Abortion Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.

If our country is to reach a workable solution to the abortion issue, the Democratic party must be open to and tolerant of opposing views.

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.

A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe.

However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.

The national Democratic Party has embraced abortion on demand. I believe this position is wrong in principle and out of the mainstream of our party's historic commitment to protecting the powerless.

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.