Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

N. T. Wright

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

Peggy Noonan

Abortion is either OK or it's not.

Margaret Sanger

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

If there was one abortion bill we thought the governor was going to sign, it was this. The parental-consent laws are already on the books. We were just trying to make them more meaningful. This is a pretty common sense, pretty moderate, common-ground type of bill we thought we could get into law.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Rick Perry

Under Obama, our federal tax dollars can now be used to fund abortion all over the world. With the stroke of a pen, abortion essentially became a U.S. foreign export.

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.

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.

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.

William J. Clinton

Abortion should not only be safe and legal, it should be rare.

Sarah Silverman

I was going to get an abortion the other day. I totally wanted an abortion. And it turns out I was just thirsty.

Ronald Reagan

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

Saint Basil

A woman who deliberately destroys a fetus is answerable for murder. And any fine distinction as to its being completely formed or unformed is not admissible amongst us.

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.

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

Tertullian

To forbid birth is only quicker murder.

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.

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.

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.