisted suicide.The problem is that autonomy and boundaries (safeguards) don’t mix. Autonomous people do not want boundaries, that is why the boundaries have not held in Oregon.." Dr. Kenneth Stevens, chairman of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Oregon Health and Science University “There's a lot of concern at how far things have gone: abortion at 32 weeks, a baby who cried for 80 minutes after being aborted, babies' bodies being used in experiments. Some of the uglier aspects have got into the public consciousness.” Pro-life Women's Forum spokeswoman Melinda Tankard-Reis, on commenting about the Australian Abortion rate which is approaching 100,000 Australian Unborn Children a year There is a huge moral difference between allowing a terminally ill patient to die, competent or otherwise, and actively killing them.Legalised voluntary euthanasia for the terminally ill leads to involuntary euthanasia, including those not terminally ill, people with treatable psychological disorders, and those who feel a burden. The Dutch have proved this beyond any doubt. Roger Woodruff,Director of Palliative Care Austin Repatriation Medical Centre, Melbourne , Australia
“Government, has a solemn obligation to protect, not re-engineer, an institution that is more fundamental to human life than the State.” Bishop Fred Henry of Calgary on marriage Is the best society can offer our elderly and sick the choice between a life of misery and killing themselves? A truly compassionate strategy would work for improvements to the social and health supports we provide the vulnerable members of our community, including wider access to palliative care Katrina George, lecturer in law at the University of Western Sydney One out of two sexually active young people in the United States will contract a sexually transmitted disease by the time they turn 25. One in every four people in the US has a sexually transmitted disease (STD). Every day 40,000 more people contract an STD — and 10,000 of them are teens Abstinence Net
Why does Right to Life New Zealand oppose embryonic stem cell treatments like that given to Rotorua woman Willie Terpstra, who underwent controversial fetal-cell surgery for motor neurone disease in China in March? The reason is simple, the cells given to Mrs Terpstra were taken from inside the noses of aborted unborn children. "The future of humanity passes by way of the family." Pope John Paul II, RIP "Human life is sacred and inviolable at every moment of existence, including the initial phase which precedes birth. All human beings, from their mothers' womb, belong to God who searches them and knows them, who forms them and knits them together with his own hands, who gazes on them when they are tiny shapeless embryos and already sees in them the adults of tomorrow whose days are numbered and whose vocation is even now written in the 'book of life' Evangelium Vitae If Christian teaching on sexuality were taken seriously, let alone obeyed, there would be no AIDS crisis. Period. John Mallon
"We don't think that maybe the people with a disability are enjoying life as best as is able. We look through able-bodied eyes and say, 'Their life must be bloody terrible'. You've got to put yourself in the situation of the Carols of this world who have fought to stay alive." Labour MP Mark Gosche (The refererence to Carol is to his own wife) "When you sit with somebody who's dying and watch their will to live keeping them alive and nothing else is keeping them alive, or when you sit at an ICU watching someone who is supposedly going to die come through it, purely through their will to live, it changes your mind about what their life is afterwards, even with the most severe disability." .... "It is a hugely different step to be asked to turn a ventilator off than to be asked to take a feeding tube out from somebody who has been alive for 15 years," Labour MP Mark Gosche Why is it that in the case of Terri Schiavo all the media are calling this a "right to die issue" ? Please tell me. To my knowledge before Terr was disabled she never expressed a desire to die should she become so. RTLNZ The camel's nose is under the tent. Old Middle Eastern saying BED-RIDDEN people who cannot communicate have not lost their humanity. Michael Cook Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, William Blake
"Rather than confront the issue of humanity, the pro-choice movement fights to suppress it. You won't see a film of an abortion on the Discovery channel. Pro-choice advocates fought against laws protecting the unborn from violent attack." Charles Reichley
"If abortion is legal, this means you have some foetuses," he said. "The foetus can be used, or it can be thrown away. If it can be used, and then can help patients, improve their lives - you can choose which is better. Throw it away or use it? I believe most people will think that using it is correct ethics." Dr Huang Hongyun of a Beijing Hospital who drilled two holes into her (New Zeland woman, Willie Terpstra's) skull, took a pink solution containing cultivated cells extracted from an aborted foetus, and injected it into her brain. (to "treat" her disease). Right to Life New Zealand comments that "Correct ethics is not killing unborn children in the first place and that we now have a new cannibalism where unborn children are ground up and used as commodities to be bought and sold in our marketplaces." "It's not that Terri is being forced to live that concerns so many people, People are saying she shouldn't be forced to die." Marci Schmitz "Over the past two decades, the Netherlands has moved from assisted suicide to euthanasia, from euthanasia for the terminally ill to euthanasia for the chronically ill, from euthanasia for physical illness to euthanasia for psychological distress and from voluntary euthanasia to nonvoluntary and involuntary euthanasia. Herbert Hendin, M.
"We acknowledge, therefore, that life begins with conception,because we contend that the soul begins at conception. Life begins when the soul begins." Tertullian 3rd century. Here's what I don't get: It's fine to tell teens to "Just say no" to, say, smoking and drug use, but when it comes to sex, abstinence-only education isn't "realistic." Instead, we must instruct teens on how to engage in "safe sex." Matt C. Abbott "In just a few generations since World War II, the Netherlands has slid from firm opposition to medical killing to tolerating it illegally to endorsing it in law and now to expanding it to children. On the face of it, Dutch euthanasia is all about pain and suffering and patient autonomy, but in reality, Dutch euthanasia is all about money, convenience and physician autonomy,"
Dr David Stevens MD Consider the mantra "We want abortion to be safe, legal, and rare". If abortion is simply a choice, why should it be rare? Most people oppose abortion for sex selection. If the fetus is just mass of tissue, why does it matter why a woman decides to have it removed? It is clear that an abortion is not the same as, say, having a mole removed. Pro-lifers oppose abortion because the fetus is human, not because they want to enslave women Choice is irrelevant; you don't get to choose whether other humans live or die. Charles Reichley "Choice" sounds fine, but it depends on what the options are. If the choice refers to killing a child in the womb it is a very bad thing John Mallon Why should the slaughter of six million Jews and countless others qualify as genocide but not the slaughter of 45 million unborn children? John Mallon
"Even if we include immigration, the population of the original EU-12 will fall by 7.5 million over the next 45 years, according to the UN calculations. Since the times of the 'Black Death' epidemic in the fourteenth century, Europe has never seen such an extensive population decline," Niall Ferguson British historian. "Large numbers of children, even including those who could be considered privileged, are no longer developing the empathy, moral commitment, and ability to love necessary to maintain our society at the level that has always been our dream," Dr. Robert Shaw, a child and family psychiatrist and director of the Family Institute of Berkeley in California "What is more humane - to eliminate the suffering in a person, or to eliminate the person who is suffering?" Brian Pollard, palliative care specilist - Australia ...Put in historical perspective, the abortion industry in America has slaughtered seven times as many helpless children as Adolf Hitler did Jews during his infamous Final Solution. What is the difference between Hitler and abortion? The world banned together and stopped Hitler. Nathon Tabor
Legalized physician-assisted suicide could favor the "quick fix" of assisted death and ignore the possibility of comfort care. It may begin as an option and silently turn into an expectation. The high cost of medical care and the emotional burdens placed on the patient's family or support group may result in vulnerable patients looking upon their doctor with an element of distrust, fearing the possibility of unwanted euthanasia. This could result in patients failing to seek medical treatment in a timely manner, which could greatly increase their emotional and physical discomfort. Even worse, the patient may feel guilt y for not choosing physician-assisted suicide. Dr. J. Michael Gospe
The most dangerous place on our planet for a child today is not Sub-Saharan Africa. It is not Baghdad. It is New York, Paris, Frankfurt, Wellington. The most dangerous place for a child today is in it's mothers womb in any western democratic country. RTLNZ "The moral relativists who support abortion and its related evils are as afraid of George W. Bush as slave owners were of Abraham Lincoln." Ken Concannon
Does my being a Catholic shape essentially anti-abortion opinions? Possibly. But lobotomy doesn't come with baptism. FRANK DEVIN Abortion debate in need of some ultra-sound advice December 17, 2004 "I will not overturn Roe v Wade; I will not appoint judges hostile to 'choice;' I will allow poor women to have free abortions; I will never outlaw abortion; I will increase American taxpayer's dollars on population control efforts around the world." John Kerry January 21, 2003, NARAL Dinner "As President Bush has said, we must make room for the unborn child. All across America, I have met countless voters who elected him precisely for that reason. They understand that no society can be just, and no social program effective, if we cannot even protect our own children," Father Pavone (Priests For Life)
Abortion is about many, many things, but first and foremost it represents the exercise of power by the strong over and against the weak. If we step back, we see that abortion represents a profound failure of moral obligation and moral imagination. The unborn’s right to life depends, not on the kindness of strangers, but rather on what is owed to him/her by their own family. Too often, out of sight means out of mind, a potentially lethal failure of moral imagination and human empathy. Father Pavone (Priests For Life) "The direct killing of innocent life is always wrong. Abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research and human cloning destroy the most fundamental right of all-the right to live. They are never permitted! They are intrinsically evil. To accept, as science teaches, the truth that human life begins at conception and then to destroy that life for any reason is completely illogical and immoral." Most Reverend Arthur J. Serratelli
"I think abstinence education should be required in all levels of education. It is the only real solution to restoring decency to our nation. Other methods of birth control are band aids on a gaping wound. Teaching children that they are of intrinsic worth and value, establishing a moral conscience of their personhood and their right of informed choice." Dolores Milazzo-Hicks
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"Tolerance of autonomous personal choice has become, for some people, the highest lawful good." Maxim Institue "Some people are not aware of us, at all. It gets into the whole debate about euthanasia. If people can access palliative care, the need for euthanasia would become less and less. We work on getting quality at the end of life." Dave Ryan Chief Executive Otago Community Hospice Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. Anthony Brandt "Today the greatest destroyer of peace is abortion." Mother Theresa
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The similarity between Nazi manipulations of the Jews and the abortionists' manipulation of women faced with crisis pregnancies is striking. Just as the victim-Jews were forced to choose between losing everything, or just a little, so abortion counselors encourage the victim-woman to view "this pregnancy" as a threat to everything she has, her relationships, her family, her career, her entire future. She is assured that by sacrificing this one thing (a tiny unborn child), she can save the rest. During this process, the victim-woman is urged to view the abortion decision not as a moral choice, but as a rational choice of "saving what you can." More David C Reardon Elliot Intstitute "It would not hurt Australians to understand the "brutal business" of abortion by watching the abortion of a four-week-old foetus on television...But the fact is there are a lot of abortions taking place in Australia, up to 100,000 a year, It is an ugly business" Australian Health Minister Tony Abbot on ABC Television decision to broadcast the programme "My Foetus."
Pro Abortion Quotes (Life Dynamics Web Site) We've been wrong because we allowed the strong to rule over the weakest members of our society - our pre-born children. When will we dare to say that personal choice stops at the taking of another human life. Rev. Keith Tucci
"It's a simple fact
that a three-year-old human has pretty much the same self-awareness,
rationality and capacity to feel pain as an adult ape. So they should be
given equal moral consideration."
Peter Singer "All I am saying is,
why limit the killing to the womb? Nothing magical happens at birth. Of
course, infanticide needs to be strictly legally controlled and rare - but
it should not be ruled out, any more than abortion."
Peter Singer
We've shown by example for almost three decades that innocent life has no means to defend itself and is of no consequence.Yes, there is a cost of repentance - a cost that can only be measured against the value we collectively put on life. Have we the constitution to go to the root of violence to reject denial and accept the logical ramifications of a society that condones the killing of it's tiniest members? We cannot build a dike to insulate against the effect this mass shedding of innocent blood has had on our youth.
Rev. Keith Tucci Telling isn't it. Until the recent passing of New Zealands Prositution Reform Act, NZ law regarding Prostitution was based on the 1949 UN Convention for the Suppression of Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others, which requires parties to punish any person who procures another for prostitution, even with the consent of that person, or exploits the prostitution of another person, even with the consent of that person, or keeps, manages or finances a brothel, or lets or rents a building or other place for the purpose of the prostitution of others (Study on Traffic in Persons and Prostitution, United Nations, 1959.) But both the United Nations and New Zealand have changed. At the UN's Forum on Indigenous People held in May 2004 we see the evidence of the architects of social engineering and deconstruction at work. For at this conference we hear prositution again condemed....but only when it is "enforced prostitution". Little by little the frog boils in the pan. Right to Life NZ There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained. Winston Churchill “If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good reason why mankind should be perceived as special,” Francis Schaeffer “It is clear that for many pregnant women, having a partner who is not formally committed to them, let alone their unborn child, is a major factor in their decision not to continue the pregnancy. In light of this we clearly need public policy aimed at rebuilding a culture which affirms marriage, and the safety net of parental commitment that it provides for unborn children.” “Until we have political leadership willing to encourage and promote marriage – we won’t turn the tide against abortion.” Ewen McQueen,Party Leader,Christian Heritage NZ
“Whatever proportions these crimes [Nuremberg] finally assumed….it started with the acceptance of the attitude, basic in the euthanasia movement, that there is such a thing as life not worthy to be lived.” (Dr L. Alexander, New England Journal of Medicine, Vol 241, July 1949).
"Euthanasia involves taking people who are at their weakest and most vulnerable, who fear loss of control and abandonment, and placing them in a situation where they believe their only alternative is to kill themselves," Dr Briscoe said. "How a society treats its weakest, most in need and most vulnerable members tests its moral and ethical tone." NZ Medical Association chairwoman Tricia Briscoe
David Jayne, a 42 year old man with ALS. Every five seconds, a ventilator on a cart next to his bed pumps air into his lungs. He is not able to move. Twelve years ago, Jayne would have dismissed this existence as a living hell. "Yes, I am very passionate about the Terri Schindler-Schiavo issue, because I live it," says Jayne, who was profiled in TIME Magazine in 2001. Jayne, like many of us, would have once said he could not imagine living in his current state. "If someone had told me I would be paralyzed and tethered to a ventilator, yet still find meaning in life, I would not have believed them." Today he says, "It is incredibly wrong for society to decide who lives or dies based on their opinions of what level of quality of life is worth living."
Dutch doctors now legally kill terminally ill people who ask for it, chronically ill people who ask for it, disabled people who ask for it, and depressed people who ask for it. Wesley J. Smith
"Now, a new medical hegemony is arising, one that proclaims the right to declare which of us have lives worth living and are therefore worth treating medically, and which of us do not. ..."Unless people object strongly . . . to this duty to die . . . and legislatures take active steps to intervene, this new and deadly game of 'Doctor Knows Best' will be coming soon to a hospital near you." Wesley J. Smith
Ironically, the "right to die" movement was founded on the premise that patients and/or families are the best judges of when it is time to die. Now, however, we are being told that doctors and/or ethicists are really the best judges of when we should die. ? Nancy Valko, journalist, medical ethicist, and intensive care unit nurse, "Bioethics Watch," Voices, 2003
Bob Schindler [father of Terri Schiavo] poignantly observes, "We pay great lip service in this country to disability rights, but as the degree of a person's disability increases, the level of legal protection that person receives decreases." ? Nancy Valko, lifeissues.net, August 2003
“Once you
permit the killing of the unborn child, Dr. R. A. Gallop
Guilty? Yes. No matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed [abortion]. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; But oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime!
A woman does not walk into an abortion clinic and say " I can not have this fetus." She says " I can not have this baby".
"There is only one reply to a request for a higher birthrate among the intelligent, and that is to ask the government to first take the burden of the insane and feeble-minded from your back. (Mandatory) sterilization for these is the answer." - From The Founder Of Planned Parenthood Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, in her Birth Control Review of October 1926, said the following:
"…legalised prostitution did not solve the problems of criminal involvement in the industry. It did not solve the problem of unregulated expansion. And it did nothing to quell the violence committed against street-prostituted women. In fact all these problems worsened." Melbourne University Professor, Shelia Jefferies explained at a United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (Talking about Australia's experience after Prostituion was legalised in Victoria)
Why Suicide In Oregon? Physician-assisted suicide has been legal in the State of Oregon for five years. Recently published was a survey of the reasons given for requesting suicide. Some patients gave more than one reason. We note the following:
Note that the main reason offered originally for making suicide legal was pain, pain and pain.
With regard to Tim Barnett's Prostitution Reform Bill, are our politicians more concerned about the sexual health of NZ's 8000 prostitutes, than the health of the 75,000 NZ women married to the men who visit them each week. If our MP's pass this bill, look for the rate of prostitution to grow up to four-fold, as has occurred in NSW following the decriminalising of prostitution there in 1995.
When asked what he would do to set the world right, Confucius said, "I would insist on the exact definition of words." He was right. Words matter. That's why most of the professional "poor-choicers" will never say that ugly word for failure--abortion. Instead, they will always substitute the word "choice" for abortion. This is deliberately done in order to distance listeners' minds from the ugly reality of abortion, which is actually being discussed.
The unsafest place today on our planet for the unborn child is not in Baghdad or Kabul. The unsafest place for an unborn child is in it's mothers womb "We live in a disposable society. The retention of relationships is, for an increasing number, for as long as is 'convenient'. Our Kleenex culture has the potential to further subvert an already shaky social structure when abortion is seen as no more than a 'tidying up process' for an inconveniently cluttered life.
"It is never licit to kill another: even if he should wish it, indeed if he request it, hanging between life and death… nor is it licit even when a sick person is no longer able to live". St. Augustine
David Kissane, professor of palliative care at Melbourne University and a psychiatrist who works with cancer sufferers, is in no doubt. He calls it the slippery slope phenomenon, where one day the public believes they are supporting the rights of the terminally ill to die with assistance only to discover the euthanasia advocates have shifted the goal posts to include what they term the "hopelessly ill". |
