Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carter Heyward

If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.

Camille Paglia

Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.

Caitlin Moran

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

Dennis Kucinich

First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Dennis Miller

Now let me get this straight. Bush is anti-abortion, but pro-death penalty. I guess it's all in the timing, huh?

Cecily von Ziegesar

I don't eat chicken abortions!

Alan Keyes

Black Americans make up 10 or 11% of the population, but they account now for something of 40 to 45% of all the abortions. This is a privileged position that I'm not sure anyone in their right mind would aspire to.

Charles Evers

I'm against abortion.

Bob McDonnell

Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.

Bob Marshall

Garrett Hardin. Parenthood: Right or Privilege? Science Magazine.

Jay Sekulow

With the new make-up of the high court, we are encouraged that the Justices will determine that the government does have a vital and compelling interest in preventing the spread of the practice of abortion into infanticide.

Lee Greenwood

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.

Robert Casey

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.

Robert Casey

I am fairly certain that my abortion position hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, where turnout is relatively low, liberal voters turn out in disproportionately large numbers and thus exercise a disproportionate influence on the outcome.

Robert Casey

The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb.

Susan B. Anthony

It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. . .drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.

Bill Hicks

What do you say we lighten things up and talk about abortion?...

Ayelet Waldman

Listen to the pregnant woman. Value her. She values the life growing inside her. Listen to the pregnant woman, and you cannot help but defend her right to abortion.

Edward Abbey

Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.

Eleanor Smeal

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.

Eleanor Smeal

We have got to have more providers to replace those who are leaving ...

Caitlin Moran

If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.

Pope Francis

Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what the Mafia does. It's a crime. It's an absolute evil.

Ann Coulter

In the druidical religion of liberalism, not separating your recyclables is a sin, but abortion is just a medical procedure.

Nancy Keenan

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.

Nancy Keenan

On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.

Richard Mourdock

I have to certainly stand for life. I know that there are some who disagree, and I respect their point of view. But I believe that life begins at conception. The only exception I have to have on abortion is in that case - of the life of the mother. I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize life is that gift from God.

Adrienne Rich

Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.

Vincent Nichols

In the eyes of the Catholic Church, abortion is a tragedy. Our principle objective must be to try and win greater sympathy for that perspective and for the value of human life from its beginnings.

Janet Parshall

Whether by pill or invasive surgery, abortion is never good for women.

I believe we should live in a society where abortion is rare but safe.

Alan Keyes

I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.

Barbara Bush

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