Abortion famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Abortion can never be safe. Any procedure where "success" means the killing of another human being can certainly not be safe.
-- Abby Johnson -
Just because something happens to be legal does not make it moral, ethical or right. Abortion is perhaps one of the most dramatic examples of a situation where something is legal, but is very much a sin against God.
-- Al Barry -
It is my deep personal conviction that abortion is wrong. I hope that some day we will see the current outrageously large number of abortions drop sharply...let me assure you that I share youR belief that innocent human life must be protected.
-- Al Gore -
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 K. Simpson -
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.
-- Alan Keyes -
Black Americans make up 10 or 11% of the population, but they account now for something of 40 to 45% of all the abortions. This is a privileged position that I'm not sure anyone in their right mind would aspire to.
-- Alan Keyes -
Either you can subscribe to the American creed which says that God endowed us with our rights, or you can subscribe to the abortion creed which says that those rights are the consequences of our mother's will.
-- Alan Keyes -
If the Declaration of Independence states our creed, there can be no right to abortion, since it means denying the most fundamental right of all to the unborn child, the right to life.
-- Alan Keyes -
Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.
-- Alice Paul -
The diabolical work that has taken place since the legalization of abortion is that it has destroyed, in those tragic women who have allowed their child to be murdered, their sense for the sacredness of maternity. Abortion not only murders the innocent; it spiritually murders women... the wound created in their souls is so great that only God's grace can heal it. The very soul of a woman is meant to be maternal.
-- Alice von Hildebrand -
Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.
-- Alice Walker -
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.
-- Alveda King -
In the 21st Century, the anti-traditional marriage community is in league with the anti-life community, and together with the NAACP and other sympathizers, they are seeking a world where homosexual marriage and abortion will supposedly set the captives free.
-- Alveda King -
A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations.
-- Alveda King -
Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error.
-- Alveda King -
Abortion is an attack on the family and the humanity that unites us all.
-- Alveda King -
The rich women, to avoid dividing the inheritance among many, kill their own fetus in the womb and with murderous juices extinguish in the genital chamber their children.
-- Ambrose -
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.
-- Andrew Saul -
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 -
I believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the will of the former.
-- Anna Quindlen -
If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.
-- Antonin Scalia -
I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule.
-- Arlen Specter -
The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.
-- Ashley Montagu -
Listen to the pregnant woman. Value her. She values the life growing inside her. Listen to the pregnant woman, and you cannot help but defend her right to abortion.
-- Ayelet Waldman -
To look at the issue of life and abortion, actually we're moving in that direction where most Americans oppose most abortions.
-- Barack Obama -
The Democrats are using the human trafficking bill's language that's been there for 40 years, regarding the use of federal funds for abortion.
-- Barack Obama -
They [ Respublicans] wanna argue the sensational which is about abort not certain cases of abortion, but the fact is it's a fundamental disrespect for women - women's judgment about the sizing and time of their families.
-- Barack Obama -
Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God's will-they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths.
-- Barack Obama -
My abortion was so long ago I didn't think I needed help. I hoped God had forgiven me but I hadn't realized I didn't forgive myself. After attending this safe, nurturing group I know that I am forgiven and set free.
-- Barbara -
I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
-- Barbara Bush -
I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
-- Barbara Bush -
Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan, "Adoption, not Abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective.
-- Barbara Ehrenreich -
A woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.
-- Barry Goldwater -
We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.
-- Bart Stupak -
Abortion doesn't belong in the political arena. It's a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
-- Bella Abzug -
We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. We succeeded because the time was right and the news media cooperated. We sensationalized the effects of illegal abortions, and fabricated polls which indicated that 85 percent of the public favored unrestricted abortion, when we knew it was only 5 percent. We unashamedly lied, and yet our statements were quoted [by the media] as though they had been written in law.
-- Bernard Nathanson -
Fewer women would have abortions if wombs had windows.
-- Bernard Nathanson -
We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.
-- Bernard Nathanson -
There is no longer serious doubt in my mind that human life exists from the very onset of pregnancy.
-- Bernard Nathanson -
Abortion is an act of desperation. It's an awful solution to a situation that God can work out for good through adoption.
-- Bob Carlisle -
Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!
-- Bob Dole -
Garrett Hardin. Parenthood: Right or Privilege? Science Magazine.
-- Bob Marshall -
Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.
-- Bob McDonnell -
I don't think the objective of an abortion clinic is to try to talk women out of having the procedure. That obviously would not be positive for their bottom line.
-- Bob McDonnell -
Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.
-- Brooke Shields -
The baby's life is never willfully destroyed because the mother's life is in danger.
-- C. Everett Koop -
The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.
-- Caitlin Moran -
Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.
-- Camille Paglia -
Child murderers practice their profession without let or hindrance, and open infant butcheries unquestioned...Is there no remedy for all this ante-natal child murder?
-- Caroline Norton -
If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.
-- Carter Heyward -
I can't imagine any reasonably responsible person arguing against the abortion of mongols ... If we could tell what foetuses are going to be affected with cancer in their 40s and 50s, I would be for aborting them now.
-- Cecil Jacobson -
We applaud Congress for extending equitable abortion coverage to female Peace Corps volunteers.
-- Cecile Richards -
Thats what abortion is - killing innocent humans for money. Abortionists are government licensed hit men.
-- Charley Reese -
If you want to prevent abortions, you make sure everyone has health care, a high school education and birth control. Not the exact opposite.
-- Chris Rock -
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.
-- Christiane Northrup -
If a physician presumes to take into consideration in his work whether life has value or not, the consequences are boundless and the physician becomes the most dangerous man in the state.
-- Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland -
The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
-- Christopher Lasch -
Abortion is an atrocity. Those who practice or praise it are either damn idiots, misguided fools, or treacherous devils.
-- Christopher Titus -
What is especially irritating about the whole abortion debate is the way the subject has been used as a political football by those on both the right and the left of the political aisle.
-- Chuck Baldwin -
Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from the beginning of Western Civilization; an insult to the principles of our Declaration of Independence; a bane of our national spirit; and a stench in the nostrils of Almighty God.
-- Chuck Baldwin -
I never go anywhere and encourage people to get married to someone of the same gender or to have abortions - the issue never comes up.
-- Cindy Sheehan -
The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.
-- Cynthia Nixon -
Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don't want to alienate half your audience by sending one message or the other.
-- Cynthia Nixon -
Abortion is a right I feel must not go away, and I feel like people aren't mobilizing so much because it's so complicated and it's difficult to understand.
-- Cynthia Nixon -
I think abortion should be mandatory for about 30 years,
-- Dan Savage -
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 -
Although abortion has been legal nationwide for more than a quarter century, access remains difficult for many women.
-- David Grimes -
You live in a society that is shaped in every possible way by the Bible. The language you use, the laws you obey (and disobey), the founding principles of your nation, the disputes about abortion, homosexuality, adultery - these and so much else in your world are rooted in the Bible. You don't have to read it for its truth value. You should read it to understand how your world got the way it is, the way you would read the constitution or Shakespeare.
-- David Plotz -
The counselor at our clinic would cry with the girls at the drop of a hat. She would find their weakness and work on it. The women were never given any alternatives. They were told how much trouble it is to have a baby.
-- Debbie Harry -
First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.
-- Dennis Kucinich -
And by the way, my belief is that if men were the ones getting pregnant, abortions would be easier to get than food poisoning in Moscow.
-- Dennis Miller -
Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party.
-- Diane Abbott -
You don't have the right to be left alone with that abortion decision. The child is present...you are not alone.
-- Douglas Wilson -
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
-- Edmund Burke -
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 -
Anybody who's against birth control and abortion has to be a criminal idiot.
-- Eleanor Clark -
We have got to have more providers to replace those who are leaving ...
-- Eleanor Smeal -
The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable term 'female physician' should be exclusively applied to those women who carried on this shocking trade seemed to me a horror. It was an utter degradation of what might and should become a noble position for women.
-- Elizabeth Blackwell -
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.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
Dr. Oaks made the remark that, according to the best estimate he could make, there were four hundred murders annually produced by abortion in that county alone....There must be a remedy for such a crying evil as this.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
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 -
I was thrown into the Parliament right away. From 1976 to 1978 I was concerned with the abortion issue, later on with that of divorce.
-- Emma Bonino -
It's all about the fungibility and money. If Planned Parenthood accesses hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money and they use that for other purposes, then they can use other dollars to fund abortion.
-- Eric Cantor -
Because I believe that abortion is murder, I also believe that force is justified in an attempt to stop it.
-- Eric Rudolph -
Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.
-- Erica Jong -
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 -
So much for the fruits of love. Love? What's love? Sex, ah, that's another thing. Love has babies: sex has abortions.
-- Fay Weldon -
We've consistently seen, since the late 1990s, that more than half of women believe that abortion should be severely restricted or abolished altogether.
-- Faye Wattleton -
When women talk about "privacy" they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about "a room of one'sown" refer to psychological space, rarely to physical solitude. For most women being alone is tantamount to being deserted.
-- Florence King -
So the effect of this Republican provision to allow doctors to be gagged from even discussing abortion with their patients is outrageous.
-- Frank Lautenberg -
We who oppose abortion do not oppose those who have had abortions; rather, we embrace them with forgiveness and peace.
-- Frank Pavone -
If we took a moment of silence for each person lost to abortion, we would be silent for over 100 years.
-- Frank Pavone -
America will not reject abortion until America sees abortion.
-- Frank Pavone
