Edward Abbey on abortion

Beware the writer who always encloses the word reality in quotation marks: He’s trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a Juniper tree or the wings of a vulture-that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves.

It is a very great poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

Mother Teresa1910–1997Quoted in the U.S. Congressional Record, vol. 129 (June 27, 1983), p. 17319

I’ve noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

Ronald Reagan1911–2004Anderson-Reagan Presidential Debate (21 September 1980)

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion, because if a mother can kill her own child what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Mother Teresa1910–1997Her Nobel Lecture given upon receiving the Peace Prize (December 11, 1979).