Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

George H. W. Bush

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.

Jay Sekulow

If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privacy, which ends up becoming ultimately the right to abortion.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

Mitt Romney

Supreme Court had said feds should stay out of abortion.

Mitt Romney

There’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with that would become part of my agenda.

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.

Patricia Schroeder

I was and am, like many women, both pro-life and pro-choice.

Mary Calderone

Abortion is the taking of a life.

Frank Pavone

We who oppose abortion do not oppose those who have had abortions; rather, we embrace them with forgiveness and peace.

Germaine Greer

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 law should make abortion illegal in all cases. Abortion never is right.

Napoleon Bonaparte

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

Mahatma Gandhi

The whole world is in the throes of a new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion.

John Irving

What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too.

John Irving

Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no choice, either

John Irving

Here is the trap you are in.... And it's not my trap—I haven't trapped you. Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you—because you know how to perform them—have no choice, either. What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too. If abortion was legal, a woman would have a choice—and so would you. You could feel free not to do it because someone else would. But the way it is, you're trapped. Women are trapped. Women are victims, and so are you.

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.

Norma McCorvey

There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.