Abortion Quotes

I don't think the objective of an abortion clinic is to try to talk women out of having the procedure. That obviously would not be positive for their bottom line.

The abortion cases produced an enormous amount of mail to my chambers, vastly more than to the other chambers, I am sure. I sometimes thought there wasn't a woman in the United States who didn't write me a letter on one side or the other of that issue.

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.

I was thrown into the Parliament right away. From 1976 to 1978 I was concerned with the abortion issue, later on with that of divorce.

The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.

The papers reveal that in several key abortion cases, justices were keenly interested in the perceived public reaction to their rulings - indicating that courts can be influenced by public sentiment.

I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don't think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.

The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.

Under Obama, our federal tax dollars can now be used to fund abortion all over the world. With the stroke of a pen, abortion essentially became a U.S. foreign export.

Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life.

Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privacy, which ends up becoming ultimately the right to abortion.

I do not believe abortion should be legal.

Even if you don't mind Romneycare, or the abortion flip-flop, or any of the rest, there's a more basic problem: He's not a natural campaigner, and on the stump he instinctively recoils from any personal connection with the voters.

I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.

For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts.

I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.

I am convinced that this approach, a mainstream Democratic approach, commands the strong support of the American people, and presents a sharp and compassionate contrast to the Republican abortion position which offers no real hope or commitment to mother or child.

We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent unintended pregnancy. We believe that a woman considering an abortion should not be forced to have an ultrasound against her will.

There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.

I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.

The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug.

Together, we will protect the sanctity of life, ensuring early next Congress that no federal funds are used for abortion.

Abortion is the ultimate violence.

We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.

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.

To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license.