Abortion Quotes - Page 15

• In response to a question concerning China's policy of compulsory abortion after the first child, Molly Yard responded, "I consider the Chinese government's policy among the most intelligent in the world"

  Gary Bauer

  Children, Intelligent, Government

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• Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administration's support of abortion rights, Obama shows his lack of empathy for society's most powerless.

  Gary Bauer

  Powerful, Rights, Support

  FaceBook post by Gary L. Bauer from Apr 08, 2010

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• No doctor is going to do an abortion on a live fetus. That doesn't happen. Doctors don't do that. If they do, they'll get their license pulled, as well they should.

  Howard Dean

  Doctors, Fetus, Should

  Teleconference with reporters, January 15, 2004.

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• Of course, infanticide needs to be strictly legally controlled and rare - but it should not be ruled out, any more than abortion.

  Peter Singer

  Needs, Should, Infanticide

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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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• 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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• It is not possible to speak of the right to choose when a clear moral evil is involved, when what is at stake is the commandment, Do not kill!

  Mother Teresa

  Christian, Evil, Moral

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• Abortion sheds that innocent blood. Now, as a servant of the Lord, I dutifully warn those who advocate and practice abortion that they incur the wrath of Almighty God, who declared, "If men... hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her . . . he shall be surely punished."

  Russell M. Nelson

  Hurt, Children, Men

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• In the 21st Century, the anti-traditional marriage community is in league with the anti-life community, and together with the NAACP and other sympathizers, they are seeking a world where homosexual marriage and abortion will supposedly set the captives free.

  Alveda King

  Homosexual Marriage, League, Community

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• Expanding eligibility of family planning services to low-income women will maximize cost-savings to both federal and state governments, reduce the disparities in access to family planning services for low-income women, and decrease the incidence of abortion in the U.S

  Rosa DeLauro

  Government, Low Income, Saving

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• For nearly 2,000 years of Christian civilization, taking the life of an unborn child was regarded as a vile and heinous moral offense which degraded humanity. . . . Abortions to avoid illegitimate births, or otherwise for convenience, were performed with a secrecy that was as much the mark of the shame attaching to the deed as a consequence of its illegality.

  Ronald Butt

  Life, Christian, Children

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• Abortion is a denial of one of those powers which make women women.

  Janet E. Smith

  Catholic, Denial, Men Women

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• We need to realize that a society in which contraceptives are widely used is going to have a very difficult time keeping free of abortions since the lifestyles and attitudes that contraception fosters create an alleged "need" for abortion.

  Janet E. Smith

  Attitude, Time Keeping, Catholic

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