Michael J. Knowles Quotes

Being 'pro-life' means standing up for all life, valuing all life.

Like the pro-slavery forces who invaded Kansas, the pro-abortion forces in Washington and elsewhere want us to believe that abortion is not murder; that being born is worse than death; that the unborn baby is property, not a person.

I happen to be pro-life.

A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust.

The 'life' in 'pro-life' denotes not the quality of life, but life itself.

I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion.

I think the next president ought to invoke the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution now that we clearly know that that baby inside the mother's womb is a person at the moment of conception.

I believe in the right to life.

All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.

We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily towards the pro-life position because the data is with us.

The only reason we have a pro-life movement in this country is because of the Catholic people and the Catholic Church.

The notion that those of us that are pro-life because we love children - is that so terrible? Really? Is that so terrible?

I just believe that we should never stop fighting on behalf of the unborn and that's what we're going to do.

I am 100 percent pro-life and have been my whole life. That means I am opposed to abortion at any stage of pregnancy, and I am opposed to embryonic stem-cell research.

Twenty-six years ago the highest court in this land did an incredible thing. They issued a Supreme Court decision that really boils down to one simple and profoundly evil idea: They said that our unborn children have no rights that the rest of us are bound to respect. And when they made that decision they unleashed on America an unbelievable event that has undermined who we are and what we believe.

There comes a time when a human being has to either face evil or admit to allowing it. Abortion is legal in the United States, but it should not be celebrated or used as a political tool. Viable babies are human beings.

I am strongly pro-life, and have fought to protect the rights of the unborn my entire career. I will continue to fight for this cause because I value the sanctity of all human life.

I think at the heart of the pro-life movement is the idea that all people are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights starting with life.

Well, I think that it's clear that the Republican Party is a pro-life party. And we do value life. And we do believe that the unborn have a right to life.

My strong personal view, which I believe is shared by millions of Americans, is that our party should make a strong statement in its platform that the unborn child has a fundamental right to life which should be protected.

Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended America's 'inalienable right to life,' it threw the Golden Rule right off the shores of this continent.

There's a lot of Democrats, myself included, who have supported right-to-life.

I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.