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Many people are very, very concerned with the children in India, with the children in Africa where quite a number die, maybe of malnutrition, of hunger and so on, but millions are dying deliberately by the will of the mother. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today. Because if a mother can kill her own child - what is left for me to kill you and you kill me -- there is nothing between.
MOTHER TERESA, Nobel Lecture, Dec 11, 1979
Abortion should not only be safe and legal, it should be rare.
BILL CLINTON, speech at DNC, Aug. 29, 1996
Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.
POTTER STEWART, judicial opinion, Jun. 30, 1980
The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
RUTH BADER GINSBERG, Ms., Apr. 1974
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
Somebody who should have been born is gone.
ANNE SEXTON, The Abortion
Either you can subscribe to the American creed which says that God endowed us with our rights, or you can subscribe to the abortion creed which says that those rights are the consequences of our mother's will.
ALAN KEYES, speech at Southern Methodist University, Feb. 24, 1997
Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan, “Adoption, not Abortion,” although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective.
BARBARA EHRENREICH, The Worst Years of Our Lives
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.
It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth and moulders away as nature decrees. Man plans.
MAX FRISCH, Homo Faber: A Report
I’ve noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.
RONALD REAGAN, New York Times, Sep. 22, 1980
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
FLORYNCE R. KENNEDY, Ms., Mar. 1973
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.
Abortion raises moral and spiritual questions over which honorable persons can disagree sincerely and profoundly. But those disagreements did not then and do not now relieve us of our duty to apply the Constitution faithfully.
HARRY BLACKMUN, judicial opinion on Roe vs. Wade, Jan. 22, 1973
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