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: Fighting Oppression

We don’t fight oppression by “agreeing to disagree” with the oppressor. It is precisely when the oppressor disagrees that we have to intervene to stop the violence.

--Fr. Frank Pavone, Abolishing Abortion

QUOTATION: Scientism

Scientism is not discoverable through the scientific method. Where did you empirically verify and test through experimentation that only scientific knowledge is valuable? Scientism is a philosophical position and therefore self-refuting.

--Robert Barron, Speech, Catholic Convocation, Orlando FL, July 4^th, 2017.

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: Human Rights

Human rights are not granted by political systems. They are “pre-political.” They exist before government and, in fact, must be honored, served, and secured by government, not because the leaders of government say so, but because to fail to do so undermines the very purpose of government.

--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: Life, the Most Fundamental Freedom

To be free, a person must first be alive. To deprive a person of life is to deprive that person of liberty. It stands to reason, literally, that the very right to life has to be respected and protected. Life is an even more fundamental right than freedom.

--Fr. Frank Pavone, Abolishing Abortion

QUOTATION: Religious Liberty

The Church does not defend religious liberty based on the idea that all religions are equal. The Church defends religious liberty based on the idea that all people are equal. We are all icons of God. The divinely instilled dignity that we all share requires each of us to embrace the truth freely, without coercion—just as God acts without coercion in perfect freedom.

--Fr. Frank Pavone, Abolishing Abortion 

QUOTATION: No Rest for Pro-Lifers

The champions of abortion do not rest. Neither can we. The battle to defend the children in the womb—that one segment of humanity whose rights are most cruelly denied—is a battle for humanity itself. And it is worth everything.

--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: The Church and Politics

The problem is not that the Church is too political; the problem is that our politics is too pagan.

--Fr. Frank Pavone

QUOTATION: Injustice

You don't adapt to injustice; you oppose it.

--Father Frank Pavone

QUOTATION: Pro-Life and Forgiveness

We who reject abortion do not reject those who have had abortions. Rather, we embrace them with forgiveness and peace.

--Fr. Frank Pavone