"If I were pregnant, would I get an abortion? No. I'm a pacifist...If I kill when it's my choice, how can I ask anybody else not to kill when it's their choice?" –Juli Loesch, Sojourners, 1980. #Quotes#ConsistentLifeEthic
"To talk about the 'wanted' and the 'unwanted' child smacks too much of bigotry and prejudice. Many of us have experienced the sting of being "unwanted" by certain segments of our society." –Graciela Olivarez, 1972. #HumanRights#Quotes
"...ineffectuality is only a secondary reason to oppose inflicting extreme physical & psychological trauma on human beings; however, it is still worthwhile to assert the truth that torture simply doesn’t work..." –Herb Geraghty in Life Matters Journal, V. 8, Issue 1. #Quotes
"Do disabled people get treated differently when they go for suicide prevention treatment? The answer is yes." –Sarah Terzo in Life Matters Journal, V. 8, Issue 2. #Rehumanize
"From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own. It says 'Disarm, Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice.'" –Julia Ward Howe, Mother's Day Proclamation of Peace, 1870. #Quotes#ConsistentLifeEthic
"A human life is a human life; and if equality means anything, it means that society may not value some human lives over others." –Mary Meehan, The Progressive, September 1980. #Quotes#ConsistentLifeEthic
"...along with these examples there are also always those who risk their reputations, livelihoods, and even lives to bring about justice." –Herb Geraghty in Life Matters Journal, V. 7, Issue 1. https://t.co/7bO3qMciFN #HumanRights
"The poor cry out for justice, and we respond with legalized abortion." –Graciela Olivarez, one of the few female members of the 1972 U.S. Presidential commission on population growth, dissenting to the commission's endorsement of abortion. #Quotes#ConsistentLifeEthic