Abortion Quotes

I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.

I am convinced that this approach, a mainstream Democratic approach, commands the strong support of the American people, and presents a sharp and compassionate contrast to the Republican abortion position which offers no real hope or commitment to mother or child.

We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent unintended pregnancy. We believe that a woman considering an abortion should not be forced to have an ultrasound against her will.

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

Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents.

The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug.

For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts.

Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.

We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.

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.

To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license.

I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule.

Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don't want to alienate half your audience by sending one message or the other.

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.

If our country is to reach a workable solution to the abortion issue, the Democratic party must be open to and tolerant of opposing views.

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

Life is sacred to me on all levels. Abortion does not compute with my philosophy.

I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.

A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust.

A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe.

However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.

ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else.

The national Democratic Party has embraced abortion on demand. I believe this position is wrong in principle and out of the mainstream of our party's historic commitment to protecting the powerless.

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.

Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.

I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.

The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb.

I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances.

I don't believe that Jesus would approve abortion except in the case of incest, rape or the mother's life in danger. But I had to enforce the Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade so I tried to do everything I could to minimize the need for abortions.

This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life.