Category: Famous Pro-Lifers

In a recent interview in Rolling Stone magazine, Beiber revealed that he is pro-life. He says:

“I really don’t believe in abortion. It’s like killing a baby?”

“Justin Bieber says he’s Pro-Life on Abortion, Wait for Sex” Stephen Ertelt LifeNews

Brooke Shields, Actress and Model:

“Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that’s very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.”

(Source: Redbook Magazine, 8/91)

Actress Kate Mulgrew, who played Captain Janeway on the show Star Trek Voyager, and who herself put up a child for adoption:

“Life is sacred to me on all levels. Abortion does not compute with my philosophy.”

Feminists for Life Reveals Prominent Pro-Life Women, a National Catholic Register article by Joshua Mercer, along with quotes from www.feministsforlife.org and www.womendeservebetter.com

Patricia Heaton, Academy award-winning actress who appeared on Everybody Loves Raymond and elsewhere:

“The early feminists were pro-life. And really, abortion is a huge disservice to women, and it hasn’t been presented that way. As Feminists for Life-what we’re trying to do is support women, and so what we want to do is-reach women on campus-college campuses so that, when they get pregnant, they can find housing. They can find money they need to stay in school.”

(Sources: www.feministsforlife.org and an appearance on The O’Reilly Factor – Sept. 2002)

“I was once pro-choice and the thing that changed my mind was, I read my husband’s biology books, medical books, and what I learned . . . At the moment of conception, a life starts. And this life has its own unique set of DNA, which contains a blueprint for the whole genetic makeup. The sex is determined. We know there’s a life because it’s growing and changing.”

Said during a debate on the television show “Politically Incorrect” with host Bill Mahr. quoted by Pro-Life America.com

Ken Kesey, author of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest:

“You are you from conception, and that never changes no matter what physical changes your body takes. And the virile sport in the Mustang driving to work with his muscular forearm tanned and ready for a day’s labor has not one microgram more right to his inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness than has the three months foetus riding in a sack of water…How can abortion be anything but fascism again, back as a fad in a new intellectual garb with a new, and more helpless, victim?”

“An Impolite Interview with Ken Kesey” by Paul Krassner, The Realist Vol 90 Dec 1971

Theodore Roosevelt revealed his pro-life convictions when he was quoted saying:

It was really heartrending to have to see the kinfolk and friends of murderers who were condemned to death, and among the very rare occasions when anything governmental or official caused me to lose sleep were times when I had to listen to some poor mother making a plea for a “criminal” so wicked, so utterly brutal and depraved, that it would have been a crime on my part to remit his punishment. On the other hand, there were certain crimes where requests for leniency merely made me angry. Such crimes were, for instance, rape, or the circulation of indecent literature, or anything connected with what would now be called the “white slave” traffic, or wife murder, or gross cruelty to women or children, or seduction and abandonment, or the action of some man in getting a girl whom he seduced to commit abortion. In an astonishing number of these cases men of high standing signed petitions or wrote letters asking me to show leniency to the criminal. In two or three of the cases one where some young roughs had committed rape on a helpless immigrant girl, and another in which a physician of wealth and high standing had seduced a girl and then induced her to commit abortion I rather lost my temper, and wrote to the individuals who had asked for the pardon, saying that I extremely regretted that it was not in my power to increase the sentence. I then let the facts be made public, for I thought that my petitioners deserved public censure. Whether they received this public censure or not I did not know, but that my action made them very angry I do know, and their anger gave me real satisfaction.

Theodore Roosevelt, A Biography 305 (1913)