Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

This no longer puts the abortion issue in the abstract with the Supreme Court. This is as live a controversy as you can get.

Paul Broun

As a physician, I know that human life begins with fertilization, and I remain committed to ending abortion in all stages of pregnancy. I will continue to fight this atrocity on behalf of the unborn, and I hope my colleagues will support me in doing so.

Today, more than ever, we cannot take our right to reproductive freedom for granted. Anti-choice forces are moving full steam ahead to not only take away a woman's right to choose an abortion but to limit access to birth control and other important reproductive health care.

Well, he was responding to a suggestion that, an argument from liberals that the crime rate had gone down while the abortion rate had gone up. It was a defense of abortion rights. But, you know, the way that Bill Bennett tried to make this counter-argument was just not something anybody smart ought to say. By the same token, if you killed all the human beings, we wouldn't have any crime either. It just doesn't make any sense.

The ordinance violates her constitutional rights because it prohibits her from engaging in peaceful free speech as she has done for over 15 years on public property outside abortion clinics.

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.

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.

Judie Brown

We are totally opposed to abortion under any circumstances. We are also opposed to abortifacient drugs and chemicals like the pill and the IUD, and we are also opposed to all forms of birth control with the exception of natural family planning (the rhythm method)

The best piece of evidence that's been published was actually quite a large, 2004 Oxford study that is a re-analysis from 53 studies, including 83,000 women from 16 countries, ... And they concluded abortion did not increase a woman's risk.

John Faso

It's pretty clear that Eliot Spitzer's position is that abortion is fine anytime, anyplace and for anybody.

Jim Bakker

As I see with Lori's testimony, you say what good could come out of all these abortions and all what she's been through? But she has been a part of a new Bible for women, a mentoring Bible.

Jesse Helms

That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.

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.

Gary Bauer

The abortion industry can try to improve its messaging all it wants. But unless abortion advocates change their devotion to abortion-on-demand, the only message Americans will receive is that the abortion industry is only really interested in improving its bottom line at the expense of the most defenseless among us.

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.

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.

George W. Bush

I do not like abortions. I will do everything in my power to restrict abortion.

George Carlin

With humans it's abortion, but with chickens it's an omelet.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.

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.

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.

South Dakota has made abortion a criminal act.

Norma McCorvey

Once you know the realities of abortion and what goes along with it, it stays with you. I've seen the clinic's freezer, full of fetuses." ()

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

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.

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.