Abortion Quotes - Page 12

• A woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.

  Barry Goldwater

  Religious, Decision, Religion

  Barry Morris Goldwater, C. C. Goldwater (2007). “The Conscience of a Conservative”, p.133, Princeton University Press

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• The fact that some people are opposed on religious grounds mainly, well, that doesn't bother me as long as they're not allowed to influence other people by force or by whatever other means.

  Henry Morgentaler

  Religious, Mean, Long

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• Every child a wanted child; every mother a willing mother.

  Henry Morgentaler

  Mother, Children, Wanted

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• Just because something happens to be legal does not make it moral, ethical or right. Abortion is perhaps one of the most dramatic examples of a situation where something is legal, but is very much a sin against God.

  Al Barry

  Example, Doe, Moral

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• The right to life is not a woman's issue. The Lord is the giver of life and only He can make choices about life. It is always a reward to have life ... only the Lord gives and takes life.

  Margaret Heckler

  Issues, Giving, Choices

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• If a physician presumes to take into consideration in his work whether life has value or not, the consequences are boundless and the physician becomes the most dangerous man in the state.

  Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

  Men, Physicians, Dangerous Man

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• There is no more important issue than restoring the protection of the law to pre-natal infants.

  Gordon J. Humphrey

  Law, Issues, Important

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• Garrett Hardin. Parenthood: Right or Privilege? Science Magazine.

  Bob Marshall

  Privilege, Magazines, Parenthood

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• I am a little discouraged and irritated at the welfare recipient families growing in size all the time. Those of us who work and pay taxes all the time shouldn't have to pay for these kids.

  Hilmar Moore

  Kids, Growing, Littles

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• I can't imagine any reasonably responsible person arguing against the abortion of mongols ... If we could tell what foetuses are going to be affected with cancer in their 40s and 50s, I would be for aborting them now.

  Cecil Jacobson

  Cancer, Would Be, Arguing

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• Women who were reputed believers began to resort to drugs for producing sterility. They also girded themselves around, so as to expel what was being conceived. For they did not wish to have a child by either slave or by any common fellow - out of concern for their family and their excessive wealth. See what a great impiety the lawless one has advanced! He teaches adultery and murder at the same time!

  Hippolytus of Rome

  Children, Drug, Wish

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• The evidence I see tells me the unborn is a human being.

  Dolores O'Riordan

  Evidence, Unborn, Humans

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• The fight for the right to life is not the cause of a special few, but the cause of every man, woman and child who cares not only about his or her own family, but the whole family of man.

  Mildred Fay Jefferson

  Children, Fighting, Men

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• I definitely thought about it long and hard, about if I wanted to keep the baby or not, and I wasn't thinking about adoption. I do think every woman should have the right to do what they want, but I don't think it's talked through enough. I can't even tell you how many people just say, 'Oh, get an abortion.' Like it's not a big deal.

  Kourtney Kardashian

  Baby, Thinking, Should Have

  "Kourtney Kardashian Agonized Over Whether to Keep Her Baby" by David Caplan, people.com. August 19, 2009.

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• Abortion does not compute with my philosophy.

  Kate Mulgrew

  Philosophy, Doe

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable term 'female physician' should be exclusively applied to those women who carried on this shocking trade seemed to me a horror. It was an utter degradation of what might and should become a noble position for women.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Motherhood, Female, Degradation

  Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

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• If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within five years men would be having abortions!

  Harry Browne

  War, Men, Years

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• Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded convivial excesses, as certainly wrong, but so venial as scarcely to deserve censure.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Average, Feminist, Excess

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1869). “History of European morals: from Augustus to Charlemagne. II”, p.23

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• Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of the adoptive parents.

  George W. Bush

  Two, Parent, Adoption

  George W. Bush (2010). “Decision Points”, p.113, Random House

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• Laws which authorize and promote abortion and euthanasia are therefore radically opposed not only to the good of the individual but also to the common good; as such they are completely lacking in authentic juridical validity. Disregard for the right to life, precisely because it leads to the killing of the person whom society exists to serve, is what most directly conflicts with the possibility of achieving the common good. Consequently, a civil law authorizing abortion or euthanasia ceases by that very fact to be a true, morally binding civil law.

  Pope John Paul II

  Law, Facts, Common

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• The legal toleration of abortion or of euthanasia can in no way claim to be based on respect for the conscience of others, precisely because society has the right and the duty to protect itself against the abuses which can occur in the name of conscience and under the pretext of freedom.

  Pope John Paul II

  Names, Abuse, Way

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• Taking into account these distinctions, in harmony with the Magisterium of my Predecessors[81] and in communion with the Bishops of the Catholic Church, I confirm that euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.

  Pope John Paul II

  Law, Catholic, Church

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• The choice of euthanasia becomes more serious when it takes the form of a murder committed by others on a person who has in no way requested it and who has never consented to it. The height of arbitrariness and injustice is reached when certain people, such as physicians or legislators, arrogate to themselves the power to decide who ought to live and who ought to die.

  Pope John Paul II

  People, Choices, Height

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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• Unlike abortion nobody gets hurt when gays marry but it does have deep implications for what kind of society we want to be. Therefore, individual states should decide the question.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Hurt, Gay, Doe

  "Bill O'Reilly: The politics of gay marriage" by Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. May 10, 2012.

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• My position is that I am personally opposed to abortion, but I don't think I have a right to impose my view on the rest of society. I've thought a lot about it, and my position probably doesn't please anyone. I think the government should stay out completely. I will not vote to overturn the Court's decision. I will not vote to curtail a woman's right to choose abortion. But I will also not vote to use federal funds to fund abortion.

  Joe Biden

  Thinking, Government, Views

  "Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics". Book by Joe Biden, July 31, 2007.

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