Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty on Abortion

"At birth clinics and elsewhere, we find a shocking tolerance of abortions on a scale that amounts to mass murder of unborn babes. Guilty hands slay healthy offspring; godless women, spurning motherhood, forcibly stay the Hand of God.

In line with revealed and natural law, the Church's stand is crystal clear. Either we accept the responsibility of children as a result of marital intercourse, or heroically abstain for a time, or entirely. No other moral alternative exists. Marriage thwarting procreation becomes lust. Ill-starred the union that breaks God's law.

The mere thought of quenching the spark of life is sinful; and who so aids, abets or permits abortion forfeits the Church's communion - for this sin of sins against nature, God, child, mother and nation."

-Joseph Card. Mindszenty (The World's Most Orphaned Nation. New York: Julius Tarlo, 1962, p. 63).