Quote #72

As a nation, we must choose between the sanctity of life ethic and the 'quality of life' ethic. I have no trouble identifying the answer our nation has always given to this basic question, and the answer that I hope and pray it will give in the future.

More from Ronald Reagan

  1. Regrettably, we live at a time when some persons do not value all human life. They want to pick and choose which individuals have value.
  2. As a nation today, we have not rejected the sanctity of human life. The American people have not had an opportunity to express their view o…
  3. 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 hardl…
  4. We must all educate ourselves to the reality of the horrors taking place. Doctors today know that unborn children can feel a touch within t…
  5. 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 u…
  6. Late-term abortions, especially when the baby survives, but is then killed by starvation, neglect, or suffocation, show once again the link…
  7. We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life - the unborn - without diminishing the value of all human life.
  8. It is possible that the Supreme Court itself may overturn its abortion rulings. We need only recall that in Brown v. Board of Education the…

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