Famous Quotes & Sayings

A lot of Republicans think there's enough controversy on the table anyway, without having to add the abortion issue.

Jeffrey Toobin

This is potentially an earthquake, because there is no doubt that this law conflicts with Roe v. Wade. It is completely contradictory to what the current law on abortion is.

This is a case in which substantial damage could be done to abortion rights without anyone seriously being able to claim that Roe v. Wade is in danger.

They may say some things that bear on abortions generally, either cutting back severely on a woman's right to have an abortion in all kinds of circumstances or perhaps -- and this is less likely -- abolishing the right to have an abortion completely.

This is the frontline abortion case in the country.

This is the front-line abortion case in the country.

Arlen Specter

As the record shows, I have supported every one of President Bush's nominees in the Judiciary Committee and on the Senate floor. I have never and would never apply any litmus test on the abortion issue and, as the record shows, I have voted to confirm Chief Justice (William) Rehnquist, Justice (Sandra Day) O'Connor, and Justice (Anthony) Kennedy and led the fight to confirm Justice (Clarence) Thomas.

The women of South Dakota will still be able to access safe and legal abortion as this case works its way through the court system.

Robert Stewart

The video is having a positive impact. A lot of kids are talking about it. It's awesome because (Cannon) spit it in a way that everybody can relate to and embrace, whether they believe abortion is wrong or not.

It would be very difficult, and I said this to you privately and I said it publicly, for me to vote to confirm someone whom I knew would overturn Roe v. Wade, because I remember - and many of the young women here don't - what it was like when abortion was illegal in America,

It would be a real stretch to claim this purely factual statement about how our court system operates is indicative of how Judge Roberts would address the abortion issue, or any other issue.

Women in the western side of the state don't think about abortion until they need to, and then they're completely shocked that there's no way to receive that care unless they go to Sioux Falls.

James Carville

Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.

Jackie Speier

Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning services. Planned parenthood has a right to perform abortions.

Christopher Hitchens

It is a pity that...the majority of feminists and their allies have stuck to the dead ground of "Me Decade" possessive individualism, an ideology that has more in common than it admits with the prehistoric right, which it claims to oppose but has in fact encouraged.

A partial-birth abortion is a surgical procedure during which the unborn fetus is partially delivered, an intrauterine cranial decompression is performed ... and then the dead fetus is delivered.

The Mexican government needs to ensure that rape victims do not have to endure dangerous back-alley abortions or imposed pregnancies. A public official who fails to inform rape victims of how they can obtain a voluntary legal abortion is contributing to a human rights violation and should be disciplined.

In cases where people are requesting asylum based on politics or a particular social group, he's very strict. Is someone fleeing forced abortion more deserving of protection than someone fleeing political persecution?

In all statistical data, Alabama is the most conservative state in the Southeast. If abortion can be stopped, it can be stopped in Alabama.

James Payn

It's yet to be determined how Roberts will deal with important decisions. I don't know his position on issues like stem-cell research, abortion or affirmative action. These are things that someone may attempt to bring to the Supreme Court.

Rather than dull our consciences to the unmitigated violence of abortion, the passage of time has only enabled us to see and, frankly, better understand the innate cruelty of abortion and its horrific legacy - victims - while making us more determined than ever to protect the weakest and the most vulnerable.

Ginger Baker

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.

Chrissy Teigen

We also need to make sure women can be in charge of their reproductive health. We can't defund places like Planned Parenthood, where women can go for all kinds of healthcare services. While reproductive rights span much further than the pro-life/pro-choice debate, [Donald] Trump has actually said he wants to "punish" women for having abortions. And [Mike] Pence is quite possibly the most anti-choice vice presidential candidate in history.

Hillary Clinton

[The Republicans] all want to see women's rights eroded and for abortion to become illegal again.

Eric Cantor

It's all about the fungibility and money. If Planned Parenthood accesses hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money and they use that for other purposes, then they can use other dollars to fund abortion.

Wendy Wright

If you subsidize an activity you get more of it. It's encouraging the behavior that leads to more clients for abortion clinics.

If there was one abortion bill we thought the governor was going to sign, it was this. The parental-consent laws are already on the books. We were just trying to make them more meaningful. This is a pretty common sense, pretty moderate, common-ground type of bill we thought we could get into law.

Italo Calvino

In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman.

I'm not a girl, I'm a guy you know? But at the same time, I tell ya how you can solve this abortion issue right now. Ready? Those unwanted babies that single moms leave in alleys and in dumpsters? Leave about 12 of those on the steps of The Supreme Court. This is over. Like that. 'You guys said we had to have them? Then you guys...F***ING RAISE 'EM. Raise 'em then, you f***ing raise 'em. YOU raise 'em. You said I had to have it? Then it's yours. F**k. It's yours..Take it.'

Glenn Reynolds

I'm pretty sure that this development will actually be bad for the Republicans. When the topic is defense, the Democrats lose. When it's sex, the Republicans lose. And the abortion debate will, I think, turn into a sex debate before it's over.

If you believe abortion is a lethal force, you should oppose the force and do what you have to do to stop it. May God help you to protect the unborn as you would want to be protected.

Potter Stewart

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.

Mike Huckabee

Outlaw all abortions; err on the side of life.