Abortion

Abortion

Abortion, which has increased enormously, causes one to ask, "Have we strayed so far from God's second great commandment-love thy neighbor-that a baby in a womb no longer qualifies to be loved-at least as a mother's neighbor?" (Ensign, May 1993, p. 76.)

If the nearly one-and-a-half million babies aborted in America each year could, somehow, vote, chameleon candidates would find fresh reasons to be concerned about abortion, whereas now they are unconcerned. (Dictated December 1996.)

When we don't like to face up to hard facts, we use soft words. We do not speak about killing a baby within the womb, but about"termination of potential life." Words are often multiplied to try to cover dark deeds. (Things As They Really Are, p. 55.)


(Cory H. Maxwell, ed., The Neal A. Maxwell Quote Book [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1997], xvii.)