Infant Death Quotes

When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount of happiness will be greater if the disabled infant is killed. The loss of happy life for the first infant is outweighed by the gain of happier life for the second. Therefore, if killing the hemophiliac infant has no adverse effect on others, it would, according to the total view, be right to kill him.

Hell is paved with infants skulls.

She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled!

My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive.

No child should die in the dawn of life.

You never see a child die from education on TV. But make no mistake about it: children die from lack of education all the time. Children without an education are more likely to grow up to have HIV/AIDS. They're more likely to die in infancy or before the age of five.

Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.

I lost twins at 14 weeks, and I had to have an D and C on my birthday.

My mother had had six children in five and a half years, and three of them died in that time.

It never enters the lady's head that the wet-nurse's baby probably dies.

We experienced a miscarriage at 13 weeks and then a few years later we lost our son Willem at 30 weeks. I held him in my arms and had to organise his funeral.

It is terrible when an infant dies, but worse, most people think, when a three-year-old child dies, and worse still when an adolescent does.

I must oppose the use of federal funds for a policy of killing infants.

But poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children. The tender plant is produced, but in so cold a soil, and so severe a climate, soon withers and dies.

In 1900, 180-plus out of every 1,000 African-American babies died.

For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.

I was the only child born to Josephine Perry that survived. Mama had six other children before me, and all had passed very quickly and very young, all succumbing to a combination of illness and disease and the lack of strength to fight off both.

Remember that a woman who has given birth to a dead child has given birth and is recovering physically, too. Don't be afraid of grieving parents.

There is no other even moderately equal abuse than the murder of little baby girls - nothing else compares with that, in horror.