“Politicians argue for abortion largely because they do not want to spend the necessary money
to feed, clothe and educate more people. Here arguments for inconvenience and economic
savings take precedence over arguments for human value and human life... Psychiatrists, social
workers and doctors often argue for abortion on the basis that the child will grow up mentally
and emotionally scarred. But who of us is complete? If incompleteness were the criteri(on) for
taking life, we would all be dead. If you can justify abortion on the basis of emotional
incompleteness, then your logic could also lead you to killing for other forms of incompleteness
— blindness, crippleness, old age.”

- Jesse Jackson, January 1977