Quotes about Infant Rights

Warren Farrell

When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; when we commit violence against an infant boy, we call it circumcision.

Richelle Mead

Note even Moroi give licenses to infants, Sage.

Mercedes Schlapp

If the American people - pro-choice and pro-life - cannot agree with the basic concept that the life of a baby born alive following a botched abortion should be protected, then when do the rights of these babies begin?

Peter Singer

So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we use this argument to justify experiments on nonhuman animals we have to ask ourselves whether we are also prepared to allow experiments on human infants and retarded adults; and if we make a distinction between animals and these humans, on what basis can we do it, other than a bare-faced - and morally indefensible - preference for members of our own species?

Ruta Sepetys

I looked down at the little pink face in the bundle. A newborn. The child had been alive only minutes but was already considered a criminal by the Soviets.

Victoria Woodhull

The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the fetus.

First female presidential candidate & first divorcee to run for that office. This quotation is quite remarkable for several reasons. Woodhull was far ahead of not only her time but the other feminists and suffragettes at the time in demanding equal right for all women in all thinks including free love. She was generally viewed as an amoral radical. Yet on this critical issue, the was an opponent of abortion and one of the first people to ever claim that a fetus had rights.
While most people at the time opposed abortion, it was based on religious doctrine. Woodhull based her opposition on an equal rights argument—perhaps the first American to do so. Note, that like other feminist leaders of the time, she opposed abortion. However, between the economic pressures and the illegality of birth control devices and information provision, abortion was a critical decision that had to be faced by many women. Later, feminist leadership had to come to grips with the issue of who makes the decision in these areas, and placed the right of the woman to make these decisions, as opposed to husbands, fathers and government, as the highest priority. Then, when the drivers for abortion could not be eliminated, it was women who were criminalized. Feminists then fought for the right of abortion and the right of the woman to make decisions, but feminine leadership has never—in America—been advocates of abortion as opposed to the right of abortion, a subtlety that often is lost.

Sean Duffy

My liberal friends, Congressional Black Caucus members, talk about fighting for the defenseless, the hopeless, and the downtrodden. There is no one more hopeless and voiceless than an unborn baby, but their silence is deafening. I can't hear them. Where are they standing up for their communities, advocating and fighting for their right to life?

Infant Rights Quotes