Abortion Quotes
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The fact is that I'm also friendly with Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative Republicans in the United States Senate, who, during his campaign, once said that it might be appropriate to apply the death penalty to those who carried out abortions.
Barack Obama -
Someone who can't be trusted to take Planned Parenthood's position on abortion.
J. M. Roberts
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Lenscrafters is upset with Tea Partier Michele Bachmann because she called Planned Parenthood 'the Lenscrafters of abortion.' Lenscrafters released a statement today calling her 'the Costco of crazy.'
Conan O'Brien -
I was interested in the question of the power of religious organizations to effect public policy in a negative way. When I was in college, and I found out at that time the Catholic Church was in such control of everything in communities, including in progressive places like New York - that a roommate of mine was not able to obtain an abortion with his girlfriend, even in places like New York. What I learned at that moment was the extraordinary clout that religious organizations can have to impose their theological views on others. And I found it exasperating and dangerous.
Barry W. Lynn -
I don't believe that Jesus would approve abortion except in the case of incest, rape or the mother's life in danger. But I had to enforce the Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade so I tried to do everything I could to minimize the need for abortions.
Jimmy Carter -
Roe v. Wade very clearly sets out that there can be regulations on abortion so long as the life and the health of the mother are taken into account.
Hillary Clinton -
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 -
Another myth we fed to the public through the media was that legalizing abortion would only mean that the abortions taking place it legally would then be done legally. In fact, of course, abortion is now being used as a primary method of birth control in the U.S. and the annual number of abortions has increased by 1,500 percent since legalization.
Bernard Nathanson
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Why don't church leaders forbid Catholics from joining the military with the same fervor they tell Catholics to stay away from abortion clinics?
William Blum -
Most physicians regard abortion as a stigmatized operation done by people who are otherwise incompetent and can't do anything else.
Warren Hern -
… life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia …
Sebastian Horsley -
Women - and those who love them - need to know the truth about abortion facilities.
Abby Johnson -
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 -
America has about three times as many abortions as they have in Norway, or Sweden, or Nordic countries, and they don't have any laws at all about abortion, but they care for women and infant children, which is a major cause for abortion.
Jimmy Carter
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Even if abortion were made easy or painless for everyone, it wouldn't change the bottom-line problem that abortion kills children.
Randy Alcorn -
I remember laughing when we made those slogans up [about abortion]. . . . We were looking for some sexy, catchy slogans to capture public opinion. They were very cynical slogans then, just as all of these slogans today are very, very cynical.
Bernard Nathanson -
In the old days, ptomaine poisoning was a cover-all. If you missed a show and you were young, it meant you were having an abortion. If you were old, it meant you were having a face lift.
Ruth Gordon -
We are fighting abortion through adoption.
Mother Teresa -
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
Cynthia Nixon -
I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
Hippocrates
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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 -
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.
Robin LaFevers -
One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice.
William P. Leahy -
The Republicans all want to see women's rights eroded and for abortion to become illegal again.
Hillary Clinton