Top Ten Abortion Quotes from the Church
by CAPP-USA
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)
