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"For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise You, for I
am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.
My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the
lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book
they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them."
Psalm 139-13-16 (NKJ)
- COLSON, CHARLES 1934
"Antics With Semantics - Why 'Pro-Life' Means Pro-Life"
"When a newspaper calls its letters section "Voice of the People," can you expect to read what
readers really think? Or do editors reserve the right to interpret readers' words to comply with
their own preconceptions? The answer depends on which newspaper you're reading-and the
subject of the letter. If your letter presents abortion in an unsympathetic light, your letter may
well be aborted or distorted."
- COLSON, CHARLES 1934
"Building Better Babies - How Engineering Our Children Robs Us Of Our
Humanity"
"At the same time, some doctors are saying that all pregnant women, not just those whose
children are at risk of having birth defects, should routinely be offered potentially dangerous tests
like amniocentesis. As the Standard points out, a recent British survey indicates that women are
so worried about the possibility of having a genetically abnormal child that they're willing to risk
the miscarriage that amniocentesis can cause. This tallies with the statistic that "about 90 percent
of women who discover their baby has a chromosomal disorder abort it." Ninety percent! If that
figure isn't shocking, I don't know what is."
- COLSON, CHARLES 1934
"Buried Conscience"
"Some people think they can turn off their conscience. Don't believe it. Paul says that God's law
is 'written on the heart.' And although we can be desensitized to evil, we can't really forget that it's
evil. Even if you drive your conscience underground, you can never erase it."
- COLSON, CHARLES 1934
"Pretty Stones And Dead Babies - Abortion's New Language"
"What these abortion counselors are doing is coaching patients to twist their own words,
emotions, and moral understanding so that they can feel justified doing something that they're
clearly acknowledging is wrong. In language full of sentiment, these women are gently
encouraged to put their own short-term needs first, and not to think about what's best both for
their babies and themselves in the long run."
- EARLEY, MARK
"Irreplaceable - Why The 'Biological'Argument For Abortion doesn't
Work"
"If we base our thinking on biology, Sanger argues, we see that both abortion and birth control
are necessary means of taking "control of our reproduction" and making sure our genes are
passed along. He claims that it may be in a woman's "reproductive interests" to abort a child who
isn't healthy, or for whom she can't care, and try to have another one later when the circumstances
are more favorable. This, he says, is the best way of ensuring that her genes will be passed on to
future generations. Near the end of the book, he sums up this argument as follows: 'The only
thing more important than life is the propagation of life.'"
- EARLEY, MARK
"Spin Control - Abortion Advocates Attempt To Fix Their Message"
"Although many abortion advocates would never admit it, this is a vulnerable time for their
movement. Several issues, including the passage of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, have
people thinking seriously and rightly about the beginning of life. Two recent articles in the online
magazine Slate reveal that the pro-choice ranks don't feel too comfortable with that
situation-especially since not all of them are sure how to respond.
- MacARTHUR, JOHN F., 1939
"The Biblical View On Abortion"
"To sum up what we are experiencing with regard to abortion in America, we could simply say,
'America, as a nation, is highly committed by law and by practice to a form of mass murder.'
And that is really the bottom line. . . . It is estimated that perhaps as many as 75,000,000 babies
will be murdered this year around the world, 75,000,000! That's probably conservative. It's more
than all the deaths in all the wars, in all the history of the world. This kind of murder is shocking
and I don't want to be too shocking, but I want to tell you how it is done and I hope that I don't
offend anyone. The processes of abortion are somewhat frightening and
bizarre."
- MOHLER, R. ALBERT, Jr.
"Choose Life And Live"
Keynote address to the Kentucky Right To Life rally, State Capitol Rotunda, Frankfort, Kentucky
"Over the past three decades, Americans have aborted nearly 40-million unborn children. We have
allowed an entire industry of murderous clinics to rise in our midst, and many politicians stand ready to
defend, if not to celebrate, these abortuaries and their operators. In an unprecedented reversal, even
our language has been debased. Unborn infants have become "unintended
products of conception," or "unwanted biomass." The murder of unborn siblings is called "selective
reduction." Abortuaries are called "reproductive health centers."
- PIPER, JOHN S., 1946
"Abortion And The Tree Of The Knowledge Of Good And Evil"
The modern secular world—the world which tries to remove God from his all-creating,
all-sustaining, all-defining, all-governing place—has no choice but to make itself god and to
create its own morality. In other words, when man abandons God and his self-revelation as the
source of what is objectively true and right and beautiful, the next highest court of appeal is man
himself.
- PIPER, JOHN S., 1946
"The Darkness of Abortion and the Light of Truth"
"What's the flaw here? The flaw is that, while claiming to withhold judgment, the judiciary not
only speculated but authoritatively decreed on the issue: namely, it is not murder or manslaughter
to destroy the unborn. That is not a suspension of judgment. That is a decisive judgment:
namely, in the womb there is nothing worth protecting by law. To portray this as a sensitive
suspension of judgment about the status of unborn life is false and deceptive. How do you get
from, "We do not know whether this is protectable human life," to "Therefore, we will not protect
it"'? Wouldn't the logic just as likely (some would say far more likely) be, "Since we do not know
whether this is protectable human life, therefore we will protect it." Why does the judicial
uncertainty about the humanity of the unborn lead to unbridled license to destroy it?"
- REAGAN, RONALD W.
"Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation"
"The 10th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade is a
good time for us to pause and reflect. Our nationwide policy of abortion-on-demand through all nine
months of pregnancy was neither voted for by our people nor enacted by our legislators— not a
single state had such unrestricted abortion before the Supreme Court decreed it to be national policy in
1973. But the consequences of this judicial decision are now obvious: since 1973, more than 15 million
unborn children have had their lives snuffed out by legalized abortions. That is over ten times the
number of Americans lost in all our nation's wars.
Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right granted by the Constitution. No serious
scholar, including one disposed to agree with the Court's result, has argued that the framers of the
Constitution intended to create such a right. Shortly after the Roev. Wade decision,
Professor John Hart Ely, now Dean of Stanford Law School, wrote that the opinion "is not
constitutional law and gives almost no sense of an obligation to try to be." Nowhere do the plain words
of the Constitution even hint at a "right" so sweeping as to permit abortion up to the time the child is
ready to be born. Yet that is what the Court ruled."
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