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, article in "The Revolution", July, 1869

Sec. 1. All persons are by nature free and independent, and have certain inherent and inalienable rights; among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. To secure these rights, and the protection of property, governments are instituted among people, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Sec. 3. No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.
-- From The Constitution of the State of Nebraska: Article I, Bill Of Rights

We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life - the unborn - without diminishing the value of all human life....There is no cause more important.
-- Ronald Reagan

It is a baby, not a choice. If you leave it alone and don't stop its heart and flatline its brainwaves, if you don't kill it, you can call it potential all you want, it is a human being. And we cannot avoid discussing this, in depth, in this race. Roe-Wade has given us 22 years of abortion on demand for any and all reasons or no reason at all through all 9 months. I'm in this race to make sure that we do discuss this issue.
-- Bob Dornan

The assertion of a right to abortion epitomizes the corrupt concept of freedom that has tragically (and we may hope temporarily) achieved ascendancy in our times. If the Declaration states our creed, there can be no right to abortion, since it means denying the most fundamental right of all to human offspring in the womb. One human being has the right to take the life of another only in defense of his own life, or when through acts of war an aggressor forfeits his immunity from harm. This means that, except where necessary to save the physical life of the mother, abortion involves the unjust taking of a human life. The mere fact that the individual in the womb is wholly in its mother's physical power, and completely dependent upon her for sustenance, gives her no right whatsoever with respect to its life, since the mere possession of physical power can never confer such a right. Might does not make right. Abortion is therefore a breach of the fundamental tenets of our public moral creed.

We're going to have to find the courage one of these days to tell people that freedom is not an easy discipline. Freedom is not a choice for those who are lazy in their hearts, and in their respect for their own moral capacities. Freedom requires that at the end of the day, you accept the constraint that is required, the respect for the laws of Nature and Nature's God, that say unequivocally that your daughters do not have the right to do what is wrong, that your sons do not have the right to do what is wrong. They do not have the right to steal bread from the mouths of the innocent. They do not have the right to steal life from the womb of the unborn.

Abortion is a Declaration issue. It is an issue that goes to the very heart of our principles and how we apply them. It is like the issue of slavery and the issue of civil rights: an issue of whether or not we really acknowledge the transcendent Authority on the basis of which we have our rights, or whether we are going to arrogate that authority to ourselves, and declare that we have the right to draw the line determining who is human and who is not.

[The] notion that your children exist for your convenience, for your pleasure, for your satisfaction, and, that if they don't serve that pleasure, satisfaction and convenience, you have the right to get them out of the way - that is the principle of abortion. And so we see that at the heart of this issue is an attitude that poisons and destroys the entire possibility of family life. It establishes as the principle of right in this society the notion that other human beings, including those who are closest to us of any human beings in the world, can be regarded by us as objects, de-humanized instruments of our pleasure and passion and convenience.

Abortion strikes at the very heart and soul and principle of what it means to be part of a family.

The paradigm of all peace and security should be the peace of the unborn child in the womb.
-- Alan Keyes

The pre-born child, whose life begins at conception, is a human being created in God's image. The first duty of the law is to prevent the shedding of innocent blood. It is, therefore, the duty of all civil governments to secure and to safeguard the lives of the pre-born.
-- US Taxpayers Party1996 Platform

And that's why for most of American History there was no misguided conclusion that law is the result of man's reason or that law is determined by the state. It was understood that law is revealed and that God is the Lawmaker. And that's why they could say that ignorance of the law is no excuse, because everyone knew the source. And that's also why there was no argument about things like abortion and sodomy and the death penalty because it was commonly understood that's what the Bible and the common law directed.
-- Howard Phillips

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