Top 41 Quotes About Legal Abortion
#1. Any woman should have the right to a safe and legal abortion.
Betty Ford
#2. 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
#3. Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
Karen DeCrow
#4. To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.
Shirley Chisholm
#5. On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.
Nancy Keenan
#6. Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.
Robert Casey
#7. While Texas women have the right to safe, legal abortion, in reality there are already very few facilities in Texas to provide this essential care. In 2008, 92 percent of Texas counties had no abortion provider.
Wendy Davis
#8. AMA report both confirmed the public health benefits of legal abortion and foresaw the public health danger of legislative attempts to turn back the clock on American women.
David A. Grimes, M.D.
#9. 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
#10. There is nothing better than music as a means for upliftment of the soul.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#12. When I am in charge of a vessel, I always command; nobody commands but me. I take all the responsibility, all the risks, all the hardships that my office would call upon me to take. I do not steer by any man's compass but my own.
Michael A. Healy
#13. 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
#14. My favorite team while I was growing up was the New Orleans Saints. My favorite player was Joe Horn.
Jacoby Jones
#15. The boys wore black T-shirts, dark hoodies and permanent sneers and their hair was an open rebellion against society and interfering mothers. - Zombiekins
Kevin Bolger
#16. In the Netherlands now, I imagine it's legal to marry your own children. Get them pregnant, and you can abort your unborn grandbabies in a free clinic that used to be a church.
David Sedaris
#17. I believe it should be the legal right of any woman who wants to have an abortion to have one. From the spiritual point of view, I don't see a problem with abortion in that the soul doesn't usually take incarnation until the last month before birth, sometimes not even until the moment of birth.
Frederick Lenz
#18. There comes a time when a human being has to either face evil or admit to allowing it. Abortion is legal in the United States, but it should not be celebrated or used as a political tool. Viable babies are human beings.
Bill O'Reilly
#19. I try to do a lot of asymmetrical, triangular compositions - I find those work really well for comic book covers in that portrait mode, and I don't always see that in other artists.
Jim Lee
#20. For me, life is the most beautiful gift of God to mankind, therefore people and nations who destroy life by abortion and euthanasia are the poorest. I do not say legal or illegal, but I think that no human hand should be raised to kill life, since life is God's life in us, even in an unborn child.
Mother Teresa
#21. Although abortion has been legal nationwide for more than a quarter century, access remains difficult for many women.
David Grimes
#23. 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
#24. Explosive force of any mortification. Every vanquished desire affords us power. We have the more hold over this world the further we withdraw from it, the less we adhere to it. Renunciation confers an infinite power.
Emil M. Cioran
#26. When people speak of the borderline between genius and madness, why is it so evident what they mean?
James Gleick
#27. 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
#28. I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country.
Mitt Romney
#29. You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.
Hillary Clinton
#30. History is full of wrongs done the wife by legal robbery on the part of the husband. I hesitate not to assert that most of this crime of child murder, abortion, infanticide, lies at the door of the male sex.
Matilda Joslyn Gage
#31. I'd be the best mum ever. I would. I've got great training from my mum.
Kelly Osbourne
#32. 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.
Robert Casey
#33. Bump! Bump! Bump! Did you ever ride a wump? We have a Wump with just one hump. But, we know a man called Mr. Gump. Mr Gump has a seven hump Wump. So ... if you Bump! Bump! Just jump on the hump on the Wump of Gump.
Dr. Seuss
#34. 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
#35. And he wreaked havoc among the buttered toast as he said it.
Isaac Asimov
#36. If you think about it, fiction is nothing more than gossip about the people you've made up.
John Dufresne
#37. I do not believe abortion should be legal.
Herman Cain
#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. When you're a pitcher for the Houston Astros and a stranger notices you in a mall in Colorado, you know things have really changed.
Brad Lidge
#40. I'll cry anywhere because I can do it quite subtly. Walking, that's a good time to have a cry.
Sharon Horgan
#41. I think it's important that (Roe v. Wade) remain legal for medical reasons and other reasons.
Laura Bush
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