Abortion Against Quotes

#1. How it is that within 60 days of a general election issue, groups can no longer tell voters that a Member of Congress votes pro-abortion, against guns, against the environment or whatever else is beyond me.

Paul Weyrich

#2. If you are against abortions, don't have one.

Scott Andrews

#3. 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.

Nancy Keenan

#4. I think abortion is something that, as a personal matter, I would advise somebody against.

Rudy Giuliani

#5. No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen ... You shouldn't have a baby if there's no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.

John Irving

#6. I think it's really important to enlarge the issue behind abortion. I have been serving for over two decades and I have seen year in and year out largely the Republicans voting against women's contraception, family planning.

Barack Obama

#7. I am personally against abortion on demand, but I believe it is very clear that there must be legislation brought in that will deal with what is becoming simply a mish-mash of approaches

Paul Martin

#8. You've got these twenty million people who call themselves the Evangelical Christians who will put their hand up and say, I believe in the devil, I'm against abortion and gay rights, and we have to blow up the world. It's frightening.

Jeanette Winterson

#9. Jesus didn't fight against what was wrong. But he fought for what was right.

Ricky Maye

#10. We've seen Second Amendment enthusiasts take action against abortion doctors. There's an attempt to paint us as villains in the same way.

Jane Mayer

#11. Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words 'abortion' or 'tax hikes' pass their lips.

Ann Coulter

#12. The belief that women should control our own bodies may be a majority belief, but the minority that believes otherwise is against not only safe and legal abortions but contraception and even sex education.

Gloria Steinem

#13. You are called to stand up for life! To respect and defend the mystery of life always and everywhere, including the lives of unborn babies, giving real help and encouragement to mothers in difficult situations. You are called to work and pray against abortion.

Pope John Paul II

#14. The most brutal form of domestic violence is the violence against unborn children, and this particular bill would prohibit abortions after the fetus feels pain, which is 20 weeks and older.

Joseph Fischer

#15. Abortion is without a doubt one of the greatest moral evils within modernity. As the "Advocate of Christian Memory," a pope must take up the mantle of defending the culture of life - a defense the Early Church held against the pagans of Rome.

Pope Francis

#16. The greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion, which is war against the child. The mother doesn't learn to love, but kills to solve her own problems. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.

Mother Teresa

#17. In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.

Leon Kass

#18. I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion ... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.

Patricia Richardson

#19. I'm against the partial-birth abortion, but you've got to have an exception for the life of the mother and the health of the mother under the strictest test of bodily injury to the mother.

John F. Kerry

#20. I'm very contra my constituency in terms of abortion because I'm positively against it. I don't have the right to any other view. My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.

Jack Nicholson

#21. 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.

Jesse Helms

#22. May our zeal against abortion be matched by our zeal for adoption.

Scotty Smith

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

John Bolton

#24. I am against abortion; I think that life is sacred and we should take a position of being against abortion. I think it is wrong to take human life. I think that human life starts at conception.

Billy Graham

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

Robin Morgan

#26. Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#27. Having the right to choose determines whether women will find an equal place at life's table, whether children will be truly valued, and whether everyone's personal liberties, privacy, and bodily integrity will be safeguarded against the ideology of the right.

Gloria Feldt

#28. I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.

Nancy Reagan

#29. America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men.

Mother Teresa

#30. Just because something happens to be legal does not make it moral, ethical or right. Abortion is perhaps one of the most dramatic examples of a situation where something is legal, but is very much a sin against God.

Al Barry

#31. I can't imagine any reasonably responsible person arguing against the abortion of mongols ... If we could tell what foetuses are going to be affected with cancer in their 40s and 50s, I would be for aborting them now.

Cecil Jacobson

#32. The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

Adam McKay

#33. Arlen Specter is the man who voted in favor of Bill Clinton during impeachment, voted against Robert Bork for the Supreme Court, voted against school choice for the District of Columbia, endorses an absolutist interpretation of abortion rights. He is bright and he is tough and he belongs elsewhere.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#34. Much as we do not permit convicted pedophiles to teach kindergarten or convicted hijackers to board airplanes, common sense dictates that individuals who have been imprisoned for plotting violence against abortion clinics should never again be permitted anywhere near such facilities.

Jacob M. Appel

#35. 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

#36. I'm against abortion.

Charles Evers

#37. I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can possibly be the same people who are for abortion? They are the same people who are for animal rights, but they are not for the rights of the unborn.

Jim Gibbons

#38. Abortion continues to be a scourge against this country.

Franklin Graham

#39. Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman's right to an abortion, which I always thought was the core of 'Rosemary's Baby,' or the backlash against feminism which I always thought was the core to 'Stepford Wives.'

Chuck Palahniuk

#40. The Bible identifies 15 crimes against the family worthy of the death penalty. ABORTION is treason against the family and deserves the DEATH PENALTY. ADULTERY is treason to the family; adulterers should be put to DEATH. HOMOSEXUALITY is treason to the family, and it too, is worthy of DEATH.

R.J. Rushdoony

#41. Anybody who's against birth control and abortion has to be a criminal idiot.

Eleanor Clark

#42. Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family.

Peter Kreeft

#43. The legal toleration of abortion or of euthanasia can in no way claim to be based on respect for the conscience of others, precisely because society has the right and the duty to protect itself against the abuses which can occur in the name of conscience and under the pretext of freedom.

Pope John Paul II

#44. In the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights. To force women to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will is to deprive them of the right to make basic decisions about their lives and well-being, and to give that power to the state.

Katha Pollitt