Abortion Quotes - Page 37

• Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  War, Issues, Diversity

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• I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.

  Barbara Bush

  Hate, Choices, I Hate

  Barbara Bush (2015). “Barbara Bush: A Memoir”, p.487, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.

  Barbara Bush

  Outspoken

  "THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Barbara Bush; First Lady on Abortion: Not a Platform Issue" by Alessandra Stanley, www.nytimes.com. August 14, 1992.

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• When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don't think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

  Jimmy Carter

  Thinking, Errors, People

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• Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.

  Robert Casey

  Children, Mean, Parenting

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• I can't find anything in the Constitution that says you prefer the life of the mother, or the convenience of the mother if it's an abortion by choice, over the potential life of the fetus. Look, I think women, if they're required to not have abortions, could die and could - so I favor a woman's right to choose.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Mother, Thinking, Choices

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• Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular.

  Alveda King

  Lying, Racism, Evil

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• Abortion is an attack on the family and the humanity that unites us all.

  Alveda King

  Humanity

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• Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

  Karl Kraus

  Sorry, Law, Citizens

  Karl Kraus (1977). “No Compromise: Selected Writings of Karl Kraus”, Frederick Ungar

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• What some men don't understand is that by opposing policies to reduce violence, promote equal pay and universal healthcare and voting to limit access to contraception and legal abortion, they are relegating women to another century, a time when men ruled exclusively and women were considered property and had to be guided by a firm masculine hand.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Men, Equal Pay, Hands

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• Global warming is a political issue. It is as much a political issue to the left as abortion is. It's as big a political issue as health care is.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Issues, Political, Care

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• If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.

  Antonin Scalia

  Thinking, Ideas, Want

  "Scalia Slams 'Living Constitution' Theory". www.foxnews.com. March 14, 2005.

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• I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule.

  Arlen Specter

  Thinking, Government

  "Specter: 'I'm pro-choice ... But I don't make the decisions'". "Judy Woodruff's Inside Politics", www.cnn.com. November 9, 2004.

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• Together, we will protect the sanctity of life, ensuring early next Congress that no federal funds are used for abortion.

  Fred Upton

  Together, Next, Used

  "Upton hits right tone to win gavel" by Darren Samuelsohn, www.politico.com. December 07, 2010.

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• Listen to the pregnant woman. Value her. She values the life growing inside her. Listen to the pregnant woman, and you cannot help but defend her right to abortion.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Growing, Helping, Pregnant Women

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• Everyone knows now how early a fetus becomes a baby. Women who have been pregnant have seen their babies on ultrasounds. They know that there is a terrible truth to those horrific pictures the anti-choice fanatics hold up in front of abortion clinics.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Baby, Ultrasounds, Choices

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• I am an adamant feminist. It never occurred to me to take my husband's name when we married. I am a supporter of abortion rights, of equal pay for equal work, of the rights of women prisoners, of all the time-honored feminist causes, and then some.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Husband, Equal Pay, Names

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• […] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]

  Sebastian Horsley

  Misery, Life Is, Euthanasia

  Sebastian Horsley (2016). “Dandy in the Underworld”, p.44, Hachette UK

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• The New York Times and the rest of the mainstream media will only refer to partial birth abortion as 'what its opponents refer to as partial birth abortions.' What do its supporters call it? Casual Fridays? Bean-with-bacon potato chip dip? Uh . . . Steve?

  Ann Coulter

  Friday, New York, Media

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• The idea that making an activity legal would reduce its incidence is preposterous. This is exactly like the Clintonian statement about wanting to make abortion 'safe, legal and rare.' The most effective way to make something 'rare' is to make it illegal.

  Ann Coulter

  Ideas, Safe, Way

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.211, Crown Forum

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• I don't eat chicken abortions!

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Chickens

  Cecily Von Ziegesar (2003). “You Know You Love Me: A Gossip Girl Novel”, p.153, A&C Black

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• The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is unaccountability. Liberals have invented whole college majors--psychology, sociology, women's studies--to prove that nothing is anybody's fault. No one is fond of taking responsibility for his actions, but consider how much you'd have to hate free will to come up with a political platform that advocates killing unborn babies but not convicted murderers. A callous pragmatist might favor abortion and capital punishment. A devout Christian would sanction neither. But it takes years of therapy to arrive at the liberal view.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Christian, Baby, Hate

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.21, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• In my view, the pro-life movement at this point should focus on seeking to reduce the number of abortions. At times it will require political education and legal fights, at times it will require education and the establishment of alternatives to abortion, such as adoption centers. Unfortunately, such measures are sometimes opposed by so-called hard-liners in the pro-life movement. These hard-liners are fools. Because they want to outlaw all abortions, they refuse to settle for stopping some abortions; the consequence is that they end up preventing no abortions.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Fighting, Views, Numbers

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• I do not believe a person can take two issues from Scripture, those being abortion and gay marriage, and adhere to them as sins, then neglect much of the rest and call himself a fundamentalist or even a conservative. The person who believes the sum of his morality involves gay marriage and abortion alone, and neglects health care and world trade and the environment and loving his neighbor and feeding the poor is, by definition, a theological liberal, because he takes what he wants from Scripture and ignores the rest.

  Donald Miller

  Believe, Gay, Two

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• In Illinois a pregnant woman who takes an illegal drug can be prosecuted for 'delivering a controlled substance to a minor.' This is an explicit recognition that the unborn is a person with rights of her own. But that same woman who is prosecuted and jailed for endangering her child is perfectly free to abort her child. In America today, it is illegal to harm your preborn child, but it is perfectly legal to kill him.

  Randy Alcorn

  Children, Rights, America

  Randy Alcorn (2009). “Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments”, p.97, Multnomah

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