Abortion Quotes - Page 17

• The real motivation of the campaign to criminalize abortion is to establish the principles that women's bodies belong to the state and that women bear the responsibility for sex.

  Marilyn French

  Sex, Motivation, Real

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• I've had a baby. I've had an abortion.

  Jemima Kirke

  Baby

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.

  Victoria Moran

  Two, Issues, Sides

  "Abortion and Reverence for Life: Grappling with My Father’s ‘Other Job’" by Victoria Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2011.

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• A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence.

  Marc Racicot

  Judging, Decision, President

  "Late-term abortion ban ruled unconstitutional". www.cnn.com. June 2, 2004.

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• Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors who perform abortions. The words themselves are latent, inert, harmless - until they aren't.

  Amy Waldman

  Christian, Gay, Doctors

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• When we choose to have an abortion, we must do so understanding the full ramifications of what we are doing. Anything less feels to me to be hypocritical, a selfish abnegation of reality and responsibility.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Selfish, Responsibility, Reality

  Ayelet Waldman (2013). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.113, Hachette UK

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• One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice.

  William P. Leahy

  Divorce, Rights, Issues

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• That said, I can't emphasise enough - and I hope you print this - that I absolutely don't judge anybody at all who has an abortion, nor do I think they are murderers, nor do I think they are baby killers.

  Louise Mensch

  Baby, Thinking, Judging

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• The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Travel, Thinking, Ideas

  "Cynthia Nixon: Abortion debate's new voice". Interview with Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. December 21, 2009.

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• It just so happens that people aren't doing comedy about abortion or cannibalism or waterboarding. And that to me doesn't necessarily mean that there aren't aspects of those subjects that are funny, it just means that people are too uptight.

  Rob McElhenney

  Mean, People, Uptight

  "Looking At The 'Sunny' Side Of Life". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. September 17, 2008.

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• The male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage

  Valerie Solanas

  Males, Female, Scum

  The S.C.U.M. Manifesto (1967)

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• I think abortion should be mandatory for about 30 years.

  Dan Savage

  Thinking, Years, Should

  "From the Festival of Dangerous Ideas". "Q&A" with Tony Jones, November 4, 2013.

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• If the pro abortionists were not in control of the press, I am convinced that not only would the debate on abortion be over by now (have we really even had a national debate?), but the Pro-Life side would be victorious because we would have seen the pictures every night on television of what is taking place behind the doors of the abortion clinics and hospitals.

  Cal Thomas

  Night, Doors, Pro Life

  Cal Thomas (1990). “Uncommon Sense: A Layman's Briefing Book on the Issues”, Wolgemuth & Hyatt Pub

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• Most physicians regard abortion as a stigmatized operation done by people who are otherwise incompetent and can't do anything else.

  Warren Hern

  People, Physicians, Done

  American Medical News, September 5, 1994.

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• As people turn to contraception, there will be a rise, not a fall, in the abortion rate.

  Malcolm Potts

  Fall, People, Rate

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• How it is that within 60 days of a general election issue, groups can no longer tell voters that a Member of Congress votes pro-abortion, against guns, against the environment or whatever else is beyond me.

  Paul Weyrich

  Gun, Issues, Groups

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• At the end of the two years that I was the director [of the Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health in Manhattan], we had done 60,000 abortions. [During my life] I myself, with my own hands, have done 5,000 abortions. I have supervised another 10,000 that residents have done under my direction. So I have 75,000 abortions in my life. Those are pretty good credentials to speak on the subject of abortion.

  Bernard Nathanson

  Hands, Years, Two

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• I remember laughing when we made those slogans up [about abortion]. . . . We were looking for some sexy, catchy slogans to capture public opinion. They were very cynical slogans then, just as all of these slogans today are very, very cynical.

  Bernard Nathanson

  Sexy, Laughing, Cynical

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• The Rosary, especially prayed in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, is a powerful means of spiritual grace. In all of our efforts to promote the sanctity of human life, prayer is our first and strongest resource. May we rely upon the power of our Lord's presence in the Blessed Sacrament and the intercession of His Blessed Mother to guide and help us in fostering a greater respect for human life and an end to abortion in our society.

  Thomas Vose Daily

  Mother, Spiritual, Prayer

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• If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.

  Carter Heyward

  Serious, Would Be, Sacred

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• I was told a lie from the pit of hell: that my baby was just a blob of tissue. The aftermath of abortion can equally deadly for both mother and unborn child. A woman who has an abortion is sentenced to bear that for the rest of her life.

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Mother, Baby, Children

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• 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 Clinton

  Men, Choices, Decision

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• The diabolical work that has taken place since the legalization of abortion is that it has destroyed, in those tragic women who have allowed their child to be murdered, their sense for the sacredness of maternity. Abortion not only murders the innocent; it spiritually murders women... the wound created in their souls is so great that only God's grace can heal it. The very soul of a woman is meant to be maternal.

  Alice von Hildebrand

  Children, Taken, Soul

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• Abortion is without a doubt one of the greatest moral evils within modernity. As the "Advocate of Christian Memory," a pope must take up the mantle of defending the culture of life - a defense the Early Church held against the pagans of Rome.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Memories, Rome

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• Abortion is 'the great modern sin.

  Karl Barth

  Christian, Sin, Modern

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