Jimmy Carter Quotes

I believe that we should do anything we can to minimize abortion and not to encourage it.

Jimmy Carter

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• I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Believe
  • Hand
  • Woman

• The abortion industry can try to improve its 'messaging' all it wants. But unless abortion advocates change their devotion to abortion-on-demand, the only message Americans will receive is that the abortion industry is only really interested in improving its bottom line at the expense of the most defenseless among us.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Change
  • Try
  • Abortion

• I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no way that having an abortion, ever, is an easy decision, and it more often errs on the side of absolutely wrenching, not to mention physically debilitating.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Life
  • Decision
  • Abortion

• If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • Men
  • Abortion
  • Pregnant

• 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
  • Human
  • Abortion
  • Democrats

• 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
  • Time
  • Women
  • Abortion

• Abortion is the taking of a life.

  

  Mary Calderone
  • Life
  • Abortion

• 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
  • Mother
  • Running
  • Deep

• [I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Crime
  • Clear
  • Abortion

• 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
  • War
  • Church
  • Military

• Arlen Specter is the man who voted in favor of Bill Clinton during impeachment, voted against Robert Bork for the Supreme Court, voted against school choice for the District of Columbia, endorses an absolutist interpretation of abortion rights. He is bright and he is tough and he belongs elsewhere.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Men
  • School
  • Choices

• Kid A is about an abortion. An abortion of the soul. *Begins to cry, holds up air quotes* Thom Yorke.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Kids
  • Soul
  • Air

• With modern technology and science, you can't find one instance in which an abortion would be needed to save a woman's life. There is no such exception as life of the mother, and as far as health of the mother, same thing.

  

  Joe Walsh The Eagles
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Abortion

• We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Children
  • War
  • Mother

• If abortion isn't wrong, then nothing is wrong.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Wrong
  • Abortion

• Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Choose
  • Abortion
  • Surprising

• I have always believed that the decision to have an abortion generally should be between a woman, her doctor, her conscience, and her God.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • God
  • Decision
  • Woman

• We are not America. We are Afghanistan.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • America
  • Afghanistan

• One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.

  

  Ted Lange
  • Jump
  • Restraint
  • Cliff

• Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Believe
  • Want
  • Fear

• Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords with Scripture; they do not search for facts as such, but for facts that will bear out their doctrine. It is easy to see that this mental habit blunts not only the perception of truth, but the sense of truthfulness, and that the man whose faith drives him into fallacies treads close upon the precipice of falsehood.

  

  George Eliot
  • Evidence
  • Scripture
  • Falsehood

• I believe that we should do anything we can to minimize abortion and not to encourage it.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Abortion