Fighting for Life Quotes

“If we accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?”
― Lila Grace Rose, Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded World

“Evil depends on our apathy, our lukewarmness, our attachment to the safe, the familiar, the comfortable.”
― Lila Grace Rose, Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded World

“Education about the humanity of the child is desperately needed. People need to be shown the evil of abortion, the true agenda of abortionists, and the abuses of the abortion industry.”
― Lila Grace Rose, Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded World

“Starting a family doesn’t mean we leave the fight. It means we dare to rebuild our nation, even on a battlefield. I believe that in a world so often restless and cynical, saying yes to romance, to love, to the everyday tasks of marriage and family is its own quiet revolution. Defying the forces of evil, one man and one woman making a little home where vulnerability, tenderness, and laughter can thrive is a subversive act. It also means creating a family is the supreme act of defiance—a celebration of life in the midst of war.”
― Lila Grace Rose, Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded World

“Live Action today focuses on changing the culture, one person at a time, by sharing truth that transforms lives. Only awakened hearts and minds can change the world.”
― Lila Grace Rose, Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded World

“It struck me deeply that of all the evils in the world—poverty, war, hunger—it was abortion that Mother Teresa considered “the greatest destroyer of love and peace.”
― Lila Grace Rose, Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded World

“We must do our best to alleviate suffering, but never by eliminating the sufferer. We do not advocate for sexually trafficked survivors by calling for their deaths. We don’t work to protect the elderly, the frail, the poor, or the disenfranchised by saying it would be better to end their lives. Imagine how ridiculous it would have been if abolitionists had called for the killing of slaves to spare them the pain of their enslavement. If we love someone, we don’t wish that they die. We should always fight to save lives and to make life better, not to end lives.”
― Lila Grace Rose, Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded World

“An abortion cannot take away the trauma of a rape; it can only add the trauma of an abortion.... Abortion is a violent and destructive, forced and premature removal of the child from the pregnant woman, with the intention of killing the child.”
― Lila Grace Rose, Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded World

“It is better for all the world,’ wrote famed liberal Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, ‘if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind’... Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger approved wholeheartedly of this philosophy… her utopia would have no place for the ‘mentally defective,’ which, in her writings, included the poor, the disabled, essentially all African Americans, and most other people of color. She argued that preventing ‘defectives’ from being born was the height of compassion… “Sadly, many people today still hold eugenic ideals without even realizing it. For example, children with disabilities are routinely killed before birth because they are deemed unfit.”
― Lila Grace Rose, Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded World

“Communism almost inevitably produces leaders such as Lenin and Stalin and Mao and results in forced labor camps, political assassinations, religious oppression, elimination of free speech, confiscation of private property, and the murder of millions of innocent human beings.”
― Lila Grace Rose, Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded World

“In extreme and rare cases when pregnancy complications threaten a mother’s life, such as toxemia or preeclampsia, the doctor may need to deliver the child prematurely, attempting to save the lives of both the child and the mother. But this is not an abortion.The doctor’s intent is not to kill the baby. An abortion is different: it is designed to produce a dead baby, and it targets the baby’s body for destruction. Pre-term delivery is much safer than late-term abortion.”
― Lila Grace Rose, Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded World

“The government, whose job it is to protect the most vulnerable against those who would exploit and destroy them, was expressly PERMITTING the violence. This is why Live Action’s investigative work began-- because of a failure of the law and law enforcement to protect children in the womb and their mothers from the abortion industry.”
― Lila Grace Rose, Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded World

“Each century had its own strain of blindness to the humanity of every person. Abortion was our era’s great injustice…. Today, the most dehumanized among us is the child in the womb. This child is not even considered a human worthy of basic legal protection. Indeed, the unwanted unborn enjoy fewer protections than unwanted animals. Instead, preborn children are routinely dismembered, suctioned to death, deprived of nutrients, or given lethal injections, all with the consent of the law and in the name of ‘rights’.”
― Lila Grace Rose, Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded World

“What I learned from reading about Mother Teresa was much the same lesson I learned from reading about Corrie and Betsie ten Boom: heroism is grounded in self-sacrificing love. Instead of taking life or leaving those in danger to suffer alone, heroes offer up their lives for others, even to the point of death.”
― Lila Grace Rose, Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded World

“There are evil forces in the world that are tangible and real. They violate the dignity of the human person, especially the vulnerable, and brutalize the most defenseless...The cause to which I’ve dedicated my life’s work has brought me face-to-face with some of these forces, and I’ve seen evil I can never forget.”
― Lila Grace Rose, Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded World

“The history of social reform is the history of horrifying pictures’...Such imagery ‘convinced the country that the victims were real people, fully entitled to rights of personhood.”
― Lila Rose, Fighting for life