Abortion Quotes - Page 5

• Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Pro Life, Fellowship, Lord Of The Ring

  "Fictional character: Galadriel". "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly anti-women. Three quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Baby, Pro Life

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• [It] is no longer a matter of taste or opinion...it is plain experimental evidence.

  Jerome Lejeune

  Taste, Matter, Opinion

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• Child murderers practice their profession without let or hindrance, and open infant butcheries unquestioned...Is there no remedy for all this ante-natal child murder?

  Caroline Norton

  Children, Practice, Murder

  "Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly", November 9, 1870.

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• America you are beautiful . . . and blessed . . . . The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being, but especially the weakest and most defenseless. If you want equal justice for all and true freedom and lasting peace, then America, defend life.

  Pope John Paul II

  Beautiful, Blessed, Greatness

  Pope John Paul II (2012). “A Pilgrim Pope: Messages for the World”, p.242, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The sensations of dismemberment flow through the forceps like an electric current.

  Warren Hern

  Electric Current, Flow, Currents

  Speech at the Associations of Planned Parenthood Physicians meeting, San Diego, October 26, 1978.

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• Abortion's a private decision. But I just think it shouldn't be federalized.

  Pat Robertson

  Thinking, Decision

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• Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Grief, Bad Ass

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• A pro-choice advocate sees abortion as a decision to be made in accordance with the best scientific opinion as to when the beginning of life, as we know it, occurs.

  Stanley Fish

  Choices, Decision, Opinion

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• I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, we’ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don’t believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain, and lifelong, grinding poverty show us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we’ve made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred.

  Caitlin Moran

  Pain, War, Believe

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• If a woman plans to terminate her pregnancy, she commonly refers to the life within her as the 'fetus'. But if she intends to deliver and love and care for the little child, she affectionately calls him 'my baby'.

  James Dobson

  Baby, Children, Pregnancy

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• How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelette?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Religion, Chickens

  "Back in Town". Documentary, Comedy, 1996.

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• After fertilization has taken place a new human being has come into being.

  Jerome Lejeune

  Taken, Humans, Human Beings

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• I really don't believe in abortion. It's like killing a baby.

  Justin Bieber

  Baby, Believe, Cocky

  "Justin Bieber Talks Sex, Politics, Music and Puberty In New 'Rolling Stone' Cover Story". Rolling Stone Interview, www.rollingstone.com. February 16, 2011.

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• Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Mother, Children, Caring

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• I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion.

  Maxine Waters

  Mother, March

  "Crossfire" with James Carville and Tucker Carlson, edition.cnn.com. May 3, 2004.

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• [I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Pro Life, Would Be, Daylight

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “To the Perplexed”

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• I used to be pro-choice."..."I was once pro-choice and the thing that changed my mind was, I read my husband's biology books, medical books, and what I learned . . . At the moment of conception, a life starts. And this life has its own unique set of DNA, which contains a blueprint for the whole genetic makeup. The sex is determined. We know there's a life because it's growing and changing.

  Kathy Ireland

  Sex, Husband, Book

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• Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.

  Tony Campolo

  Thinking, Wade, Common

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• Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words "abortion" or "tax hikes" pass their lips.

  Ann Coulter

  Government, Lips, Literature

  "Put the tax cut in a lock box" by Ann Coulter, townhall.com. February 21, 2002.

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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.

  Hillary Clinton

  Men, Choices, Pro Life

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• Young women need to know that abortion rights and abortion access are not presents bestowed or retracted by powerful men (or women) - Presidents, Supreme Court justices, legislators, lobbyists - but freedoms won, as freedom always is, by people struggling on their own behalf.

  Katha Pollitt

  Powerful, Struggle, Men

  Katha Pollitt (2007). “Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture”, p.308, Modern Library

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• Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child and be loved by the child.

  Mother Teresa

  Children, Couple, Giving

  "Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others".

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• To accept the fact that, after fertilization has taken place, a new human has come into being is no longer a matter of taste or opinion. The human nature of the human being from conception to old age is not a metaphysical conception. It is plain experimental evidence.

  Jerome Lejeune

  Taken, Age, Matter

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• The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Children, Rights, Individual

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