Mildred Fay Jefferson

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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
Collection: Order
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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
Collection: Children
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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
Collection: Doctors