On the Value of Life by former US President Ronald W Reagan

President Ronald Reagan also showed his pro-life stand when upon being asked by a reporter about abortion during a 1984 press conference he replied, 

"I notice that all those people who favor abortion have already been born."

In his book, there are a lot more of important statements which we can use to support our pro-life stand. 

"I have also said that anyone who doesn't feel sure whether we are talking about a second life should clearly give life the benefit of the doubt. If you don't know whether a body is alive or dead, you would never bury it. I think this consideration itself should be enough for all of us to insist in protecting the unborn."

"The abortionist who reassembles the arms and legs of a tiny baby to make sure all its parts have been torn from its mother's body can hardly doubt whether it is a human being. The real question for him and for all of us is whether that tiny human life has a God-given right to be protected by the law - the same right we have ..."

"The 1981 Senate hearings on the beginning of human life brought out the basic issue more clearly than ever before. The many medical and scientific witnesses who testified disagree on many things, but not on the scientific evidence that the unborn child is alive, is a distinctive individual, or is a member of the human species ..."

"We will never recognize the true value of our own lives until we affirm the value in the life of others."

"Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide ... There is no cause more important than affirming the transcendent right to life of all human beings, the right without which no other rights have any meaning." 

And he goes on to quote the beginning statement of the Declaration of Independence, described as "the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty",

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

For more about former US President Ronald W Reagan.

For more about his book, Abortion and the Conscience of a Nation.