Abortion Quotes

“If an unjust law is passed and enforced, then anyone coerced to comply with the law is a victim of injustice.”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion

“Everyone has the right to do his own thing. This slogan is as crass as it is silly. If it were followed by everyone resolutely, society itself would be an impossibility. No one would have any true rights protected, because it at any given moment my rights could trample your rights”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at an Emotional Issue

“Allan Bloom, in his book The Closing oftheAmerican Mind, chronicled the epidemic rise of moral relativism that reduces ethics to personal preferences rather than to objective norms for what is right and wrong.”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“If I think of the ballot as a potential bullet, I will be more careful when I vote. The word vote comes from the Latin word votum, which means "will." When I cast my vote, I express my will. Indeed, if my vote is decisive or a part of the winning majority, then I am not merely expressing my will but imposing my will on others.
Many people think that the vote is merely a means to express personal desires or to seek personal gain, usually at the expense of others. On the contrary, to be ethically scrupulous in the casting of votes, we must vote only for what is just. To vote for a vested interest without just cause is to exercise tyranny.”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“Never will I sit motionless while directly or indirectly apology is made for the murder of the helpless. In securing any kind ofpeace, the first essential is to guarantee to every man the most elementary of rights: the right to his own life. Murder is not debatable.
-Theodore Roosevelt”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“Even if it were decided in extreme cases that abortion is an ethical option, the extreme cases should not dictate the general law.”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“I would counsel her to maintain the pregnancy on the grounds that the developing baby within her is a co-victim
of the rapist's heinous crime. To kill the fetus, who is innocent of the offense, is to add insult to injury.”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“Likewise, abortions performed to save the lives of women are exceedingly rare. The real issue is abortion for convenience or because the child is simply not wanted.”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“Once a man ceases to recognize the infinite value ofthe human soul... then all he can recognize is that man is something to be used. But then he will also have to go further and recognize that some men can no longer be utilized and he arrives at the concept that there are some lives that have no value at all.
-Helmut Thielicke”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“Just laws reflect what is right.”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“Even if it cannot be proven that a fetus is an actual living human person, there is no doubt that it is a potential living human person. In other words, a fetus is a developing person. It is not in a frozen state of potentiality. The fetus is in dynamic process—without interference or unforeseen calamity, it surely will become a fully actualized living human person.”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“By expanding the scope of the Ten Commandments to include such matters as lust and slander, Jesus did not mean that it is just as evil to lust after a person as it is to have unlawful physical intercourse. Likewise, Jesus did not say that slander is just as evil as murder. What He did say is that the law against murder includes a law against anything that involves injuring a fellow human unjustly.”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“The law not only prohibits certain negative behaviors and attitudes, but by implication it requires certain positive behaviors and attitudes. That is, if adultery is prohibited, chastity and purity are required.”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“Because Christians speak so tirelessly about human sin, do they have a low view of humanity? Indeed, they have a low view of human virtue, but not a corresponding low view of human worth or importance. It is precisely because the Bible has such a
high view of human dignity that Christians take human sin so seriously. If one rat steals another rat's food, we don't get morally outraged. But if one human steals another human's food, we rightly become concerned.”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“The image of God in the narrow sense concerns mankind's ethical capacity and behavior. In creation, man was given the ability and the responsibility to mirror and reflect the holy character of God. Since the fall, the mirror has been splotched by the grime of sin. We have lost our capacity for moral perfection, but we have not lost our humanity with this ethical loss.”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“The fact that people become emotional about the abortion issue has a rational basis. The emotion is not arbitrary or capricious. The emotion is rooted in the deep human consciousness of the sanctity of life. It is emotional concern for the well-being of people-living people.”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“Nature is imitated by our discoveries, but she has known much more than we have yet discovered.”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“The medical community has the greatest financial vested interest in abortion, which has become at least a billion-dollar business.”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“Yet I believe we are in the midst of a new and more evil holocaust, which sees the destruction of 1.5 million unborn babies every year in the United States alone.”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“The most obvious alternative to abortion is to put the baby up for adoption.”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“Indeed, as others have said, the most dangerous place in the United States for a human being is inside the womb of a woman.”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“Feminists need to ask why the "sexist" establishment supports abortion. It may be that abortion enhances the male's freedom to exploit by sparing him from the worry ofpaternity.
-Bill Crouse”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“The Supreme Court decided that the state has no compelling interest in the fetus until viability. (One wonders at what point the fetus has a compelling interest in the state.) By denying the unborn the fundamental right to live, the state has reneged on its solemn duty.”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“In the ancient world, Greeks and Romans supported abortion and infanticide, but the Jewish and Christian communities did not.”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“Whatever else abortion does, it does not promote the life of the unborn child.”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“Even if it cannot be
proven that a fetus is an actual living human person, there is no doubt that it is a potential living human person. In other words, a fetus is a developing person. It is not in a frozen state of potentiality. The fetus is in dynamic process-without interference or unforeseen calamity, it surely will become a fully actualized living human person.”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“The punitive measures against murder underscore the gravity of the crime precisely because of the value of the victim.”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“If our origin is accidental and insignificant, and if our destiny is annihilation, is it not absurd to believe that we have some significance in between?”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“The sanctity-of-life principle underscores the gravity of the question of when human life begins.”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue

“Do the unborn have basic rights that should be protected by constitutional law?”
― R.C. Sproul, Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue