Abortion Quotes

The gag rule is, is that if any program receiving United States funding for Family Planning cannot mention, cannot speak the word "abortion" in the Third World.

I'm opposed to abortion because I happen to believe that life deserves the protection of society.

Pro-choice supporters are often heard using the cool language of the courts and the vocabulary of rights. Americans who are deeply ambivalent about abortion often miss the sound of caring.

Did you know you can have an Irish abortion, but there is a 12 month waiting list?

There's a second life involved. No matter what your position is on abortion or the death penalty, you shouldn't put a pregnant woman to death.

The crowning insult [of abortion] is that this ordeal is represented to her as some kind of a privilege.Her sad and onerous duty is garbed in the rhetoric of a civil right.

The power of the state stops at our skins. They can't restrict contraception [or] abortion. They can't take our kidneys. Bodily integrity is a principle.

I am a little discouraged and irritated at the welfare recipient families growing in size all the time. Those of us who work and pay taxes all the time shouldn't have to pay for these kids.

My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.

Abortion is 'the great modern sin.

Human life commences at the time of conception.

When you represent the state of Washington, we have a tradition of deciding social issues by vote. Washington State passed abortion rights before Roe v. Wade and affirmed it at the ballot box later.

Outlaw all abortions; err on the side of life.

Now, it is clear to the nation that there is an access-to-abortion crisis. We're going to win this case, and as a movement, we're going to go forward to make sure that there is equity in access.

I believe most Americans are pro-choice and anti-abortion.

On abortion: We are talking about ambiguous issues of a complicated kind where you have to balance conflicting interests and concerns.

I think it's the pro-abortion people who are doing this to collect on their insurance, so they can go out and build bigger and better killing centers.

What shall we do about the Abortion Bill?" A: "Pay it!

Selfishness and fear are at the root of (pro-abortion) legislation...We in the Church have a great struggle to defend life...life is a gift not a threat.

There are many examples of this mistaken idea of freedom, such as the elimination of human life by legalized or generally accepted abortion.

The bible says that all people, not just believers, possess part of the image of God; that is why murder and abortion are wrong.

I would like to ask each of you: Would you be in favor of some kind of education on birth control and if so, how would you use that as a possible solution to the ever present question of abortion.

Scientifically, there's no debate over whether the fetus is alive and human.

I will veto any spending bill that contains funding for Planned Parenthood, facilities that perform abortion and all government family planning schemes.

When the lives of the unborn are snuffed out, they often feel pain, pain that is long and agonizing.

The immediate problem is, where will the doctors come from?

You can't really protect women or men from their choices, so let them have their own lives and trust the process.

With every kind of birth control available in the world, abortion is not something to be proud of. If you need an abortion, you've failed.

I think it’s important that (Roe v. Wade) remain legal for medical reasons and other reasons.

Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.

No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen...You shouldn't have a baby if there's no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.

The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.

I do not believe abortion should be legal.

I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances.

I notice that everbody who is Pro-Abortion already has been born.

Both childbirth and abortion are medical procedures but neither is an illness, and sometimes they're both treated as such.

Interestingly, in Cuba abortion is treated as lightly as getting a mole removed.

If the Declaration of Independence states our creed, there can be no right to abortion, since it means denying the most fundamental right of all to the unborn child, the right to life.

Andrew Saul is John Hall in a business suit. He's wrong on the war, on national security, immigration, abortion. He's Sue Kelly all over again.

I believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the will of the former.

Abortion is a blessing.

I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule.

The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.

The point is that what we want, Democrats, and what we've always wanted, is to make abortion safe, legal, and rare.

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

Last night I didn't realize I said "abortion" in my stand up comedy act instead of "circumcision." No wonder I got blank stares at "rabbi got faint at sight of blood."

Paul Revere was warning the British about gun control, and George Washington apparently was crossing the Delaware to bomb an abortion clinic.

Republicans are obsessed with abortion...if they really wanted to protect the weakest, most helpless people, wouldn't they protect the Democrats?

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.

Just proportionately, statistically, one in three women are going to have an abortion. They're not all going to feel guilty.