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We're always going to argue about abortion. It's a hard choice and it's controversial, and that's why I'm pro-choice, because I want people to make their own choices. -Hillary Clinton
“How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelette?” ? George Carlin
Republicans are against abortion until their daughters need one, Democrats are for abortion until their daughter wants one. ~Grace McGarvie
“To accept the fact that, after fertilization has taken place, a new human has come into being is no longer a matter of taste or opinion. The human nature of the human being from conception to old age is not a metaphysical conception. It is plain experimental evidence.”
Abortion does not make you unpregnant, it makes you mother of a dead baby!
“What an irony that a society confronted with plastic bags filled with the remains of aborted babies should be more concerned about the problem of recycling the plastic”…
George W. Bush will protect your unborn fetus then send your grown child to die in war. ~Rick Claro
“When we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.”
In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman. — Leon Kass
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between. -Mother Teresa
“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.” ? Mother Teresa
No woman wants an abortion. Either she wants a child or she wishes to avoid pregnancy. ~From a letter to the Lancet
“In medical practice, there are few surgical procedures given so little attention and so underrated in its potential hazard as abortion.”
Abortion … interferes with God’s plan- – a plan He willed before He created the universe. Abortion is in violation of God- given life. – Richard C. Halverson
“I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.”
Abortion doesn't belong in the political arena. It's a private right, like many other rights concerning the family. ~Bella Abzug
“It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. . .drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.”
Abortion on demand has, in my judgment, contributed significantly to an environment in our country in which life has become very cheap.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should… I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder. -Nancy Reagan
“No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.” ? Margaret Sanger
I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born. ~Ronald Reagan, quoted in New York Times, 1980 September 22nd
“Paradoxically, I have angry feelings at myself for feeling good about… doing a technically good procedure which destroys a fetus, kills a baby.”
Any woman who has felt a baby stir inside her [and] any man who has seen the tiny heart pulsing on an ultrasound screen, knows that abortion is about ending a life. – KAREN KISSANE
“…is it surprising that today we have become so morally blind (for wickedness blinds) that we save the baby whales at great cost, and murder millions of unborn children?”
I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue. ~Alan Simpson
“To earlier feminists who had fought for the vote and for fair treatment in the workplace, it had seemed obvious that the ready availability of abortion would facilitate the sexual exploitation of women.”
Abortion … interferes with God's plan–a plan He willed before He created the universe. Abortion is in violation of God-given life. — Richard C. Halverson
Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions. -Karl Kraus
“I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.” ? Ronald Reagan
Prior to Roe, whether one could obtain a legal abortion in the face of an unwanted pregnancy was a crap shoot. For 30 years now, it's been a constitutionally guaranteed right. ~David Garrow
“Any nation that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.”
I feel strongly against abortion, but I don’t judge other people if they do it.
“If we lived in a culture that valued women's autonomy and in which men and women practiced cooperative birth control, the abortion issue would be moot.”
The goal of the right is not to stop abortion but to demonize it, punish it and make it as difficult and traumatic as possible. All this it has accomplished fairly well, even without overturning Roe v. Wade. ~Ellen Willis
“Every 36 seconds in America a woman lays her body down forced to choose abortion out of a lack of practical resources and emotional support. Abortion is a reflection that society has failed women.”
Abortion is not a favor for the medical profession to bestow but an obligation for them to perform. — Leslie Cannold
In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman. -Italo Calvino
“It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.” ? Dorothy Parker, You Might as Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker
Only half the patients who go into an abortion clinic come out alive. ~Author unknown
“The solution [to a crisis pregnancy] is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother’s values and her attitudes toward life.”
No woman wants an abortion. Either she wants a child or she wishes to avoid pregnancy.
“I think it’s important that (Roe v. Wade) remain legal for medical reasons and other reasons.”
The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies. ~Justice Harry A. Blackmun
“Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.”
Abortion is the easy way out. It's hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.
The political Right likes to champion individual rights and individual liberty, but it has also worked to enforce morality in relation to abortion, gambling, and homosexuality. -Dave Brat
“No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.” ? Margaret Sanger
Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State. ~Edward Abbey, One Life at a Time, Please
“I hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.”
Some forms of motor neuron disease are genetically linked, but I have no indication that my kind is. No other member of my family has had it. But I would be in favour of abortion if there was a high risk. -Stephen Hawking
“Just as the unwanted pregnancy, there are unwanted people in your life you should strive to abort, and such abortion is not sin, nor harm, but the eradication of a destructive foetus.”
“The methods used to take human lives, such as abortion, the pill, the ring, etc., amounts to genocide. I believe that legal abortion is legal murder…”– Fannie Lou Hamer
Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life. — Potter Stewart
In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion. — Tony Campolo
“We don't like to kill our unborn; we need them to grow up and fight our wars.” ? Marilyn Manson
I hate that when women who had an abortion have a kid later. And the kid turns out to b a brat. Your original baby could have been an angel but he/she is one now.
With humans it's abortion, but with chickens it's an omelet. ~Attributed to George Carlin
“When we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.”
The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue. -Jim Wallis
“I bear a deep red stain that runs from my left shoulder down to my right hip, a trail left by the herbwitch's poison that my mother used to try to expel me from her womb.”
To forbid birth is only quicker murder…. He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman. — Italo Calvino
I don't think there is a good reason for an abortion, but Dr. Jasper made me really realize it was just a racket. He was just doing it for the money. He didn't care about the women. — Norma Mccorvey
“If a mother can kill her own child – what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me – there is nothing between.” ? Mother Teresa
“For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy.”
The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control. ~Ruth Bader Ginsberg, 1974
“It is a pity that…the majority of feminists and their allies have stuck to the dead ground of “Me Decade” possessive individualism, an ideology that has more in common than it admits with the prehistoric right, which it claims to oppose but has in fact encouraged.”
You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion. -Hillary Clinton
“After listening to Rick Santorum, I'm now for late-term abortions.
“If there were more “Planned Parenthoods,” there'd be fewer abortions.”
Abortion is an attack on the family and the humanity that unites us all. — Alveda King
Abortion may bury our children, but it can never bury their memory. — Shadia Hrichi
“I certainly supported a woman's right to choose, but to my mind the time to choose was before, not after the fact.” ? Ann B. Ross, Miss Julia Throws a Wedding
“Give us the grace… When the sacredness of life before birth is attacked, to stand up and proclaim that no one ever has the authority to destroy unborn life.”
No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg. ~Frederica Mathewes-Green
“A woman wants an abortion like an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its leg.”
The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth. -Robert Casey
“[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]”
“Abort the thought, save the baby”
Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty. — Robert Casey
Abortion is an atrocity. Those who practice or praise it are either damn idiots, misguided fools, or treacherous devils. — Christopher Titus
“[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.” ? Mahatma Gandhi, All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
“Let her that procures abortion undergo ten years' penance, whether the embryo were perfectly formed, or not.”
“The crowning insult [of abortion] is that this ordeal is represented to her as some kind of a privilege.Her sad and onerous duty is garbed in the rhetoric of a civil right.”
“The level of moral hypocrisy that we have required ourselves to live with in order to make abortion legal is much more evident to me now, as it must be to anyone who is genuinely willing to look at it.”
“There are two victims in every abortion: a dead baby and a dead conscience.”
“It was more like an abortion than music, but he got a wildly enthusiastic response from the crowd. Well, we're all pro-choice out here in Hillmont, after all.”
“One day you will see that what must be born will be born. Everything else will find another way.” ? Naomi Jackson
I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should… I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder. — Nancy Reagan
“Abortion is murder in the womb…A child is a gift of God. If you do not want him, give him to me.”
If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies.
Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get. — Gwendolyn Brooks
The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact. Julie Burchill
The truth is that contraception saves lives, prevents unplanned pregnancies, improves outcomes for children and reduces the number of abortions.
They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.
ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else.
I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.
The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe.