Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Mildred Fay Jefferson

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Mildred Fay Jefferson was an American physician and anti-abortion political activist. The first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School, the first woman to graduate in surgery from Harvard Medical School and the first woman to become a member of the Boston Surgical Society, she is known for her opposition to the legalization of abortion and her work as president of the National Right to Life Committee.

American - Physician | April 4, 1926 - October 15, 2010

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The doctor who willingly accepts destroying life will have no grounds on which to object if the state should compel that doctor to destroy life.

Mildred Fay Jefferson

I became a physician in order to help save lives. I am at once a physician, a citizen, and a woman, and I am not willing to stand aside and allow the concept of expendable human lives to turn this great land of ours into just another exclusive reservation where only the perfect, the privileged, and the planned have the right to live.

Mildred Fay Jefferson

The fight for the right to life is not the cause of a special few, but the cause of every man, woman and child who cares not only about his or her own family, but the whole family of man.

Mildred Fay Jefferson

Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Mildred Fay Jefferson

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