Quotes against Abortion
For thou didst form my
inward parts, thou didst knit me together in my mother's womb. ( Psalm
139:13)
A woman who deliberately destroys a fetus is
answerable for murder. And any fine distinction between its being completely
formed or unformed is not admissible among us.(St. Basil the Great)
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the
nations." (Jeremiah 1:5)
"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. " ( Mother
Teresa)
Thus says the LORD, your
Redeemer, who formed you from the
womb: "I am the LORD, who made all things, who stretched out the
heavens alone, who spread out the earth -- Who was with me? ( Isaiah 44:24)
'Hear Him Himself speaking to His own in the
Gospel, "Abide in Me, and I in you" (St. John xv. 4). O inconceivable
condescension! O blissful abiding! O glorious interchange! What condescension
of the Creator, to will that His creature should in Him have dwelling! What
inconceivable blessedness of the creature, to dwell in the Creator! How great
glory of a rational creation to be, by so blessed an interchange, associated
with the Creator, as that He in it and it in Him should have their dwelling!'
( St. Anselm of Canterbury)
( St. Anselm of Canterbury)
