Abortion Quotes

• 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.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Children
  • Care
  • Married

• 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
  • Sin
  • Abortion
  • Legal

• The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Death

• We applaud Congress for extending equitable abortion coverage to female Peace Corps volunteers.

  

  Cecile Richards
  • Female
  • Congress
  • Volunteer

• People say Cream gave birth to heavy metal. If that's so, we should have had an abortion.

  

  Ginger Baker Cream
  • Abortion
  • Metals

• The religious hospitals would jeopardize their patients' lives rather than perform a medically necessary abortion is not mere speculation, it is documented fact.

  

  Nancy Northup
  • Religious
  • Patient
  • Hospitals

• The impulse to make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free is an old one ... When we are badly frightened, we think we can make ourselves safer by sacrificing some of our liberties. We did it during the McCarthy era out of fear of communism. Less liberty is regularly proposed as a solution to crime, to pornography, to illegal immigration, to abortion, to all kinds of threats.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Sacrifice

• I generally favor permissive abortion laws.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Laws
  • Abortion
  • Permissive

• The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts--a child--as a competitor, an intrusion and an inconvenience.. .

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Men
  • Children
  • Heart

• The worst thing we can do is to assume that the Electoral College [voting] resulting in the election of Donald Trump represents a mandate. It does not. He did not get the majority of the popular vote; that went to Hillary Clinton. That means those votes represent the consciousness of the nation, which is that abortion should be legal, that contraception and family planning are health issues and prevention, that a woman's right to reproductive privacy is the law of the land and should remain such.

  

  Willie Parker
  • Mean
  • Planning
  • Election

• In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Marriage
  • Choice
  • Involved

• I have said often, and I am sure of it, that the greatest destroyer of peace in the world today is abortion. If a mother can kill her own child, what is there to stop you and me from killing each other? The only one who has the right to take life is the The One who has created it.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • World
  • Children
  • Mother

• We talk a lot about how abortion is a medical procedure, but actually if you look at what the other side is doing, they're trying to legislate a very narrow, pretty extreme ideological worldview on the American people.

  

  Nancy Northup
  • Trying
  • Medical
  • Worldview

• They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.

  

  Ginger Baker Cream
  • Should
  • Cases
  • Heavy

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

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Wrong
  • Abortion

• I hope we don't have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion. The parity of women's health. It's very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Thinking
  • Fighting
  • Winning

• Any country that accepts abortion is the poorest of the poor

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Poor
  • Abortion

• To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Planning
  • Program
  • Rhetoric

• At Planned Parenthood, we see the impact of abortion stigma firsthand, in the women who delay getting reproductive health care because they fear they’ll be labeled and judged. We see the effect of stigma on doctors, health center staffers, and others who help provide abortion services. And we see the impact in laws that regulate and restrict abortion in ways that would never happen with any other medical procedure.

  

  Cecile Richards
  • Care
  • Helping
  • Medical

• Abortion should not only be safe and legal, it should be rare.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Safe
  • Abortion
  • Legal

• I really didn't know there was two sides to the abortion issue.

  

  Norma McCorvey
  • Sides
  • Abortion
  • Issue

• If you represent all the people you should be able listen to someone who's pro-abortion are anti-abortion. Even though you might have a different view you should hear somebody who's pro-affirmative-action anti-affirmative action.

  

  David Duke
  • People
  • Different
  • Action

• I saw this huge billboard that said: 'Abortion Hurts' and then it had a drawing of a butterfly. Who is that for? Is there a lady who's going to see that and be like, 'Oh, I was going to get an abortion but now that I realize it hurts I guess I'll just give birth to a child! 'Cause I know that's painless and raising it should be a snap!'

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Child
  • Birth
  • Butterfly

• We respect the individual conscience of every American on the painful issue of abortion, but believe as a matter of law that this decision should be left to a woman, her conscience, her doctor and her God. But abortion should not only be be safe and legal, it should be rare.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • America
  • Law
  • Conscience

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