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.

John Piper

How do you get from, "We do not know whether this is protectable human life," to "Therefore, we will not protect it?" Wouldn't the logic just as likely (some would say far more likely) be, "Since we do not know whether this is protectable human life, therefore we will protect it?" Why does the judicial uncertainty about the humanity of the unborn lead to unbridled license to destroy it?

Mark Steyn

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.

Sebastian Horsley

[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]

Margaret Sanger

It is apparent that nothing short of contraceptives can put an end to the horrors of abortion and infanticide.

Eric Bolling

Incentivizing more clinics to incentivize the young women, to may or may not want to have an abortion to say, you know what, if we talk her into an abortion, we'll be able to sell it for 75 bucks up to 300 bucks.

Jon Kyl

If you want an abortion, you go to Planned Parenthood, and that's well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.

Jon Kyl

That claim was not intended to be a factual statement.

N. T. Wright

You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.

All three of these are factors that put children at risk for crime when they grow up. Unwanted children are at risk for crime, legalized abortion reduced the number of unwanted children. Therefore, legalized abortion should have reduced crime.

Peggy Noonan

Abortion is either OK or it's not.

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.

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.

William Rehnquist

It is truly surprising that the state must assign a greater value to a mother's decision to cut off a potential human life by abortion than to a father's decision to let it mature into a live child.

For 20 years or so there had been a movement to chip away at Roe v Wade by adding barriers to abortion access. But now it seems that conservatives are emboldened by the new make-up of the supreme court and are trying a new approach by directly challenging Roe.

This is the frontline abortion case in the country.

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

Ronald Reagan

With regard to the freedom of the individual for choice with regard to abortion, there's one individual who's not being considered at all. That's the one who is being aborted. And I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

Ron Paul

So the time line of when we consider a fetus 'human' is arbitrary after conception.

Ron Paul

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

Shirley Chisholm

To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.

Laura Schlessinger

There is little reason left for society to respect women as it once did. Women get knocked up. They don't marry. They have abortions. They go to bars. They get knocked up again.

Stephen King

" Science is beginning to encroach on every level of our volition". And to me, that is a frightening social concept. It doesn't have anything to do with the right to have an abortion verses the right to life. It has to do with the ability of science to keep things alive and the ability of science to really control our lives.

Natalie Portman

[Donald] Trump wants to punish women for getting abortions and defund Planned Parenthood.

Tammy Bruce

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.

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.