Top 100 Quotes About Abortion
#1. Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily.
Mother Teresa
#2. While new rights are attributed to or indeed almost presumed by the individual, life is not always protected as the primary value and the primordial right of every human being. The ultimate aim of medicine remains the defence and promotion of life.
Pope Francis
#3. Abortion is an attack on the family and the humanity that unites us all.
Alveda King
#4. I am an adamant feminist. It never occurred to me to take my husband's name when we married. I am a supporter of abortion rights, of equal pay for equal work, of the rights of women prisoners, of all the time-honored feminist causes, and then some.
Ayelet Waldman
#5. Pro-life advocates don't oppose abortion because they find it distasteful; they oppose it because it violates rational moral principles. The negative emotional response follows from the moral wrongness of the act.
Scott Klusendorf
#6. The truth is that contraception saves lives, prevents unplanned pregnancies, improves outcomes for children and reduces the number of abortions.
Ann McLane Kuster
#7. I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.
Alan K. Simpson
#8. In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
Jesse Jackson
#9. 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
#10. I would have said yes to abortion if only it was right. I mean, yeah it's right. Well no it's not right that's why I said no to it.
George W. Bush
#11. 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.
Ginger Baker
#12. Every day we bear witness to each woman's knowledge of holding the profound power to decide whether or not to allow the life within her to come to term. The sharing of those moments makes abortion work sacred.
Merle Hoffman
#13. My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm-as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.
Camille Paglia
#14. I think it's important that (Roe v. Wade) remain legal for medical reasons and other reasons.
Laura Bush
#15. Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot be ignored.
Robert Casey
#16. The thing is, one in three women in the Western world will end up having an abortion, but they never talk about it. When you keep silent about that stuff, it is because you are embarrassed by the societal distaste of the topic.
Caitlin Moran
#17. War, is the emancipation of man; abortion, is the emancipation of woman.
Ibrahim Ibrahim
#18. Abortion doesn't belong in the political arena. It's a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
Bella Abzug
#20. It has come to the time where the most dangerous place to be in America is not the inner city, where gangs threaten innocent lives, or in angry prisons, where only the fit survive, but in the womb of a mother who is being told that if she doesn't really want the baby, an abortion is the solution.
Charles R. Swindoll
#22. We need to see abortion as an urgent practical decision that is just as moral as the decision to have a child - indeed, sometimes more moral.
Katha Pollitt
#23. Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.
Hemant Mehta
#24. Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#25. I am fairly certain that my abortion position hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, where turnout is relatively low, liberal voters turn out in disproportionately large numbers and thus exercise a disproportionate influence on the outcome.
Robert Casey
#26. Abortion is black genocide ... What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
Jesse Jackson
#27. Abortion is murder in the womb ... A child is a gift of God. If you do not want him, give him to me.
Mother Teresa
#28. I would, if checking boxes in a questionnaire, say I would oppose abortion except when the life of the mother is in danger.
Michael Baumgartner
#29. 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
#30. Women's bodies are public domain, as evidenced clearly at the present time by the furor over abortion. Everyone has an opinion about what a woman should or should not do with her body.
Maureen Murdock
#31. 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
#32. Abortion may bury our children, but it can never bury their memory.
Shadia Hrichi
#33. I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.
Nancy Reagan
#34. All anti-abortion protesters should be presented, on the spot, with an application to sign up as foster parents. They should also be given the names of children in their area in need of adoptive parents. And if they won't sign or volunteer, they should shut up.
Kurt Eichenwald
#35. 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
#36. When we choose to have an abortion, we must do so understanding the full ramifications of what we are doing. Anything less feels to me to be hypocritical, a selfish abnegation of reality and responsibility.
Ayelet Waldman
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#40. Abortion is a denial of one of those powers which make women women.
Janet E. Smith
#41. Paul Revere was warning the British about gun control, and George Washington apparently was crossing the Delaware to bomb an abortion clinic.
Bill Maher
#42. The Lord is much like the air around us. The air is all around us, it is everywhere. Even though we can't see it, it is there, we know it is there, because we are breathing. The Lord is everywhere too, you can't see Him, but He is there, we know He is there, because we are breathing. (Page 183)
Raymond D. Reifinger III
#43. I do not believe abortion should be legal.
Herman Cain
#44. Your mother must have been disappointed when the abortion only killed your conscience.
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#45. Thirty-two years after the legalization of abortion by the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the majority of Americans consider themselves pro-life.
Rick Santorum
#46. Humanity has overcome the food chain, and having surpassed all other predators, has now turned to a strange form of cannibalism: humanity preys upon itself. We cull our own herd. We murder our own children. This is what we call "progress".
A.E. Samaan
#47. In abortion they are trying to destroy the last bastion of the image of God.
R.C. Sproul Jr.
#48. Outlaw all abortions; err on the side of life.
Mike Huckabee
#49. By the time I was in high school, Roe v. Wade had passed, so that was also happening; girls were getting pregnant and getting abortions - and that happened in my school too.
Annette Bening
#50. [ ... ] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia [ ... ]
Sebastian Horsley
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Mother Teresa
#54. If the virgin Mary had an abortion, I'd still be carried in a chariot of stampeding horses.
Nas
#55. If I know anything about the character of God after fifty years of ministry, I know that God hates abortion.
R.C. Sproul
#56. Abortion sheds that innocent blood. Now, as a servant of the Lord, I dutifully warn those who advocate and practice abortion that they incur the wrath of Almighty God, who declared, "If men ... hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her ... he shall be surely punished."
Russell M. Nelson
#57. 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
#58. When they come to chronicle the decline of this civilization," he said, "they're going to wonder why we were debating flag burning, abortion, and broccoli eating instead of the fundamental issues of how we live and use the environment.
James Howard Kunstler
#59. Anyone who believes in a Jesus who condones abortion does not believe in the real Jesus, and therefore is not Christian.
Matt Walsh
#60. The methods used to take human lives, such as abortion, the pill, the ring, etc., amounts to genocide. I believe that legal abortion is legal murder ...
Fannie Lou Hamer
#61. Sometimes we talk about why we're importing so many people in our workforce. It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce had we not had the holocaust of liberalized abortion under a flawed Supreme Court ruling in 1973.
Mike Huckabee
#62. Life is sacred to me on all levels. Abortion does not compute with my philosophy.
Kate Mulgrew
#64. Aristotle didn't have a problem with abortion," she says.
"Oh, well, good, that's a comfort," I say.
Deborah Meyler
#65. Every 36 seconds in America a woman lays her body down forced to choose abortion out of a lack of practical resources and emotional support. Abortion is a reflection that society has failed women.
Patricia Heaton
#66. One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice.
William P. Leahy
#67. Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.
Alveda King
#68. Don't kid yourself. Keep the baby - I have no other advice for you. Children are the best thing in the world.
Elvira Baryakina
#69. How can we talk about the rights of a fertilized egg when we don't care enough to see that every child is born into a stable, safe, and nurturing environment?
Rebecca Warner
#70. 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.
#71. By rejecting abortion-on-demand, we can move our party back to the mainstream.
Robert Casey
#72. I don't think there is a good reason for an abortion, but Dr. Jasper made me really realize it was just a racket. He was just doing it for the money. He didn't care about the women.
Norma McCorvey
#73. It seemed like this was one big Prozac nation, one big mess of malaise. Perhaps the next time half a million people gather for a protest march on the White House green it will not be for abortion rights or gay liberation, but because we're all so bummed out.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#74. Put bluntly, abortion supporters have lost the argument on the scientific level.
Nancy Pearcey
#75. It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference.
Norma McCorvey
#76. Any woman should have the right to a safe and legal abortion.
Betty Ford
#77. The women working at abortion clinics are really on the front lines and the true heroes of feminism.
Betty Dodson
#78. However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.
Robert Casey
#79. 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
#80. My own views on abortion, I'm not on either pole of that and neither of the interest groups on either end of this issue would probably be comfortable with my views.
Stephen Harper
#81. 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
#82. If we lived in a culture that valued women's autonomy and in which men and women practiced cooperative birth control, the abortion issue would be moot.
Christiane Northrup
#83. The idea that making an activity legal would reduce its incidence is preposterous. This is exactly like the Clintonian statement about wanting to make abortion 'safe, legal and rare.' The most effective way to make something 'rare' is to make it illegal.
Ann Coulter
#84. Is biology destiny? And the answer is yes, sometimes it is. Women who have the fewest choices of all exercise their right to abortion the most.
Sallie Tisdale
#85. Never tire of firmly speaking out in defense of life from its conception and do not be deterred from the commitment to defend the dignity of every human person with courageous determination. Christ is with you: be not afraid!
Pope John Paul II
#86. Reproductive freedom is critical to a whole range of issues. If we can't take charge of this most personal aspect of our lives, we can't take care of anything. It should not be seen as a privilege or as a benefit, but a fundamental human right.
Faye Wattleton
#87. For too long the pro-life movement has been shouting conclusions rather than establishing facts. Staying focused on the status of the unborn brings moral clarity to the abortion debate.
Scott Klusendorf
#88. The bible says that all people, not just believers, possess part of the image of God; that is why murder and abortion are wrong.
Rick Warren
#90. Only religion could justify killing an adult with a family because he carried out abortions of unwanted or unhealthy fetuses that don't even have the intelligence of a typical fish.
David Alan Harvey
#91. When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#92. If the abortion issue is important to me, this is how you tackle that issue.
Donald Miller
#93. I want to make it clear that I do not judge or condemn any woman who has had an abortion, but every abortion is a tragedy and up to 100,000 abortions a year is this generation's legacy of unutterable shame.
Tony Abbott
#94. Abortion is a right I feel must not go away, and I feel like people aren't mobilizing so much because it's so complicated and it's difficult to understand.
Cynthia Nixon
#95. Andrew Saul is John Hall in a business suit. He's wrong on the war, on national security, immigration, abortion. He's Sue Kelly all over again.
Andrew Saul
#96. Birth Control and abortion are turning out to be the great eugenic advances of our time.
Frederick Osborn
#97. In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman.
Italo Calvino
#99. To destroy the fetus 'is something worse than murder.' The one who does this 'does not take away life that has already been born, but prevents it from being born.'
Saint John Chrysostom
#100. The male chromosome is an incomplete female chromosome. In other words the male is a walking abortion; aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.
Valerie Solanas
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