German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed by the Nazis for opposing Hitler and plotting, with others, to assassinate him. He said the following about abortion:
“Destruction in the mother’s womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life… The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Ethics [translated by Neville Horton Smith] (New York: Macmillan, 1955) 131
Quoted in Terry Schlossberg and Elizabeth Achtemeier Not My Own: Abortion & the Marks of the Church (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995)
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