Bill O'Reilly Quotes

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

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.

Pro-lifers believe there are two victims in an abortion: the unborn child and the woman who felt that that was her best option.

I believe that abortion is the taking of human life.

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

In the eyes of the Catholic Church, abortion is a tragedy. Our principle objective must be to try and win greater sympathy for that perspective and for the value of human life from its beginnings.

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.

In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion.

I think abortion is murder.

No reasonable person denies that fetal life is life.

The value of life must always prevail over the value of abortion .... Choose life; your parents did.

We acknowledge the diversity of deeply held convictions within our fellowship even as we seek to interpret the Scriptures under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Many American Baptists believe that, biblically, human life begins at conception, that abortion is immoral and a destruction of a human being created in God's image … Many others believe that while abortion is a regrettable reality, it can be a morally acceptable action and they choose to act on the biblical principles of compassion and justice … and freedom of will. … Many gradations of opinion between these basic positions have been expressed within our fellowship.

If you really think abortion is murder, how can you carve out exceptions?

The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.

I'm pro-life. I believe in life at conception.

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.

Society cannot escape what is essentially a moral question: When does human life deserve legal protection from the state? And society certainly cannot escape this dilemma by denying that it is fundamentally a moral issue, no matter what position one chooses.

I believe that abortion is morally wrong.

Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life.

. . . the sin of abortion, or the destruction of unborn children - lies somewhere a close kin to the crime of destroying human life and certainly to be condemned.

With regard to the freedom of the individual for choice with regard to abortion, there is one individual who is not being considered at all, and that is the one who is being aborted. And I have noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

I happen to be pro-life.

The right to life is the first human right. Abortion is killing someone that cannot defend himself.

I have to certainly stand for life. I know that there are some who disagree, and I respect their point of view. But I believe that life begins at conception. The only exception I have to have on abortion is in that case - of the life of the mother. I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize life is that gift from God.

Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents.