"The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies."

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Source : "Thornburgh vs. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists". "Abortion and Protection of the Human Fetus: Legal Problems in a Cross-Cultural Perspective". Book by George F. Cole and Stanisław Frankowski, 1987.

Harry A. Blackmun

#Pregnancy Quotes #Feminist Quotes #Intimidating Quotes

“My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.”
“In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.”
“As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.”
“I believe that the confidence, really being okay with myself, and really being okay with my gift have grown over the years. It just came with time, and it came with getting my feelings hurt, a few times, and realizing to stop performing for people but if perform for God, who gave you the talent, then you can care less about what any casting directors, producers, or what any of them think. You're doing it for a higher purpose. If they don't like it, that's okay! God does.”
“When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like.”

Source : "Carrie-Anne Moss for “Suspect Zero”". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. August 10, 2004.
“Unity is not blind allegiance.”
“Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.”
“We all feel a separateness; we wish that a drop of water would soften our ego; the world needs a common conscience: agreement... we must concentrate outside ourselves.”

Source : Bahai lecture; as quoted in "Abstract Expressionist Painting in America", W.C. Seitz, 1983, pp. 66/67, 1951.

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