“I've noticed everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”
Appeared in: The Human Life Review Spring 1983
Every legislator, every doctor, and every citizen needs to
recognize that the real issue is whether to affirm and protect the sanctity of
all human life, or to embrace a social ethic where some human lives are valued
and others are not. As a nation, we must choose between the sanctity of life
ethic and the "quality of life" ethic.
The real question today is not when human life begins, but, What
is the value of human life? The abortionist who reassembles the arms
and legs of a tiny baby to make sure all its parts have been torn from its
mother's body can hardly doubt whether it is a human being. The real question
for him and for all of us is whether that tiny human life has a God-given right
to be protected by the law -- the same right we have.
I have often said that when we talk about abortion, we are talking
about two lives -- the life of the mother and the life of the unborn child. Why
else do we call a pregnant woman a mother? I have also said that anyone who
doesn't feel sure whether we are talking about a second human life should
clearly give life the benefit of the doubt. If you don't know whether a body is
alive or dead, you would never bury it. I think this consideration itself
should be enough for all of us to insist on protecting the unborn.
A Senate committee hearing was held recently to determine, if we
can, when life actually begins. And there was exhaustive testimony of experts
presenting both views, and finally the result was declared inconclusive. They
couldn't arrive at an answer. Well, in my view alone, they did arrive at an
answer, an answer that justifies the proposed (human life) legislation. If it's
true we don't know when the unborn becomes a human life, then we have to opt in
favor that it is a human life until someone proves it isn't.
Remarks at the Centennial Meeting of the Supreme Council of the
Knights of Columbus Hartford, CT 8/3/82
And I just happen to believe that simple morality dictates that
unless and until someone can prove the unborn human is not alive, we must give
it the benefit of the doubt and assume it is. And thus, it should be entitled
to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Remarks at the Alfred M. Landon Lecture Series on Public
Issues Manhattan, KS 9/9/82
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In many states there seems to be a conflict in beliefs... If a person kills a pregnant mother the killer can be charged with a double murder, yet the mother is allowed to kill the unborn and that is called abortion... Say just how does that make sense????
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