ABORTION QUOTES

quotations about abortion

If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwanted government intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision to bear or beget a child.

WILLIAM BRENNAN

attributed, Privacy: A Vanishing Value?

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A person is a person no matter how small.

DR. SEUSS

Horton Hears a Who

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I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

RONALD REAGAN

New York Times, Sep. 22, 1980

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No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.

FREDERICA MATHEWES-GREEN

Policy Review, Summer 1991

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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.... He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.

TERTULLIAN

attributed, The Bible on Abortion

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No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

MARGARET SANGER

Woman and the New Race

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Somebody who should have been born is gone.

ANNE SEXTON

"The Abortion"

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If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

FLORYNCE R. KENNEDY

Ms., March 1973

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Abortion is legal because babies can't vote.

JOSEPH BONKOWSKI

Quote Me


What is this ban on abortion? It is a survival of the veiled face, of the barred window and the locked door, burning, branding, mutilation, stoning, of all the grip of ownership and superstition come down on woman, thousands of years ago.

STELLA BROWNE

attributed, The Sexual Dynamics of History

Tags: women


How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.

MOTHER TERESA

attributed, Everybody for Everybody

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Abortion should not only be safe and legal, it should be rare.

BILL CLINTON

speech at DNC, Aug. 29, 1996

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Some people say abortion is killing a baby -- it's not. It's stopping a baby from happening. It's like Back to the Future and abortion is a DeLorean.

MICHELLE WOLF

The Break, July 8, 2018


Any woman who has felt a baby stir inside her [and] any man who has seen the tiny heart pulsing on an ultrasound screen, knows that abortion is about ending a life.

KAREN KISSANE

attributed, The Abortion Myth

Tags: life


I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is not being pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is trusting the individual to make the right decision for herself and her family, and not entrusting that decision to anyone wearing the authority of government in any regard.

HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON

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Abortion ... interferes with God's plan--a plan He willed before He created the universe. Abortion is in violation of God-given life.

RICHARD C. HALVERSON

attributed, Quotes Worth Repeating

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When you peel back the layers of the anti-choice motivation, it always comes back to two things: What is the nature and purpose of human sexuality? And second, what is the role of women in the world? Sex and the role of women are inextricably linked, because if you can separate sex from procreation, you have given women the ability to participate in society on an equal basis with men.

GLORIA FELDT

attributed, Huffington Post

Tags: women, sex


I had an abortion. I am simply one of millions of women who have exercised this constitutionally protected right, and according to recent data, I am part of the 95 percent of women who do not regret their choice.

AMY BRENNEMAN

"Amy Brenneman: Why I'm Sharing My Abortion Story", Cosmopolitan, February 29, 2016


I am pro-choice, but I find that abortion is a failure of the feminist establishment. With every kind of birth control available in the world, abortion is not something to be proud of. If you need an abortion, you've failed.

TAMMY BRUCE

speech at Columbia University, Apr. 6, 2005

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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should ... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.

NANCY REAGAN

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