Top Ten Abortion Quotes from the Church

by CAPP-USA

Amazing abortion quotes from the Catholic Church

Beautiful quotes about abortion from the Church

Our Top Ten Quotes about Abortion

The Church’s teaching on abortion is clear and consistent: Abortion is morally wrong in all circumstances. Human life is sacred from the moment of conception, and every human being has an inherent right to life. This belief is rooted in understanding that life is a gift from God and has profound and inalienable dignity.

These quotes, out of the numerous examples, represent Church teaching.

“[T]he child in the womb has the right to life immediately from God, not from
parents, nor from any society or human authority.” (Pope Pius XII)
“The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself.” (Pope Benedict XVI)
“Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception.” “This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable.” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2270, 2271)
“Abortion…cannot be a human right – it is the very opposite.” (Pope Benedict XVI)
“[E]very human being is endowed with a dignity that must never be…destroyed”. (Pope St. John Paul II, 12)
“Abortion is murder…It’s a human life, period.” (Pope Francis)
“Life, especially human life, belongs to God; whoever attacks human life attacks God’s very self.” (Pope St. John Paul II, 9)
“The life of each is equally sacred, and no one has the power, not even the public authority, to destroy it.” (Pope Pius XI, 64)
“So great is the value of a human life, and so inalienable the right to life of an innocent child growing in the mother’s womb, that no alleged right to one’s own body can justify a decision to terminate that life, which is an end in itself and which can never be considered the ‘property’ of another human being.” (Pope Francis, 83)
“Politicians and legislators…as servants of the common good, are duty bound to defend the fundamental right to life”. (Pope Benedict XVI)

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Three circles containing symbols of the three principles of catholic social teaching: human dignity, subsidiarity, and solidarity.

Three Key Principles

Catholic social teaching is built on three foundational principles - Human Dignity, Solidarity and Subsidiarity. Human Dignity, embodied in a correct understanding of the human person, is the greatest. The others flow from it. Good governments and good economic systems find ways of fostering the three principles.

Human Dignity

This means a correct understanding of the human person and of each person’s unique value. All Catholic social teaching flows from this: the inherent dignity of every person that comes from being made in God’s image.

Solidarity

Solidarity is not “a feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes of others. It is a firm and persevering determination to commit oneself to the common good”. (Pope St. John Paul II, 38) Love of God and love of neighbor are, in fact, linked and form one, single commandment.

Subsidiarity

Subsidiarity “is a fundamental principle of social philosophy, fixed and unchangeable, that one should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry. So, too, it is an injustice and at the same time a grave evil and a disturbance of right order to transfer to the larger and higher collectivity functions which can be performed and provided for by the lesser and subordinate bodies”. (Pope Pius XI)

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