Abortion Quotes
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Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted, and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child, and be loved by the child. From our children's home in Calcutta alone, we have saved over 3,000 children from abortions. These children have brought such love and joy to their adopting parents, and have grown up so full of love and joy!
Mother Teresa
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People say Cream gave birth to heavy metal. If that's so, we should have had an abortion.
Ginger Baker
Cream
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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
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Historically the opposition to abortion and birth control ... stemmed from the urgency of the need to decrease the mortality and morbidity rates and to increase the population ... in the matter of abortion the human rights of the mother with her family must take precedence over the survival of a few weeks' old foetus without sense or sensibility.
Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill
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The idea that the United States of American might shut down its government over abortion and funding to an organization that is 0.01% of the U.S. budget seems completely insane. Anyone looking at this debate around the world is thinking 'What is this country doing? They have three wars going on, they're trying to manage major problems and they're thinking of shutting down their government over abortion?'
Katty Kay
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Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly anti-women. Three quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers.
Mother Teresa
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Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.
Tony Abbott
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There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.
Norma McCorvey
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Both childbirth and abortion are medical procedures but neither is an illness, and sometimes they're both treated as such.
Achy Obejas
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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
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Interestingly, in Cuba abortion is treated as lightly as getting a mole removed.
Achy Obejas
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Zealous groups threaten to infringe civil liberties when they seek government support to impose their own religious views on nonadherents. This has taken many forms, including attempts to introduce organized prayer in public schools, to outlaw birth control and abortion, and to use public tax revenues to finance religious schools.
Norman Dorsen