Abortion Law Quotes

#1. It is a noteworthy fact that not one of the women to whom I have spoken so far believes in abortion as a practice; but it is principle for which they are standing. They also believe that the complete abolition of the abortion law will shortly do away with abortions, as nothing else will.

Margaret Sanger

#2. The law, moreover enjoins us to bring up all our offspring, and forbids women to cause abortion of what is begotten, or to destroy it afterward; and if any woman appears to have so done, she will be a murderer of her child, by destroying a living creature, and diminishing humankind.

Josephus

#3. There is no more important issue than restoring the protection of the law to pre-natal infants.

Gordon J. Humphrey

#4. Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

Karl Kraus

#5. It's great to be young and a Yankee!

Waite Hoyt

#6. Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

#7. I think it's safe to say that the entire abortion industry is based on a lie ... . I am dedicated to spending the rest of my life undoing the law that bears my name,

Norma McCorvey

#8. One of the biggest problems this country has is that people think a law is a law only if they agree with it. And if they don't, it's all right to kick guys like Joe out of the service and bomb abortion clinics because there's a higher law at work.

Jennifer Crusie

#9. Laws which legitimize the direct killing of innocent human beings through abortion or euthanasia are in complete opposition to the inviolable right to life proper to every individual; they thus deny the equality of everyone before the law.

Pope John Paul II

#10. Children and unborn children should be protected by law and welcomed into life.

George W. Bush

#11. A person who has self-love and self-respect has everything.

Debasish Mridha

#12. On the law that requires women to wait twenty-four hours before they are permitted to have an abortion: I think it's a good law. The other day I wanted to go get an abortion. I really
wanted an abortion, but then I thought about it and it turned out I was just thirsty.

Sarah

#13. All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.

Bart Stupak

#14. We respect the individual conscience of every American on the painful issue of abortion, but believe as a matter of law that this decision should be left to a woman, her conscience, her doctor and her God. But abortion should not only be be safe and legal, it should be rare.

William J. Clinton

#15. Just because Congress passes a law and says it's all right to do a certain thing does not mean that it's all right to do it. Abortion is still just as wrong today as it was the first day of January, 1973.

Shelton Smith

#16. The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.

Alvin Toffler

#17. Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.

Erica Jong

#18. You have to make sure that you find projects that are not too similar and roles that are not too similar, so the challenges are new and you still learn things. I still think I can become a much better actor.

Stellan Skarsgard

#19. The old law permitted abortion to save one life when two would otherwise die. The new law permits abortion to take one life when two would otherwise live.

Herbert Ratner

#20. In addition the bill would expand an existing law 'conscience clause' that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures.

Ken Calvert

#21. While there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in America each year are a disgrace to civilization,

Margaret Sanger

#22. The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

Anthony Burgess

#23. Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.

Idries Shah

#24. One hundred percent of the bishops who oppose the repeal of anti-abortion laws are men and one hundred percent of the people who have abortions are women.

Mary Daly

#25. The one thing I hate about other managers is waffle that is nowhere near the truth. I would never conduct myself like that.

Alan Pardew

#26. I think it is a worthy goal in America to have every child protected by law and welcomed in life. I also think we ought to continue to have good adoption law as an alternative to abortion.

George W. Bush

#27. Women's right-to-know laws are supported by the overwhelming majority, not just of men, but of women, and 70% of the American people favor bans on abortion after the 20th week late term abortions.

Ralph E. Reed Jr.

#28. Every storm has a beginning, every storm has a perfect moment of bliss and every storm has a destructive end.

Len Webster

#29. I believe abortion should be available to everyone, but the law should be changed. In the past I voted for a restriction to 22 weeks and I would be prepared to go down to 20.

Michael Howard

#30. When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.

Aristotle.

#31. It's very clear that we are going to have 10 different [abortion] laws and that we are going to have these laws made by judges

Paul Martin

#32. I relate to [women and children in women's shelters] on a personal level because I've been there myself.

Nia Sanchez

#33. Even if it were decided in extreme cases that abortion is an ethical option, the extreme cases should not dictate the general law.

R.C. Sproul

#34. This is my dream, It is my own dream, I dreamt it. I dreamt that my hair was kempt. Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it.

Ogden Nash

#35. Nothing could be more grotesquely unjust than a code of morals, reinforced by laws, which relieves men from responsibility for irregular sexual acts, and for the same acts drives women to abortion, infanticide, prostitution, and self-destruction.

Suzanne La Follette