Quotes about Deformities

Margaret Sanger

What a priceless ideal for mothers to follow! To continue bearing children misshapen, deformed, hideous to the eyes, in the hope that Heaven may be filled! It’s a monstrous doctrine, abhorrent of every civilized instinct in us.

Liz Szabo

Zika could become the newest flashpoint in America’s debate on abortion. With nearly 1,000 pregnant women in the U.S. infected with Zika and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advising all expectant mothers to be screened for exposure to the virus, the USA is beginning to get a hint about why the issue became so contentious in Latin America this year.

Rome

A notably deformed child shall be killed immediately.

Aristotle

From deformed parents, deformed offspring come to be.

Though a great early science, he was ignorant of the many non-genetic factors that could cause deformities in children ranging from nutritional deficiency to improper delivery techniques. Even in the genetic area he had no inkling of mutations where deformities develop and have NOTHING to do with either parent’s genetic history. Last, he did not realize that a large proportion of all pregnancies abort before the mother even realizes that she was pregnant.

Rome

A dreadfully deformed child shall be killed.

This is the earliest surviving attempt of the Romans to formulate a legal code.

Francis Galton

It is far more humane to prevent suffering than to alleviate it after it has occurred.

Maria Montessori

Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities.

Larry Gostin

I could foresee some terrific political and legal battles if women find out they have Zika in the later terms of their pregnancy.

The Zika, virus, when contracted by a pregnant woman, has a high likelihood of deforming the fetus so that if the fetus is carried to term, the baby will have a very small head with a raft of mental and physical impairments that go with that condition. The consequence of the 2016 Zika outbreak was many more women wishing to have abortions and a great dilemma for man abortion opponents.

Isobelle Carmody

Oh yes. It's open all right, but not many people come in here to look at me now so there's no point in selling tickets. No one is interested in a man who professes to be a monster. They'll give me notice very soon. I started out being a great attraction, but people soon understood that what fascinated them about me was no more than the reflection of their own deformities. All I do is how them what is inside themselves,' He added mournfully.

James Fenimore Cooper

We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true; though happily for human nature, gleamings of that pure spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned, are to be seen, relieving its deformities, and mitigating, if not excusing its crimes.

Cynthia Nixon

Nancy Reagan would just run up to these kids [with really painful disabilities and deformities] and hold them and pick them up... because I think she felt so judged all the time and she felt so unlovable.

Deformities Quotes