Abortion Quotes - Page 21

• Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.

  Camille Paglia

  Fit, Casual, Mass

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• First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Wade, Firsts, Amendments

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• Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party.

  Diane Abbott

  Party, Issues, Labour

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• I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Children, Practice, May

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• You don't have to do anything. Why worry? It's all god's plan anyway. Just love everyone and believe.

  Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr.

  Believe, Worry, God's Plan

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• You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Pain, Winning

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no choice, either

  John Irving

  Choices, Want, Matter

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• What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too.

  John Irving

  Choices, Freedom Of Choice, Your Freedom

  John Irving (2012). “The Cider House Rules”, p.606, Random House

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• Supporting a murderous political agenda with such an argument is tragic!

  Joseph Bayly

  Political, Agendas, Argument

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• Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family.

  Peter Kreeft

  Fate

  Peter Kreeft (2002). “Three Approaches to Abortion: A Thoughtful and Compassionate Guide to Today's Most Controversial Issue”, p.64, Ignatius Press

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• Women, justifiably, feel vulnerable at a time so many years after their journey for reproductive freedom started.

  Sarah Weddington

  Journey, Years, Vulnerable

  Sarah Ragle Weddington (1993). “A question of choice”, Penguin Group USA

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• You can't really protect women or men from their choices, so let them have their own lives and trust the process.

  Stephen Singular

  Men, Choices, Process

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• 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

  Needs, Birth Control, World

  "Conservativism and Feminism Combined - Tammy Bruce, an Openly Gay, Pro-Choice, Pro-Clinton, Pro-Bush Conservative, Defies Labels". Columbia Spectator, April 06, 2005.

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• What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth.

  Thomas Friedman

  Believe, Rest Of Life, Birth

  "Why I Am Pro-Life" by Thomas L. Friedman, www.nytimes.com. October 27, 2012.

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• Abortion is the taking of a life.

  Mary Calderone

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• I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.

  Nancy Reagan

  Believe, Hands, Choices

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• I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.

  Hippocrates

  Medicine, Giving, Produce

  Hippocrates (1849). “The Genuine Works of Hippocrates”, p.780

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• Even those who, like me, believe that Roe v. Wade and the decisions elaborating on reproductive rights were constitutionally correct must recognize that, for many on the right, the sudden and relatively sloppily reasoned character of the abortion rulings... did real damage to the Court's reputation as a relatively neutral arbiter of legal disputes.

  Laurence Tribe

  Real, Believe, Character

  "Supreme Court in a no-win position on Obamacare?" By David Gergen, www.cnn.com. June 12, 2012.

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• Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases.

  Rick Renzi

  Military, Moving, Nurse

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• If the nearly one-and-a-half million babies aborted in America each year could, somehow, vote, chameleon candidates would find fresh reason to be concerned about abortion, whereas now they are unconcerned.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Baby, Years, America

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• If people spent one hour per week in Eucharistic Adoration, abortion would be ended

  Mother Teresa

  People, Would Be, Week

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• More evangelicals today will visit abortion mills as clients than as ambassadors of Jesus Christ.

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Jesus, Ambassadors, Today

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• Black Americans make up 10 or 11% of the population, but they account now for something of 40 to 45% of all the abortions. This is a privileged position that I'm not sure anyone in their right mind would aspire to.

  Alan Keyes

  Black, Mind, Population

  Alan Keyes' Speech during Renew America rally at the McKay Events Center in Orem, Utah, www.keyesarchives.com. March 8, 2000.

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• One could call this a postnatal abortion on the part of a mother, I guess; I repudiate him entirely and completely for now and all times. . . . He is beyond human forgiveness.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Mother, All Time, Humans

  "UnGodly: The Passions, Torments, and Murder of Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair". Book by Ted Dracos, 2003.

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• I have a recurring daymare that when the Glorious People's SWAT Teams smash their way in, most of us - by which I mean members of the general freedom movement - will be caught flatfooted, sitting in our underwear behind our computer monitors, guzzling Jolt and gorging on Cheetos, while arguing with our friends and enemies online about immigration or abortion, two of the issues that the Lefties know they can always rely on to keep that general freedom movement divided and powerless.

  L. Neil Smith

  Team, Mean, Two

  "Pushing Rope". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. February 15, 2009.

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