Abortion Quotes - Page 22

• I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals of the people of Missouri, but let them settle that matter for themselves. I hold that the people of the slaveholding States are civilized men as well as ourselves, that they bear consciences as well as we, and that they are accountable to God and their posterity and not to us. It is for them to decide therefore the moral and religious right of the slavery question for themselves within their own limits.

  Stephen A. Douglas

  Religious, Men, Rights

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• When the lives of the unborn are snuffed out, they often feel pain, pain that is long and agonizing.

  Ronald Reagan

  Pain, Long, Agonizing

  Address to the National Religious Broadcasters Convention, delivered 30 January 1984, Sheraton Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• I am against abortion; I think that life is sacred and we should take a position of being against abortion. I think it is wrong to take human life. I think that human life starts at conception.

  Billy Graham

  Thinking, Sacred, Life Is

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• My case was wrongfully decided and has caused great harm to the women and children of our nation.

  Norma McCorvey

  Children, Cases, Harm

  "The Truth about Roe v. Wade (according to 'Jane Roe,' Norma McCorvey)" by Norma McCorvey, www.epm.org. March 2, 2000.

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• It is my deep personal conviction that abortion is wrong. I hope that some day we will see the current outrageously large number of abortions drop sharply...let me assure you that I share youR belief that innocent human life must be protected.

  Al Gore

  Numbers, Belief, Innocent

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• In order to terminate a pregnancy, you have to still a heartbeat, switch off a developing brain.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Pregnancy, Order, Brain

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• The baby's life is never willfully destroyed because the mother's life is in danger.

  C. Everett Koop

  Mother, Baby, Life Is

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• Each individual has a very neat beginning, at conception.

  Jerome Lejeune

  Individual, Neat, Conception

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• The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.

  Ashley Montagu

  Simple, Facts, Birth

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• As an O.B. doctor of thirty years, and having delivered 4,000 babies, I can assure you life begins at conception.

  Ron Paul

  Baby, Years, Doctors

  "Values Voter Presidential Debate". www.keyesarchives.com. September 17, 2007.

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• Scientifically, there's no debate over whether the fetus is alive and human.

  Ron Paul

  Fetus, Alive, Debate

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• So the time line of when we consider a fetus 'human' is arbitrary after conception.

  Ron Paul

  Fetus, Arbitrary, Lines

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• Human life commences at the time of conception.

  Landrum Shettles

  Human Life, Humans, Conception

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• You don't have the right to be left alone with that abortion decision. The child is present...you are not alone.

  Douglas Wilson

  Children, Decision, Left Alone

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• Although abortion has been legal nationwide for more than a quarter century, access remains difficult for many women.

  David Grimes

  Century, Quarters, Difficult

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• The immediate problem is, where will the doctors come from?

  Sarah Weddington

  Doctors, Problem

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• We have got to have more providers to replace those who are leaving.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Leaving, Providers

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• Creating life simply to destroy it is wrong.

  Mel Gibson

  Creating Life, Creating

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• I think it's important to promote a culture of life. I think a hospitable society is a society where every being counts and every person matters. I believe the ideal world is one in which every child is protected in law and welcomed to life. I understand there's great differences on this issue of abortion. But I believe reasonable people can come together and put good law in place that will help reduce the number of abortions.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, Children, Believe

  Presidential debate in Tempe, Arizona, www.nytimes.com. October 13, 2004.

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• We're not going to spend taxpayers' money on abortion. This is an issue that divides America. But certainly reasonable people can agree on how to reduce abortions in America.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, America, Issues

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• I think it is a worthy goal in America to have every child protected by law and welcomed in life. I also think we ought to continue to have good adoption law as an alternative to abortion.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, Children, Thinking

  Presidential candidate debate in St. Louis, Missouri, www.cnn.com. October 9, 2004.

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• I will veto any spending bill that contains funding for Planned Parenthood, facilities that perform abortion and all government family planning schemes.

  Ron Paul

  Crazy, Government, Bills

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• My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm-as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.

  Camille Paglia

  Suicide, Thinking, Drug Use

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.7, Vintage

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• Jerry Falwell says that abortion and homosexuality are sins. Oh yeah? Well, so is gluttony, Jerry. So maybe you should think about dropping 50 pounds.

  Dennis Miller

  Thinking, Pounds, Sin

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• I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government has argued in the Supreme Court that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion.

  Samuel Alito

  Government, Doe, Quota

  Samuel Alito's letter (1985), as quoted in "Alito denied that Constitution protected abortion" by Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2005.

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