Abortion Quotes - Page 18

• While Texas women have the right to safe, legal abortion, in reality there are already very few facilities in Texas to provide this essential care. In 2008, 92 percent of Texas counties had no abortion provider.

  Wendy Davis

  Reality, Texas, Essentials

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• Abortion-centered feminism is dead.

  Marjorie Dannenfelser

  Feminism

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• No one can doubt that there are times when an abortion is justifiable but they will become unnecessary when care is taken to prevent conception. This is the only cure for abortions.

  Margaret Sanger

  Taken, Eugenics, Doubt

  "Family Limitation". Book by Margaret Sanger, Revised, Eighth Edition. Chapter: "A Nurse's Advice to Women", www.nyu.edu. 1918.

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• But responsibility likewise falls on the legislators who have promoted and approved abortion laws, and, to the extent that they have a say in the matter, on the administrators of the health-care centers where abortions are performed. In this sense abortion goes beyond the responsibility of individuals and beyond the harm done to them, and takes on a distinctly social dimension. It is a most serious wound inflicted on society and its culture by the very people who ought to be societys promoters and defenders.

  Pope John Paul II

  Fall, Responsibility, Abortion Laws

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• Laws which legitimize the direct killing of innocent human beings through abortion or euthanasia are in complete opposition to the inviolable right to life proper to every individual; they thus deny the equality of everyone before the law.

  Pope John Paul II

  Law, Killing, Innocent

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• We are not here to advocate abortion. We do not ask this Court to rule that abortion is good or desirable in any particular situation. We are here to advocate that the decision as to whether or not a particular woman will continue to carry or will terminate a pregnancy is a decision that should be made by that individual. That, in fact, she has a constitutional right to make that decision for herself and that the state has shown no interest in interfering with that decision

  Sarah Weddington

  Pregnancy, Decision, Facts

  Sarah Weddington (2013). “A Question of Choice: Roe v. Wade 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.156, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Even as a supporter of Roe v. Wade, I am compelled to acknowledge that the language both sides use on this subject can be unfortunately misleading and unconstructive.... Everyone is worse off for it.

  John F. Kerry

  Use, Wade, Sides

  "Kerry Speaks About Faith, 'Godly Tasks'" by Michael R. Blood, www.washingtonpost.com. September 18, 2006.

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• The fingers and toes and beating hearts that we can see on an unborn child's ultrasound come with something that we cannot see: a soul

  George W. Bush

  Children, Heart, Ultrasounds

  George W. Bush's address to March for Life Rally Participants, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. January 22, 2008.

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• As I see with Lori's testimony, you say what good could come out of all these abortions and all what she's been through? But she has been a part of a new Bible for women, a mentoring Bible.

  Jim Bakker

  Mentor, Testimony, Has Beens

  "The Best of Interviews With Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Messner". “CNN Larry King Weekend”, www.cnn.com. June 24, 2001.

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• Usually this desire [for family limitation] has been laid to economic pressure It has asserted itself among the rich and among the poor, among the intelligent and the unintelligent. It
  has been manifested in such horrors as infanticide, child abandonment and abortion.

  Margaret Sanger

  Children, Intelligent, Desire

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I just have a more holistic sense of what it means to be for life, knowing that life does not just begin at conception and end at birth, and that if I am going to discourage abortion, I had better be ready to adopt some babies and care for some mothers.

  Shane Claiborne

  Mother, Baby, Mean

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• Unless and until it can be proven that an unborn child is not a living human being, can we justify assuming without proof that it isn't? No one has yet offered such proof; indeed, all the evidence is to the contrary.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Understanding, Together

  "Ronald Reagan".

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• The President must be true to his word. He must keep his faith with the folks who elected him twice. In other words, he must replace Sandra Day O'Connor with a strict constructionist. The president has a God-given opportunity to change the balance on the Supreme Court. On issue after issue—abortion, sodomy, public display of the Ten Commandments—O'Connor has sided with the court's liberal bloc. Time and again, Justice O'Connor and her colleagues have used the Constitution as an excuse to force weird social experiments on the nation.

  Rick Scarborough

  Opportunity, Issues, Justice

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• Due to the potent combination of my sexual recklessness and the slutty nature of some of the girls I have slept with, I have accumulated enough stories and anecdotes about abortion that they could name a Planned Parenthood clinic after me.

  Tucker Max

  Girl, Names, Anecdotes

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• The religious hospitals would jeopardize their patients' lives rather than perform a medically necessary abortion is not mere speculation, it is documented fact.

  Nancy Northup

  Religious, Patient, Hospitals

  "New Bill Would Allow Religious Hospitals to Deny Life-Saving Emergency Care" by Nancy Northup, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2011.

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• In China, I witnessed forced abortions and forced sterilizations performed on women who were told that the children they were carrying were 'illegal'. I went with them when they were arrested and remained with them as they were subjected to mind-bending psychological torture. And I accompanied them as they went in tears to the local clinic to have their pregnancies aborted.

  Steven W. Mosher

  Children, Pregnancy, Mind

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• We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionists. We are pro-private sector or pro-government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us hold these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Government, Views

  "Mediasaurus" by Michael Crichton, www.wired.com. April 1, 1993.

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• I preume there are far too many abortions performed in this country. And I also believe that at the end of the day, as much as I might disapprove, none of them are really any of my business.

  Dennis Miller

  Country, Believe, The End Of The Day

  Dennis Miller (2011). “Ranting Again”, p.116, Main Street Books

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• We call on the Senate to reject any judicial nominee who does not affirm fundamental civil rights, including a woman's right [to obtain an abortion on demand]. The threat an [pro-life] judiciary poses to women's lives demands nothing less.

  Susana Martinez

  Rights, Pro Life, Doe

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• The Democratic Party's complete obeisance to [the abortion] lobby makes Democrats look bought, frightened and craven.

  Peggy Noonan

  Party, Looks, Politics

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• I think abortion's wrong, but it's none of my business to tell somebody what's wrong, he said. So I'm pro-choice. I want to keep my nose out of other people's personal business. I guess I fall into conservative when it comes to protecting the United States in a world where a lot of people hate the United States.

  Dennis Miller

  Hate, Fall, Thinking

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• It is to a dramatist, which is to say, to an unfrocked psychoanalyst, stunning that that which has sustained the Left in my generation, its avatar, its prime issue, has been abortion. For, whether or not it is regarded as a woman's right, an unfortunate necessity, or murder, which is to say, irrespective of differing and legitimate political views, to enshrine it as the most important test of the Liberal, is, mythologically, an assertion to the ultimate right of a postreligious Paganism.

  David Mamet

  Views, Issues, Political

  David Mamet (2011). “The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture”, p.163, Penguin

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• Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Mean, Law, Choices

  "The Place of Women on the Court". Interview with Emily Bazelon, www.nytimes.com. July 7, 2009.

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• Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.

  Walter Benjamin

  Beautiful, Block, Past

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• How come when it's us, it's an abortion, and when it's a chicken, it's an omelette? Are we so much better than chickens all of a sudden? When did this happen; that we passed chickens in goodness? Name six ways we're better than chickens. See, nobody can do it! You know why? 'Cause chickens are decent people.

  George Carlin

  Names, People, Way

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

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