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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
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
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
Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. Abortion is profamily, prolife, moral, and good. For many millions of women, abortion has meant getting on with their lives and continuing to meet their responsibilities to themselves, their families, and society.
PATRICIA W. LUNNEBORG, Abortion: A Positive Decision
Abortion is not a favor for the medical profession to bestow but an obligation for them to perform.
LESLIE CANNOLD, The Abortion Myth
Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family. Our no-fault insurance has removed our responsibility for car accidents, and no-fault divorce has removed our responsibility for marriage accidents; why should abortion not be our no-fault sexual insurance policy that removes our responsibility for sex accidents?
PETER KREEFT, Three Approaches to Abortion
It would certainly be possible ... to argue that the destruction of a being evolving towards humanization is less morally wrong than the destruction of an already fully human being, but I cannot see that the difference in moral culpability would be a large one, given the fact that this zygote-embryo-fetus is the only possibility of existence for a human being-to-be. The human person that would have been but for the abortion would now never be. If respect for human life is a part of our moral code, therefore, I do not see how the destruction of such a potential human being could ever be less than seriously wrong, even if it were a lesser fault than the killing of an admittedly human person.
MARK MACGUIGAN, Abortion, Conscience, and Democracy
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
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
One method of destroying a concept is by diluting its meaning. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living.
AYN RAND, The Ayn Rand Lexicon
Our national institutions are braced for a seemingly endless clash of absolutes. The political stage is already dominated by the well-rehearsed and deeply felt arguments, on either side of the abortion issue, that we have come to know so well. The debate is unending. None of its participants ever seems even mildly persuaded by the arguments of the other side. As the apparently irresistible force of the pro-life movement bears down on the seemingly immovable object of abortion rights, local politics may at times be overwhelmed by the kind of single-issue campaigning that has already distorted the face of national elections. If this happens, the losers will be the democratic process and the American people.
LAURENCE H. TRIBE, Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes
Abortion is legal because babies can't vote.
JOSEPH BONKOWSKI, Quote Me
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
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
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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