“As a nation today, we have not rejected the sanctity of human life. The American people have not had an opportunity to express their view on the sanctity of human life in the unborn. I am convinced that Americans do not want to play God with the value of human life. It is not for us to decide who is worthy to live and who is not. Even the Supreme Court's opinion in Roe v. Wade did not explicitly reject the traditional American idea of intrinsic worth and value in all human life; it simply dodged this issue.”
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985), Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation (1983)
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“Consider also our approach to the sanctity and value of human life.”
Nobel lecture (2005)
Context: Consider also our approach to the sanctity and value of human life. In the aftermath of the September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, we all grieved deeply, and expressed outrage at this heinous crime — and rightly so. But many people today are unaware that, as the result of civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 3.8 million people have lost their lives since 1998.
Are we to conclude that our priorities are skewed, and our approaches uneven?

1980s, First term of office (1981–1985), Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation (1983)

Gloria Allred. 1990 Gloria Allred testimony before United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Publication Title: Hearings on the Nomination of David H. Souter to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, September 13, 14, 17, 18, and 19, 1990. Category: Congressional Committee Materials. Collection: Additional Government Publications. Publication name: Supreme Court Nomination Hearings. Date issued: September 13, 1990. Congress. 101st Congress, 2nd Session. www.gpo.gov http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CHRG-SOUTER/pdf/GPO-CHRG-SOUTER-5-2-1.pdf, more info at S. Hrg. 101-1263 at www.gpo.gov http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/granule/GPO-CHRG-SOUTER/GPO-CHRG-SOUTER-2-4-1-5-3

Price Statement on March for Life https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trumps-new-hhs-secretary-there-is-nothing-more-fundamental-to-our-humanity (January 24, 2011)

1980s, First term of office (1981–1985), Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation (1983)

Source: Government trying to play God with proposed medical research law, Bishop warns https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/7999/government-trying-to-play-god-with-proposed-medical-research-law-bishop-warns (6 November 2006)

“The real question today is not when human life begins, but, What is the value of human life?”
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985), Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation (1983)
Created from Animals: The Moral Implications of Darwinism (1990), p. 5