Abortion Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Animal, Ice, Feminist

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• If the unborn is a human person, no justification for abortion is adequate.

  Greg Koukl

  Adequate, Justification, Humans

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• The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Women, Responsibility, Rights

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2017). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.98, Grove Press

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• And by the way, my belief is that if men were the ones getting pregnant, abortions would be easier to get than food poisoning in Moscow.

  Dennis Miller

  Men, Choices, Would Be

  Dennis Miller (1999). “Ranting Again”, Main Street Books

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• We must appreciate the dignity of life in all its seasons, even the path of the elderly in the twilight of their years, to work toward the day when every child, born and unborn, is welcomed to life and protected by law.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Twilight, Elderly

  Address to the Catholic Press Association Convention, May 26, 2000.

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• The right to life is the first among human rights.

  Pope Francis

  Rights, Pro Life, Firsts

  "10 must-read quotations from Pope Francis: portrait of a forceful thinker". www.lifesitenews.com. March 15, 2013.

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• In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Individual Choice, Choices, Three

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• I'm against abortion.

  Charles Evers

  Against Abortion

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• Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Education, Sex, Party

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• Having worked as a labor and delivery nurse...I've seen ultrasounds...you know that those babies are real.

  Naomi Judd

  Baby, Real, Ultrasounds

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• It is not a loss of inert, amorphous tissue, but of a growing being unique in history.

  Frederica Mathewes-Green

  Loss, Unique, Tissues

  "The Bitter Price of Choice". Washington Times, December 22, 1989.

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• But when I look in the basin, among the curdlike blood clots, I see and elfin thorax, attentuated, its pencilline ribs all in parallel rows with tiny knobs of spine rounding upwards. A translucent arm and hand swim beside.

  Sallie Tisdale

  Blood, Hands, Swim

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• It is significant that, as innocent babies are killed, and capital punishment is withheld from their murderers, the same men who plead for the murderer's life also demand the “right” to abortion. Usually, the same picketers that carry a sign one day, “Abolish Capital Punishment,” also carry “Legalize Abortion” another day. When this is called to their attention, their answer is, “There is no contradiction involved.” They are right: the thesis is “condemn the innocent and free the guilty.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Baby, Men, One Day

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• Every 36 seconds in America a woman lays her body down forced to choose abortion out of a lack of practical resources and emotional support. Abortion is a reflection that society has failed women.

  Patricia Heaton

  Emotional, Reflection, America

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• 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

  Adoption, Atheism, Experts

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.

  Julie Burchill

  Men, Feminism, Facts

  Damaged Goods "Born Again Cows" (1986)

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• Covertly invest into non-White areas, invest in ghetto abortion clinics. Help to raise
  money for free abortions, in primarily non-White areas. Perhaps abortion
  clinic syndicates throughout North America, that primarily operate in
  non-White areas and receive tax support, should be promoted.

  Margaret Sanger

  Ghetto, America, White

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• Abortion is black genocide...What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?

  Jesse Jackson

  Baby, Black, Mind

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• In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.

  Jesse Jackson

  Tough Economic Times, People, Desperate

  Interview With Michael Bendetson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2009.

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• Abortion's a private decision. But I just think it shouldn't be federalized.

  Pat Robertson

  Thinking, Decision

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• Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Grief, Bad Ass

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• How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelette?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Religion, Chickens

  "Back in Town". Documentary, Comedy, 1996.

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• [I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Pro Life, Would Be, Daylight

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “To the Perplexed”

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• I deplore the horrible crime as child murder....no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent,the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed...but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which compelled her to the crime.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Children, Suffering, Desire

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• [It] is no longer a matter of taste or opinion...it is plain experimental evidence.

  Jerome Lejeune

  Taste, Matter, Opinion

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