Abortion Quotes - Page 3

• I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.

  Stanley Fish

  Rights, Support, Clear

  Stanley Eugene Fish (1999). “The Trouble with Principle”, p.285, Harvard University Press

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• I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again.

  Jesse Ventura

  Mistake, Thinking, Support

  Jesse Ventura (2000). “I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up”, p.38, Villard

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• I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.

  Stephen Harper

  Believe, Government, Alliances

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• The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.

  Jim Wallis

  Faith, Religious, Gay

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• The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.

  Ken Calvert

  Children, Purpose, Custody

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• The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.

  Christopher Lasch

  Attitude, School, Defense

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• No woman has an abortion for fun.

  Elizabeth Joan Smith

  Fun

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• A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.

  Robert Reich

  Gay, Social Values, Rights

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• If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies.

  Louise Slaughter

  Pregnancy, Should, Preventing

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• We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.

  Bart Stupak

  Voting, Care, Language

  "Democratic Congressman Bart Stupak: Health Care Hero or Villain?". On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. March 05, 2010.

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• I could never, ever have an abortion.

  Brooke Shields

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  If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Sex, Pregnancy, Men

  Quoted in Ms., Mar. 1973

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• In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.

  Leon Kass

  Pregnancy, Fetus, Pits

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• My own views on abortion, I'm not on either pole of that and neither of the interest groups on either end of this issue would probably be comfortable with my views.

  Stephen Harper

  Views, Issues, Groups

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• Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for abortion.

  Louise Slaughter

  Children, Pregnancy, Track

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• If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privacy, which ends up becoming ultimately the right to abortion.

  Jay Sekulow

  Firsts, Becoming, Looks

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• ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Mean, Eras, Privilege

  "A new version of the ERA" by Beth Fouhy, edition.cnn.com. August 25, 1999.

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• But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion.

  Stephen Harper

  Party, Believe, Should Have

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• Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.

  James Carville

  Catholic, Church, Different

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• I really didn't know there was two sides to the abortion issue.

  Norma McCorvey

  Two Sides, Issues, Knows

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• The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts--a child--as a competitor, an intrusion and an inconvenience.. .

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Children, Father

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• However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.

  Tony Blair

  Ideas, Choices, Should

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• Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.

  Edward Abbey

  Pro Life, Want, Maternity

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.44, RosettaBooks

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• We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren't enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Cutting, Ebola, People

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• Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.

  Mother Teresa

  Rights, Government, Pro Life

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