Abortion Quotes
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In nature, creatures never ended the lives of others except to survive. To women, abortion was self-defense and preservation of the species. Abortion was not a fancy borne out of the female mind. Abortion was instinct beyond ideas. Abortion was fear (the cat that devours its litter when a predator nears).
Ana Castillo -
The sensations of dismemberment flow through the forceps like an electric current.
Warren Hern
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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 -
Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.
E. A. Bucchianeri -
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 -
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 -
I do not believe a person can take two issues from Scripture, those being abortion and gay marriage, and adhere to them as sins, then neglect much of the rest and call himself a fundamentalist or even a conservative. The person who believes the sum of his morality involves gay marriage and abortion alone, and neglects health care and world trade and the environment and loving his neighbor and feeding the poor is, by definition, a theological liberal, because he takes what he wants from Scripture and ignores the rest.
Donald Miller -
I understand perfectly well why the Catholic Church preaches against abortion. But it shouldn't be the purpose of the Catholic Church to prevent non-Catholics from having abortions if they feel that abortions are morally acceptable. They can certainly only argue for what they believe to be right in the court of public opinion and try to persuade people.
Andrew Solomon
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I think everyone's against abortion.
Rupert Murdoch -
Abortion restrictions 'reduce pregnant women to no more than fetal containers.'
Dawn Johnsen -
Any woman should have the right to a safe and legal abortion.
Betty Ford -
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 -
I was going to get an abortion the other day. I totally wanted an abortion. And it turns out I was just thirsty.
Sarah Silverman -
A father's interest in having a child--perhaps his only child--may be unmatched by any other interest in his life. It is truly surprising that the state must assign a greater value to a mother's decision to cut off a potential human life by abortion than to a father's decision to let it mature into a live child.
William Rehnquist
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[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Abortion is an attack on the family and the humanity that unites us all.
Alveda King -
One effect of Roe was to mobilize a permanent constituency for criminalizing abortion - a constituency that has driven much of the southern realignment toward conservatism.
Benjamin Wittes -
Abortion doesn't belong in the political arena. It's a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
Bella Abzug -
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 -
If the abortion issue is important to me, this is how you tackle that issue.
Donald Miller
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In addition, the bill passed by the House requires a person performing an abortion on a minor from a different state to notify one parent in the home state.
Virgil Goode -
In medical practice, there are few surgical procedures given so little attention and so underrated in its potential hazard as abortion.
Warren Hern -
Activist Supreme Courts are not new. The Dred Scott decision in 1856, imposing slavery in free territories; the Plessy decision in 1896, imposing segregation on a private railroad company; the Korematsu decision in 1944, upholding Franklin Roosevelt’s internment of American citizens, mostly Japanese Americans; and the Roe decision in 1973, imposing abortion on the entire nation; are examples of the consequences of activist Courts and justices.
Mark Levin -
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