Bergen County Right To Life
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A baby`s eyes are the mirror of love Anonymous - 8/16/2000 |
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The ethical arguments that support fetal or embryonic research assume that the fetus and embryo do not have rights equal to individuals further along in their development (i.e., older)...If that assumption were correct, would it not then be unethical not to have embryo farms in order to save further differentiated human beings whom we value more? And which other groups of undeveloped, underdevloped or no longer productive humans may we apply this premise to next? Anton-Lewis Usala, M.D. (2001 Respect Life Prog.) |
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...but these "microscopic clumps of cells" are genetically complete and unique human individuals. Their tiny size does not diminish their humanity - by exactly that same bad logic, an infant would be less human than an adult. In fact, all of us were once the same size on our journey through the continuum of life. Archbishop Charles J. Chaput - 8/1/2001 |
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The inalienable rights of the person must be recognized and respected by civil society and the political authority...Among such fundamental rights one should mention in this regard is every human being`s right to life and physical integrity from the moment of conception until death. Since it must be treated from conception as a person, the embryo must be defended in its integrity, cared for, and healed, as far as possible, like any other human being. Catechism of the Catholic Church (#2273-2274) |
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The goal...is to transform our society into one where people are radically, even heroically, generous to every human life, no matter the personal cost. It`s about creating a nation where there is no pro-life "movement". Cathleen Cleaver (2001 Respect Life Prog.) |
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The Hand of God, Regnery Publishing, Inc. c. 1996 The pro-life community states very simply that we are all human beings and that no one quality can be depended upon to confer "personhood" upon us, based on physical or mental attributes or skills. Dr. Bernard Nathanson |
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The Hand of God, Regnery Publishing, Inc. c. 1996 At this writing there are at least 15,000 abortions after the 21st week every year. Today, at 21 weeks, the baby is considered viable. These are not even abortions; they are murdering premature babies. In the mid-70s, I would be up on one floor, putting the hypertonic saline into a woman 23 weeks pregnant, and on another floor down, I would have someone in labor at 23 weeks, and I would be trying to salvage this baby. The nurses were caught in the same bind, the same moral whipsaw. What were we doing here, were we saving babies or were we killing them? ....then in 1979 I did my last one [abortion]. I had come to the conclusion that there was no reason for an abortion at any time; this person in the womb is a living human being, and we could not continue to wage war aginst the most defenseless of human beings. Dr. Bernard Nathanson |
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The Hand of God, Regnery Publishing, Inc. c. 1996 There is very little dignity to be discovered in the frantic thrashings of the poor benighted soul being smothered with a plastic bag over the head. Dying itself is a natural act, and immanent in this act is a perfect dignity that needs no help from us; God designed our lives, in His wisdom, to end in all manner of ways, and each way - irrespective of how untidy or disorganized it may seem to us - is inherently as dignified as any other. Dr. Bernard Nathanson |
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The Hand of God: "The Abortionist", Regnery Publishing, Inc. c. 1996 I doubt it is an epistemic overstretch to venture that the deliberate destruction of a living, demonstrably human, being is a practice anathema to all but the most morally insouciant physicians, and can justifiably be described as bearing "low prestige" in the medical community.... [I]t appears that it is the younger OB-GYNs, trained in the era of ultrasound and with far more worthwhile endeavors open to them, who are leading the field away from abortion and leaving it to the quacks and hacks. Dr. Bernard Nathanson, MA (Bioethics),M.D. |
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All doctors (except abortionists) feel that the principles of the sanctity of human life held since the time of the ancient Jews and Hippocrates and stubbornly defended by the Catholic Church are correct, and we are pained when placed before the necessity of sacrificing it. At the present time, when rivers of blood and tears of innocent men, women, and children are flowing in most parts of the world, it seems almost silly to be contending over the right to live of an unknowable atom of human flesh in the uterus of a woman. No, it is not silly. On the contrary, it is of transcendent importance that there be in this chaotic world one high spot, however small, which is safe against the deluge of immorality and savagery that is sweeping over us. That we, in the medical profession, hold to the principle of the sacredness of human life and of the rights of the individual, even though unborn, is proof that humanity is not yet lost and that we may ultimately attain salvation. Dr. J. DeLee, 1940 Yearbook of Ob/Gyn |
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The traditional, humane pro-life ethic...sees every human life as valuable in itself. It offers loving acceptance and care to every human being, without distinction of size, shape, skin color, or self-sufficiency. It assumes that every life is worth living...The handicapped and the aged are here as much for us, perhaps, as for themselves. Fr. John Powell |
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The Lord called me from the womb; From the body of my mother He named me. And now says the Lord, who formed me from the womb to be His servant... Isaiah 49:1,5 |
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Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations. Jeremiah 1:5 |
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Do not, in the name of progress for disabled people, justify the destructive harvesting of human embryos for stem cell research, a practice both immoral and unnecessary. Mary Jane Owen, a woman with phys. disabilities - 5/1/2000 |
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Abortion is the greatest destroyer of peace 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 |
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Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of life and peace is abortion. Mother Teresa |
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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. Mother Teresa |
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As U.S. citizens, we deplore the fact that our nation is at risk of forgetting the promise made to generations yet unborn by our Declaration of Independence: that our nation would respect life as first among the inalienable rights bestowed upon us by our Creator. To uphold that promise, the nation`s founders pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor. We must do no less. Natl. Conf. of Catholic Bishops - 11/15/2000 |
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The inalienable dignity of every human being and the rights which flow from that dignity—in the first place, the right to life and the defense of life—as well as the well-being and full human development of individuals and peoples, are at the heart of the church`s message and action in the world. Pope John Paul II |
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The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn. Pope John Paul II - 6/9/1991 |
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If you want equal justice for all, and true freedom and lasting peace, then, America, defend life! All the great causes that are yours today will have meaning only to the extent that you guarantee the right to life and protect the human person. Pope John Paul II |
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We see a tragic expression of all this in the spread of euthanasia – disguised and surreptitious, or practiced openly and even legally. As well as for a misguided pity at the sight of a patient’s suffering, euthanasia is sometimes justified by the utilitarian motive of avoiding costs which bring no return and which heavily on society. Thus it is proposed to eliminate malformed babies, the severely handicapped, the disabled, the elderly, especially when they are not self-sufficient, and the terminally ill. Nor can we remain silent in the face of other more furtive, but no less serious and real, forms of euthanasia. These could occur, for example, when, in order to increase the availability of organs for transplants, organs are removed without respecting objective and adequate criteria which verify the death of the donor. Pope John Paul II (Evangelum Vitae) - 1/1/1995 |
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Irresponsible practices of genetic engineering, such as cloning, and use of embryos for research...are justified by an illegitimate appeal to freedom, to cultural progress, to the advancement of mankind. When the weakest and most vulnerable members of society are subject to such atrocities, the very idea of the human family, built on the value of the person, on trust, respect, and mutual support, is dangerously eroded. A civilization based on love and peace must oppose these experiments, which are unworthy of man. Pope John Paul II (message for World Day of Peace) - 1/1/2001 |
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In the culture of life, we must make room for the stranger. We must comfort the sick. We must care for the aged. We must welcome the immigrant. We must teach our children to be gentle with one another. We must defend in love the innocent child waiting to be born. Pres. G. W. Bush - 3/22/2001 |
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For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother`s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! Psalms 139:13 |
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We are not arguing over a "blob of frozen cells"! We are struggling for the lives of human beings... America cannot afford to lose to death on the "unwanted and discarded" premise, furthering the Nazi medical ethical code of "research"... The promoters of ESCR are in fact the ethical heirs of Nazi medical practices and rhetoric, i.e. those that are unwanted or discarded can be used for experimentation for the benefit of others. Randall Terry - 8/1/2001 |
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"The FDA`s approval of the abortion pill, RU-486, highlights the stakes for November`s election, with The White House, the House, and perhaps even the Senate up for grabs, along with the possibility of a reshaping of the Supreme Court..." Robin Toner, NEW YORK TIMES - 9/29/2000 |
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I`ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born. Ronald Reagan |
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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. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh! thrice guilty is he who, for selfish gratification, heedless of her prayers, indifferent to her fate, drove her to the desperation which impels her to the crime. Susan B. Anthony, an early women`s rights leader |
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As chief teachers in the Church, we must therefore explain, persuade, correct, and admonish those in leadership positions who contradict the Gospel of life through their actions and policies. Catholic public officials who disregard Church teaching in the inviolability of the human person indirectly collude in the taking of innocent life. U.S. Catholic Bishops, Living the Gospel of Life - 1/1/1998 |