Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Reince Priebus

Most Americans agree that federal money, their tax money shouldn't be used to help pay for abortions.

Pope Benedict XVI

The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery.

Pope John Paul II

The [abortion] excommunication affects all those who commit this crime with knowledge of the penalty attached, and thus includes those accomplices without which the crime would not have been committed.

Pope Francis

Defend the unborn against abortion even if they persecute you, calumniate you, set traps for you, take you to court or kill you.

Pope Francis

Life once conceived, must be protected with the utmost care; abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes.

Peter Singer

Of course, infanticide needs to be strictly legally controlled and rare - but it should not be ruled out, any more than abortion.

Mother Teresa

If abortion isn't wrong, then nothing is wrong.

Mother Teresa

Abortion is profoundly anti-women.

Mother Teresa

The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign.

Roseanne Barr

Abortion is a woman's right.

Robin Morgan

The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion

Robert Duvall

I would like to ask each of you: Would you be in favor of some kind of education on birth control and if so, how would you use that as a possible solution to the ever present question of abortion.

Rudy Giuliani

I am open and will continue to be open to ways to limit abortion. What I am not open to is to removing the right.

Ruth Gordon

In the old days, ptomaine poisoning was a cover-all. If you missed a show and you were young, it meant you were having an abortion. If you were old, it meant you were having a face lift.

Ronald Reagan

I notice that everbody who is Pro-Abortion already has been born.

Valerie Solanas

The male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage

Stephen Colbert

Senator John Kyle claiming that over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion. Stephen Colbert: Over 90 percent, that is unbelievable...in that it is not true. Only 3 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion. Kyle just rounded it up to the nearest 90.

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.