QUOTATION: Expose Pro-Abortion Contradictions

There is a tremendous disconnect at every level of our society regarding abortion, and as a result, the child in the womb has become the great blind spot of our culture. This disconnect is fueled by denial and fraught with the most blatantly absurd contradictions that the human mind can conjure. To advance justice for the unborn, we have to challenge these contradictions and expose them.

--Fr. Frank Pavone, Abolishing Abortion

QUOTATION: When Will We End Abortion?

We will end abortion when enough of us grow restless, when we connect, both mentally and emotionally, with the human tragedy abortion represents, when we drink deeply of that spiritual imperative and become inebriated with holy impatience.

--Fr. Frank Pavone, Abolishing Abortion

QUOTATION: We Must All Repent of Abortion

We need to see abortion not just as somebody else’s sin but our sin. Even if we have never participated in an abortion, we must ask forgiveness for it. It is easy to blame abortion on those who do it and support it. But we must blame ourselves as well. This is spiritual dynamic that has to undergird all of our other activities to abolish abortion. First and foremost we are called to repent, to take responsibility for the innocent blood that has been shed, and then to intervene to save the helpless.

--Fr. Frank Pavone, Abolishing Abortion

QUOTATION: We're All Responsible for Abortion

Our land is polluted with the innocent blood of tens of millions of aborted children. The fact that we are ourselves have not done the killing does not absolve us responsibility.

--Fr. Frank Pavone, Abolishing Abortion

QUOTATION: Fear is the Biggest Obstacle

The most daunting obstacle that stands between us and a culture of life is the fear in our hearts. This fear leads us to doubt whether we really should risk everything and sacrifice all.

--Fr. Frank Pavone, Abolishing Abortion

QUOTATION: Beginning the Fight Against Abortion

We begin our repentance by renouncing our cowardice, by regretting our silence, by rejecting our fear of risk and loss, our skewed priorities and attachments. Indeed, the fight against abortion does not start in the political arena or in abortion clinics. The obstacles to a culture of life, and the enemies arrayed against it, are not primarily the massive funding of Planned Parenthood or the pervasive bias in the secular media. The biggest obstacles are inside of us. They are the lies we tell ourselves, the fears to which we willingly submit, and the pretense of ignorance about what we really have to do next.

--Fr. Frank Pavone, Abolishing Abortion

QUOTATION: Abolishing Abortion

Many friends ask me, “What is our first spiritual duty regarding the abortion issue?” They think I am going to answer, “prayer.”  But actually, the answer is repentance. The first step in abolishing abortion is to examine our own hearts and to repent of the role we each have played in allowing this holocaust to happen.

--Fr. Frank Pavone, Abolishing Abortion

QUOTATION: Protecting Innocent Life

Just as we cannot justify killing our neighbor with the excuse, “I did not believe he had a soul,” so we cannot justify the killing of the child in the womb with the same rationale. The goal of the pro-life movement is not to impose our beliefs on anyone, but rather to protect the innocent from those who believe they can be killed.

--Fr. Frank Pavone, Abolishing Abortion

QUOTATION: Raising the Abortion Issue

When we try to raise the [abortion] issue and press for resolution, we find obstacles at every turn:

• When we speak about abortion in church, we’re told it’s too political.
• When we speak about it in the political arena, we’re told it’s too religious.
• When we try to raise the issue in the media, we’re told it is too disturbing.
• When we dare speak of it in the world of business, we are told it is too distracting.
• When we try to introduce it in a classroom, we are told it’s too controversial.
• When we take our message to the streets, we are told it is too disruptive.

So if abortion is wrong, where do we go to say so? We go where the opposition does not want us to: into the churches, into politics, into the media, into the business world, into education, and into the streets!

--Fr. Frank Pavone, Abolishing Abortion 

QUOTATION: Pro-Abortion Censorship

The opposition tries to keep those who are pro-life out of the public square precisely for this reason: they know that if they let us in, they lose.

--Fr. Frank Pavone, Abolishing Abortion, 2015.

QUOTATION: How People Stop Themselves from Being Pro-Life

People know that abortion is happening, but they also realize that if they look at it too closely, they will not be able to live at peace with themselves unless they try to stop it. At the same time, they know that if they try to stop it there will be a price to pay. They may lose friends or face other kinds of opposition. They don’t want to make the sacrifice necessary to confront injustice. What, then, is their solution to this dilemma? Ignore the problem altogether. Denial protects them from the pain of the situation.

--Fr. Frank Pavone

QUOTATION: Contraception and Abortion

We need to realize that a society in which contraceptives are widely used is going to have a very difficult time keeping free of abortions since the lifestyles and attitudes that contraception fosters create an alleged 'need' for abortion.

--Janet Smith

QUOTATION: The Right to Life

Every human being, even a child in the mother's womb has a right to life directly from God and not from the parents or from any society or authority.  Hence there is no man, no human authority, no science, no medical, eugenic, social, economic or moral 'indication' that can offer or produce a valid juridical title to a direct deliberate disposal of an innocent human life; that is to say, a disposal that aims at its destruction whether as an end or as a means to another end, which is, perhaps, in no way unlawful in itself.

--Pius XII, Allocution to Large Families, November 26, 1951

QUOTATION: Human Life

Here I feel it urgent to state that, if the family is the sanctuary of life, the place where life is conceived and cared for, it is a horrendous contradiction when it becomes a place where life is rejected and destroyed. 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, Amoris Laetitia, 83

QUOTATION: The Right to Life

Courage is required to restate the most essential things : Thou shalt not kill. We cannot dispose of a human being at his birth nor at his death. Life belongs to God. If man arrogates the right to dispose of his brother’s life, we no longer live in a culture where there is equality of rights, we are in culture where the rights of the strongest dominate. The strongest imposes his right, his supposed right, more exactly. What we have defined as the right to abortion is not a true right because it violates another’s rights. We must recall these things, enter into conflict with the dominant culture up to a certain point, at least in certain countries, and thus risk exposing ourselves to criticism. Witnessing to the truth in the name of Christ obliges us to this audacious claim, which must always be spoken with respect.

--Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Actualité et avenir du Concile oecuménique Vatican II

QUOTATION: Abortion

Abortion is never the lesser evil, it’s a crime. It’s to discard one to save another one. It’s what Mafia does; it’s a crime, an absolute evil.

--Pope Francis,  February 17, 2016

QUOTATION: Why the Abortion Holocaust?

Over the years I have been telling one audience after another, one of the main reasons for the worldwide homicide of millions of innocent unborn children is because Catholics are not living up to practicing their faith.

--Fr. John Hardon

QUOTATION: The Child About to Be Aborted

Every child that isn't born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.

--Pope Francis

QUOTATION: Environmentalism Incompatible with Abortion

Since everything is interrelated, concern for the protection of nature is also incompatible with the justification of abortion. How can we genuinely teach the importance of concern for other vulnerable beings, however troublesome or inconvenient they may be, if we fail to protect a human embryo, even when its presence is uncomfortable and creates difficulties?

--Pope Francis, Laudato Si, 120

QUOTATION: Abortion

Abortion is the greatest victory the devil has achieved since Original Sin.

--Alice von Hildebrand