Pregnancy Abortion Quotes

#1. The reason Social Security is in big trouble is we don't have enough workers to support the retirees. Well, a third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion, because one in three pregnancies end in abortion.

Rick Santorum

#2. In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.

Margaret Halsey

#3. Statutes that curtail her abortion choice are disturbingly suggestive of involuntary servitude, prohibited by the Thirteenth Amendment, in that forced pregnancy requires a woman to provide continuous physical service to the fetus in order to further the state's asserted interest.

Dawn Johnsen

#4. The right to privacy ... is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

Harry A. Blackmun

#5. They had a silent staring contest, but Percy didn't back down. When he and Annabeth started dating, his mother had drummed it into his head: It's good manners to walk your date to the door. If that was true, it had to be good manners to walk her to the start of her epic solo death quest.

Rick Riordan

#6. Don't confuse the evil of avoiding pregnancy by itself, with abortion. Abortion is not a theological problem, it is a human problem, it is a medical problem. You kill one person to save another, in the best case scenario.

Pope Francis

#7. the late 1940s, hospitals in many states set up abortion committees to which a woman seeking to terminate her pregnancy could appeal.9 It was a humiliating process, which could involve multiple physical examinations and interrogations by unsympathetic doctors.

Katha Pollitt

#8. Golf is the only sport I know of where a player pays for every mistake. A man can muff a serve in tennis, miss a strike in baseball, or throw an incomplete pass in football and still have another chance to square himself. In golf, every swing counts against you.

Lloyd Mangrum

#9. In order to terminate a pregnancy, you have to still a heartbeat, switch off a developing brain.

Christopher Hitchens

#10. There is no longer serious doubt in my mind that human life exists from the very onset of pregnancy.

Bernard Nathanson

#11. 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.

Paul Broun

#12. Some people will make nonsense excuses to avoid things they have no interest in doing.

Ellen J. Barrier

#13. I've been very lucky to work with many amazing animators and directors who can interpret and extend the music I make. When it's done well, it can create extra meaning and new context for the song.

Gotye

#14. Prior to Roe , ... whether one could obtain a legal abortion in the face of an unwanted pregnancy was a crap shoot. For 30 years now, it's been a constitutionally guaranteed right

David Garrow

#15. Without unwanted pregnancies, there will be no abortion; and with wanted pregnancy there will be no abortion. JAMES.

James C. Uwandu

#16. In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, venereal disease, teen pregnancy, and abortion.

Gregory S. Paul

#17. We need to support these women who are in crisis pregnancy situations.

Kathy Ireland

#18. Although every person makes mistakes, not every mistake makes a person.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#19. The Vatican won't prosecute pedophile priests but I decide I'm not ready for motherhood and it's condemnation for me? These are the same people that won't support national condom distribution that PREVENTS teenage pregnancy.

Sonya Renee Taylor

#20. I was hamming it up so much you could virtually taste the salad too.

Storm Constantine

#21. Pregnancy and childbirth are not only physical and medical experiences, after all. They are also social experiences that, in modern America, just as when abortion was criminalized in the 1870s, serve to restrict women's ability to participate in society on equal footing with men.

Katha Pollitt

#22. There's a difference between early and late abortions. If you have a late abortion, where the fetus might feel pain, then I think you should have a good reason. Because then you're inflicting pain. As you go through the third trimester, you need to have more serious reasons to end a pregnancy.

Peter Singer

#23. Unlike the vast majority of Americans, he did not assume that a woman seeking an abortion late in pregnancy was lazy or stupid or too busy having sex to have attended to matters early on. He did not assume that her body ceased to be her own because she was pregnant.

Katha Pollitt

#24. Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for abortion.

Louise Slaughter

#25. Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.

Laurie Anderson

#26. I knew I couldn't do what Eddie Izzard does, so I just tried to write some stories that were based, or partly based, on my own experiences.

Deirdre O'Kane

#27. Golf has become so manicured, so perfect. The greens, the fairways. I don't like golf carts. I like walking. Some clubs won't let you in unless you have a caddy and a cart.

Robert Redford

#28. Abortion on demand, throughout the full nine months of a pregnancy, for virtually any reason, became public policy in the United States of America. No other developed democracy had, or has, such a permissive abortion regime.

Robert Casey

#29. I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

Rob Machado

#30. America doesn't have an abortion problem - it has an unwanted pregnancy problem, and an abortion symptom.

John Fugelsang

#31. No, I'm the human here. I'm the life at stake. I'm the one with fingernails, who feels pain.

Me.

Alicen Grey

#32. 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

#33. The Democratic policy is any abortion, any time, for any reason at any point in a woman's pregnancy, right up until the last minute, to be paid by taxpayers. Barbara Boxer described this policy as, 'It's not a life until it leaves the hospital.'

Carly Fiorina

#34. 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

#35. Ultimately abortion takes place because there is something wrong within the culture, within the system, and not simply because this or that particular woman is seeking to end an unwanted pregnancy.

Ronald Rolheiser

#36. The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire

Hermann Hesse

#37. I had a second trimester abortion. I was pregnant with a much-wanted child who was diagnosed with a genetic abnormality. I made a choice to terminate the pregnancy. It was my third pregnancy, and I was very obviously showing. More important, I could feel the baby move.

Ayelet Waldman