Abortion Quotes - Page 26

• I am not for abortion; nobody is for abortion. I am for your right to make your own hard choices in this world.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Choices, World, Hard

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• I believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the will of the former.

  Anna Quindlen

  Believe, Giving, Way

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.211, Ballantine Books

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• In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman.

  Italo Calvino

  Persons

  Italo Calvino (2013). “Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985”, p.455, Princeton University Press

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• The impulse to make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free is an old one ... When we are badly frightened, we think we can make ourselves safer by sacrificing some of our liberties. We did it during the McCarthy era out of fear of communism. Less liberty is regularly proposed as a solution to crime, to pornography, to illegal immigration, to abortion, to all kinds of threats.

  Molly Ivins

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Rights

  "'Evil Cowards' Threaten Freedom" by Molly Ivins, www.sfgate.com. April 25, 1995.

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• [The Republicans] offer . . . a detailed agenda for national renewal. . . . [On] reducing illegitimacy . . . the state will use . . . funds for programs to reduce out-of-wedlock pregnancies, to promote adoption, to establish and operate children's group homes, to establish and operate residential group homes for unwed mothers, or for any purpose the state deems appropriate. None of the taxpayer funds may be used for abortion services or abortion counseling.

  Newt Gingrich

  Mother, Children, Pregnancy

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• I was and am, like many women, both pro-life and pro-choice.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Choices, Pro Life

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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.

  Walter Benjamin

  Past, Views, Use

  Walter Benjamin, Michael William Jennings, Edmund Jephcott (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.60, Harvard University Press

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• Anybody who's against birth control and abortion has to be a criminal idiot.

  Eleanor Clark

  Criminals, Birth Control, Idiot

  Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins

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• In the old days, ptomaine poisoning was a cover-all. If you missed a show and you were young, it meant you were having an abortion. If you were old, it meant you were having a face lift.

  Ruth Gordon

  Faces, Moral, Manners

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• The real transgression occurs when religion wants government to tell citizens how to live uniquely personal parts of their lives. The failure of Prohibition proves the futility of such an attempt when a majority or even a substantial minority happens to disagree. Some questions may be inherently individual ones, or people may be sharply divided about whether they are. In such cases, like Prohibition and abortion, the proper role of religion is to appeal to the conscience of the individual, not the coercive power of the state.

  Edward Kennedy

  Real, Government, People

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• In nature, creatures never ended the lives of others except to survive. To women, abortion was self-defense and preservation of the species. Abortion was not a fancy borne out of the female mind. Abortion was instinct beyond ideas. Abortion was fear (the cat that devours its litter when a predator nears).

  Ana Castillo

  Cat, Self, Ideas

  Ana Castillo (1990). “Sapogonia: (an Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter)”, Bilingual Press

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• My abortion was so long ago I didn't think I needed help. I hoped God had forgiven me but I hadn't realized I didn't forgive myself. After attending this safe, nurturing group I know that I am forgiven and set free.

  Barbara

  Thinking, Long Ago, Forgiving

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• To look at the issue of life and abortion, actually we're moving in that direction where most Americans oppose most abortions.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, Issues, Looks

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think it's really important to enlarge the issue behind abortion. I have been serving for over two decades and I have seen year in and year out largely the Republicans voting against women's contraception, family planning.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Years, Two

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• They [ Respublicans] wanna argue the sensational which is about abort not certain cases of abortion, but the fact is it's a fundamental disrespect for women - women's judgment about the sizing and time of their families.

  Barack Obama

  Disrespect, Fundamentals, Facts

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Women's right-to-know laws are supported by the overwhelming majority, not just of men, but of women, and 70% of the American people favor bans on abortion after the 20th week late term abortions.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Men, Law, People

  "June 30: Nancy Pelosi, Wendy Davis, Tim Huelskamp, Ralph Reed, Michael Eric Dyson, Jim DeMint, Rachel Maddow, Pete Williams". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. June 30, 2013.

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• There can be people who feel one way about gay rights, another way about gay rights. There can be people who have different views on abortion. But we respect each other. I think we learn from each other. And we understand that ultimately we have the same values.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Gay, Thinking, Rights

  "Rudy Giuliani Under the GOP's Big Tent". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. August 31, 2004.

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• What we do know is that the American people, regardless of how they feel about the abortion issue, don't think that taxpayer money ought to be used to pay for abortions.

  Mitch McConnell

  Thinking, Issues, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• You've got these twenty million people who call themselves the Evangelical Christians who will put their hand up and say, I believe in the devil, I'm against abortion and gay rights, and we have to blow up the world. It's frightening.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Christian, Believe, Gay

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• If you want to get an audience quiet, just say "abortion" and everybody shuts up and the tension in the room is spectacular.

  Lewis Black

  Rooms, Want, Quiet

  Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

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• Every other civilized country has determined when life begins and it's something that eludes us. We've got things that have to be done! "We didn't fix that bridge because you are all down at the meeting house discussing abortion again."

  Lewis Black

  Country, Bridges, Elude Us

  Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

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• When a minister or a clergyman takes seriously unfashionable Christian doctrines which condemn sex outside marriage, homosexuality, abortion, and feminism, and injects his views into the political debate, he is immediately denounced as a 'reactionary.'

  Benjamin Hart

  Christian, Religious, Sex

  Benjamin Hart (1988). “Faith & Freedom: The Christian Roots of American Liberty”

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• Christ died that we might live. This is the opposite of abortion. Abortion kills that someone might live differently.

  John Piper

  Opposites, Might, Christ

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• It isn't sex by itself that makes abortion. It is sex plus covetousness: desiring things that God does not will for us to have because we are not willing to find our satisfaction in him. Illicit sex and unencumbered freedom without children: for these we covet, and abortion is the result.

  John Piper

  Sex, Children, Satisfaction

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• The vast majority of abortions are performed between the seventh and tenth week when the baby is already sucking his thumb, recoiling from pricking, responding to sound. All his organs are present, the brain is functioning, the heart is pumping, the liver is making blood cells, the kidneys are cleaning fluids, and there is a fingerprint. His genetic code is uniquely and unquestionably human. And, if we are willing, he can be seen by ultrasound.

  John Piper

  Baby, Heart, Cells

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