Fetus Quotes

• We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Children, Worry, Choices

  "Joycelyn Elders is Back!". "The Rush Limbaugh Show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. March 13, 2014.

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• I think we have deluded ourselves into believing that people don't know that abortion is killing. So any pretense that abortion is not killing is a signal of our ambivalence, a signal that we cannot say yes, it kills a fetus.

  Faye Wattleton

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "In Their Own Words: Pro-Lifers Aren’t the Only Ones Who Call Abortion Killing". townhall.com. November 30, 2015.

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• Writing is like carrying a fetus.

  Edna O'Brien

  Writing

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• With respect to those meanings of 'human' that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig.

  Richard Dawkins

  Pigs, Abortion, Adults

  Richard Dawkins‏ @RichardDawkins, twitter.com. March 13, 2013.

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• In our case, murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the foetus in the womb, while as yet the human being derives blood from other parts of the body for its sustenance. To hinder a birth is merely a speedier mankilling; nor does it matter whether you take away a life that is born, or destroy one that is coming to the birth. That is a man which is going to be one; you have the fruit already in the seed.

  Tertullian

  Men, Blood, Abortion

  "The Sacred Writings of Tertullian".

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• The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn from limb from limb. The fetus can be alive at the beginning of the dismemberment process and can survive for a time while its limbs are being torn off.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Children, Adults, Alive

  United States Supreme Court, Stenberg, Attorney General of Nebraska, et al. v. Carhart, (2000), No. 99-830, caselaw.findlaw.com. June 28, 2000.

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• In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.

  Leon Kass

  Pregnancy, Abortion, Pits

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• The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happened to the pregnant woman, for those who harm a fetus.

  Ken Calvert

  Pregnancy, Criminals, Penalties

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• The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.

  John Gregory Dunne

  Umbilical Cord, Literature, Narrative

  John Gregory Dunne (2013). “Crooning”, p.198, Zola Books

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• Make it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime.

  Jerry Weller

  Crime, Harm

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• It is said that life begins when the fetus can exist apart from its mother. By this definition, many people in Hollywood are legally dead.

  Jay Leno

  Life, Mother, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Pain, Winning

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.

  Nathan Deal

  Agriculture, Purpose, Research

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• If a woman plans to terminate her pregnancy, she commonly refers to the life within her as the 'fetus'. But if she intends to deliver and love and care for the little child, she affectionately calls him 'my baby'.

  James Dobson

  Baby, Children, Pregnancy

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• What it gives any human being a right to - to pick and choose which embryo - which fetus is more valuable than another. That's is not up to human beings.

  Nadya Suleman

  Giving, Valuable, Embryos

  "Her side of the story". "Dateline" with Ann Curry, www.nbcnews.com. February 10, 2009.

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• To destroy the fetus 'is something worse than murder.' The one who does this 'does not take away life that has already been born, but prevents it from being born.'

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Abortion, Doe, Murder

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• The Eternal Being, who knows everything and who created the whole universe, became not only a man but (before that) a baby, and before that a fetus in a woman's body.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, Baby, Inspiration

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• I like to think of myself less like 'an adult' and more like a 'former fetus.'

  Anna Kendrick

  Thinking, Adults, Former

  Anna Kendrick @AnnaKendrick47, twitter.com. April 24, 2014.

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• Scientifically, there's no debate over whether the fetus is alive and human.

  Ron Paul

  Abortion, Alive, Debate

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• With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus.

  David Levithan

  Three, Forty, Dues

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• You may be surprised to learn that, in our law, although the fetus is currently without the right to life, it does have some rights. For instance, under civil law, the unborn child has the right to inherit part of his father's estate should his father die before he is born, and he has the right to sue his Mother, or a doctor, for injuiries sustained while in the womb.

  Janet E. Smith

  Mother, Children, Father

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• How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender fetuses, although procreation is the work of God.

  Martin Luther

  Girl, Christian, Abortion

  Martin Luther, Helmut T. Lehmann (1986). “Luther's Works: Lectures on Genesis”

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• If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field,...it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.

  John Calvin

  Men, Light, House

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• I'm honestly perplexed about the distinction represented by the cervical wall. On one side, people should be prosecuted if they do anything to harm the fetus, but once on the outside, sorry kid, whatever happens happens. You're on your own.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Wall, Sorry, Kids

  "Republicans: What About Children Outside the Womb?" by Gov. Jennifer Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2012.

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• No doctor is going to do an abortion on a live fetus. That doesn't happen. Doctors don't do that. If they do, they'll get their license pulled, as well they should.

  Howard Dean

  Doctors, Abortion, Should

  Teleconference with reporters, January 15, 2004.

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