Dawn Johnsen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The woman is constantly aware for nine months that her body is not wholly her own: the state has conscripted her body for its own ends. Thus, abortion restrictions 'reduce pregnant women to no more than fetal containers.'
-- Dawn Johnsen

#Abortion #Body #Nine
Statutes that curtail her abortion choice are disturbingly suggestive of involuntary servitude, prohibited by the Thirteenth Amendment, in that forced pregnancy requires a woman to provide continuous physical service to the fetus in order to further the state's asserted interest.
-- Dawn Johnsen

#Pregnancy #Order #Choices
Progressives must not portray all abortions as tragedies. . . Senator Hillary Clinton, in a 2005 speech commendable for setting forth a prochoice, pro-prevention, pro-family agenda, took the aspiration a step in the wrong direction when she called for policy changes so that abortion 'does not ever have to be exercised or only in very rare circumstances.
-- Dawn Johnsen

#Abortion #Tragedy #Doe
The experience is no longer traumatic; the response of most women to the experience is relief.
-- Dawn Johnsen

#Relief #Response
The argument that women who become pregnant have in some sense consented to the pregnancy belies realityand others who are the inevitable losers in the contraceptive lottery no more 'consent' to pregnancy than pedestrians 'consent' to being struck by drunk drivers.'
-- Dawn Johnsen

#Pregnancy #Drunk #Loser
The 'terrorist' behavior of petitioners is remarkably similar to the conspiracy of violence and intimidation carried out by the Ku Klux Klan.
-- Dawn Johnsen

#Ku Klux Klan #Violence #Intimidation
Abortion restrictions 'reduce pregnant women to no more than fetal containers.'
-- Dawn Johnsen

#Abortion #Restriction #Pregnant Women

Abortion can never be safe. Any procedure where "success" means the killing of another human being can certainly not be safe.
I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.
A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.
Andrew Saul is John Hall in a business suit. He's wrong on the war, on national security, immigration, abortion. He's Sue Kelly all over again.
Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.
You are not a body. You have a body. You are a soul.
When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.
What I do for a living is re-create human emotion, and that's a pretty weird thing to do from nine till five.
If you do not give the tenth part to God, he will take the nine parts.
Maybe I'm misjudging people, but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old.

Dawn Johnsen famous quotes

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