Abortion Quotes - Page 29

• I think it's really important to enlarge the issue behind abortion. I have been serving for over two decades and I have seen year in and year out largely the Republicans voting against women's contraception, family planning.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Years, Two

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• They [ Respublicans] wanna argue the sensational which is about abort not certain cases of abortion, but the fact is it's a fundamental disrespect for women - women's judgment about the sizing and time of their families.

  Barack Obama

  Disrespect, Fundamentals, Facts

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Women's right-to-know laws are supported by the overwhelming majority, not just of men, but of women, and 70% of the American people favor bans on abortion after the 20th week late term abortions.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Men, Law, People

  "June 30: Nancy Pelosi, Wendy Davis, Tim Huelskamp, Ralph Reed, Michael Eric Dyson, Jim DeMint, Rachel Maddow, Pete Williams". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. June 30, 2013.

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• There can be people who feel one way about gay rights, another way about gay rights. There can be people who have different views on abortion. But we respect each other. I think we learn from each other. And we understand that ultimately we have the same values.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Gay, Thinking, Rights

  "Rudy Giuliani Under the GOP's Big Tent". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. August 31, 2004.

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• What we do know is that the American people, regardless of how they feel about the abortion issue, don't think that taxpayer money ought to be used to pay for abortions.

  Mitch McConnell

  Thinking, Issues, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• You've got these twenty million people who call themselves the Evangelical Christians who will put their hand up and say, I believe in the devil, I'm against abortion and gay rights, and we have to blow up the world. It's frightening.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Christian, Believe, Gay

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• If you want to get an audience quiet, just say "abortion" and everybody shuts up and the tension in the room is spectacular.

  Lewis Black

  Rooms, Want, Quiet

  Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

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• Every other civilized country has determined when life begins and it's something that eludes us. We've got things that have to be done! "We didn't fix that bridge because you are all down at the meeting house discussing abortion again."

  Lewis Black

  Country, Bridges, Elude Us

  Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

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• When a minister or a clergyman takes seriously unfashionable Christian doctrines which condemn sex outside marriage, homosexuality, abortion, and feminism, and injects his views into the political debate, he is immediately denounced as a 'reactionary.'

  Benjamin Hart

  Christian, Religious, Sex

  Benjamin Hart (1988). “Faith & Freedom: The Christian Roots of American Liberty”

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• The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the evangelical community these days. I'm sure that these hot buttons will be pushed, time and time again.

  Tony Campolo

  Gay, Two, Issues

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• I don't believe that Jesus would approve abortion except in the case of incest, rape or the mother's life in danger. But I had to enforce the Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade so I tried to do everything I could to minimize the need for abortions.

  Jimmy Carter

  Mother, Jesus, Believe

  "Interview: President Jimmy Carter Talks About His New Bible and Christian Beliefs". Interview with Katherine T. Phan, www.christianpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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• If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good reason why mankind should be perceived as special. Human life is cheapened. We can see this in many of the major issues being debated in our society today.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Children, Men, Issues

  "The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west".

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• New Rule: If you can force a woman to look at a sonogram—to see what will happen if she has an abortion—you also have to let her see a crying baby, a bratty five-year-old, and a surly teenager to see what will happen if she doesn’t. And you have to tell her it costs $204,000 to raise it until it turns eighteen, in 2028, where it will be a slave to the Chinese, in a radioactive world with no animals, fish, or plants.

  Bill Maher

  Baby, Teenager, Animal

  Bill Maher (2011). “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass”, p.221, Penguin

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• Are you a censor? Do you tell people not to say “girl”? Shame on you! If nothing offends you, you’re a saint or you’re psychotic. If a few things offend you, deal with them--fairly. If you’re often offended by things, you’re probably a self-righteous asshole and it’s too bad you weren’t censored yourself--by your mother in an abortion clinic.

  William T. Vollmann

  Girl, Mother, Self

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• It moves one's heart to think: Nine months before I was born there was a woman who loved me deeply. She did not know what I was going to be like, but she loved me because she carried me in her womb.

  Oscar Romero

  Mother, Moving, Heart

  "The Violence of Love".

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• The solution [to a crisis pregnancy] is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother's values and her attitudes toward life.

  Jesse Jackson

  Mother, Baby, Attitude

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• It is a pity that...the majority of feminists and their allies have stuck to the dead ground of "Me Decade" possessive individualism, an ideology that has more in common than it admits with the prehistoric right, which it claims to oppose but has in fact encouraged.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Feminist, Allies, Majority

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• Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.

  Frederica Mathewes-Green

  Desperate

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• The crowning insult [of abortion] is that this ordeal is represented to her as some kind of a privilege.Her sad and onerous duty is garbed in the rhetoric of a civil right.

  Germaine Greer

  Privilege, Insult, Kind

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• The methods used to take human lives, such as abortion, the pill, the ring, etc., amounts to genocide. I believe that legal abortion is legal murder.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Believe, Pills, Etc

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• All my friends are always telling me how hard it is to have kids. 'Oh, David, it's so hard.' That's not hard. I'll tell you what hard is. Try talking your girlfriend into her third consecutive abortion. Yeah, that's hard, that takes finesse. You're just inconvenienced.

  David Cross

  Funny, Girlfriend, Humor

  "It's Not Funny". Stand-up comedy album by David Cross, November 14, 2004.

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• You have options when it comes to abortion now. It's not like 1955 when you just had to kick her down a staircase and hope for the best... you feed her a tapeworm and hope it takes a left at the Y.

  Doug Stanhope

  Funny, Humor, Staircases

  "Doug Stanhope: Deadbeat Hero". Comedy, 2004.

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• Did you know you can have an Irish abortion, but there is a 12 month waiting list?

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Humor, Waiting

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• If I believe that abortion is wrong, and I want to convince you that it's wrong, there's no reason I should recount to you my personal narrative of how I came to believe this.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Believe, Want, Narrative

  Interview with Tamler Sommers, www.believermag.com. August 2005.

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• Having the children you want, not having the children you don't want but in order to do that you have to have the right to abortion and the right to pay equity, those two give you choice. One or the other does not.

  Selma James

  Children, Order, Two

  Source: www.wsm.ie

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