Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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 F. Kerry

Even as a supporter of Roe v. Wade, I am compelled to acknowledge that the language both sides use on this subject can be unfortunately misleading and unconstructive.... Everyone is worse off for it

Linda Ellerbee

I am not for abortion; nobody is for abortion. I am for your right to make your own hard choices in this world.

Lewis Black

If you want to get an audience quiet, just say "abortion" and everybody shuts up and the tension in the room is spectacular.

Mahatma Gandhi

[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.

Fred Upton

Together, we will protect the sanctity of life, ensuring early next Congress that no federal funds are used for abortion.

Fred Thompson

Life begins at conception, but allow early abortions.

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)

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.

Norma McCorvey

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

Norma McCorvey

Instead of helping women in Roe v. Wade, I brought destruction to me & millions of women.

Rick Santorum

Why? Because free prenatal testing ends up in more abortions and, therefore, less care that has to be done, because we cull the ranks of the disabled in our society.