Quotes About Roe V Wade

#1. 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

#2. The goal of the right is not to stop abortion but to demonize it, punish it and make it as difficult and traumatic as possible. All this it has accomplished fairly well, even without overturning Roe v. Wade .

Ellen Willis

#3. This is probably as bad a day as the court has had on social issues since "Roe v Wade."

Jerry Falwell

#4. After 'Roe v. Wade' - when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 - I thought the national conversation about abortion and birth control would be over. It was not.

Karen DeCrow

#5. The Republican agenda is, and always has been, to repeal Roe v. Wade, and at the very least, erode it to the greatest extent possible.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#6. It's time ... the Republican Party end the war on women they started. Whether it's the Blunt-Rubio amendment, personhood or attempts to repeal Roe v. Wade, we aren't going to let extremist politicians dictate to women what we can or cannot do with our bodies.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#7. First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Dennis Kucinich

#8. Instead of helping women in Roe v. Wade, I brought destruction to me & millions of women.

Norma McCorvey

#9. Dan Quayle thinks Roe v. Wade is two ways to cross the Potomac.

Patricia Schroeder

#10. Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.

Tony Campolo

#11. I sometimes wonder how many hours of my life I have wasted bitching about keyboards. The use of keyboards and synthesizers is the Roe v. Wade of '80s metal. It was-without question-the lamest instrument a band could use.

Chuck Klosterman

#12. But certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade, which would then force X number of women in America to [undergo] illegal and dangerous operations.

John McCain

#13. I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.

Rand Paul

#14. Not since before Roe v. Wade has a law or court decision had the potential to devastate access to reproductive health care on such a sweeping scale.

Nancy Northup

#15. I was an avidly pro-life governor; I'm an avidly pro-life individual. As a pro-life Republican, I am in favor of having the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade.

Mitt Romney

#16. When you represent the state of Washington, we have a tradition of deciding social issues by vote. Washington State passed abortion rights before Roe v. Wade and affirmed it at the ballot box later.

Michael Baumgartner

#17. I think it's important that (Roe v. Wade) remain legal for medical reasons and other reasons.

Laura Bush

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. Anti-abortion activists hope the 20-week abortion ban will be their opening to challenge and ultimately overturn Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court's landmark abortion rights decision.

Anonymous

#21. Mitt Romney would move the Court even further right, putting landmark decisions like Roe v. Wade at risk. Some say Romney would repeat the past. I disagree - he'd be worse.

Chuck Schumer

#22. They're all focusing on how John Roberts is going to decide Roe v. Wade. That isn't even the right question. I don't even know of a case in the (court) system that addresses it.

Jay Alan Sekulow

#23. I cannot stand people who disagree with me on the issue of Roe v. Wade ... which I believe is about the proper way to cross a lake.

Stephen Colbert

#24. I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years we should sustain and support it.

Mitt Romney

#25. Roe v. Wade was bad law and bad medical science,

Fred Thompson

#26. Even as a supporter of Roe v. Wade, I am compelled to acknowledge that the language both sides use on this subject can be unfortunately misleading and unconstructive ... Everyone is worse off for it

John F. Kerry

#27. For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.

David Horowitz

#28. I don't believe that Jesus would approve abortion except in the case of incest, rape or the mother's life in danger. But I had to enforce the Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade so I tried to do everything I could to minimize the need for abortions.

Jimmy Carter

#29. Among the most famous of these Supreme Court cases of exercise of political power I believe are the cases of Roe V. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, two 1973 cases based on false statements which created a constitutional right to abortion.

Sam Brownback

#30. While Roberts wanted to give the impression he respected the right to privacy and the precedent of Roe vs. Wade, his answers look dangerously similar to the responses (Associate Justice) Clarence Thomas gave senators during his confirmation hearings 14 years ago.

Nancy Keenan

#31. On the issues that I care deeply about - the environment, Roe vs. Wade, the war in Iraq, with no weapons of mass destruction, the tax cuts that are now leading to deficits, I've got some deep issues with the president.

Lincoln Chafee

#32. I was the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, but Jane Roe has been laid to rest.

Norma McCorvey

#33. America will never resist abortion until America sees abortion ... The pro-life movement is not primarily a response to Roe vs Wade. It is a response to Jesus Christ.

Frank Pavone