Pro Choice Abortion Quotes

• When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Children, Abortion, Pro Life

  Letter to Julia Ward Howe recorded in Howe's diary at Harvard University Library, October 16, 1873.

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  Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.

  Mother Teresa

  Country, Teaching, People

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.98, Image

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• No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

  Margaret Sanger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.

  Frederica Mathewes-Green

  Animal, Ice, Feminist

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• Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.

  Edward Abbey

  Pro Life, Abortion, Want

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.44, RosettaBooks

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• If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?

  Gayle Forman

  Children, Choices, Trust Me

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.43, Penguin

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• The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Women, Abortion, Privacy

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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.

  Hillary Clinton

  Men, Choices, Pro Life

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  If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Sex, Pregnancy, Men

  Quoted in Ms., Mar. 1973

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• I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.

  Julianna Baggott

  Running, Believe, Men

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• I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, we’ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don’t believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain, and lifelong, grinding poverty show us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we’ve made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred.

  Caitlin Moran

  Pain, War, Believe

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• We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Children, Worry, Choices

  "Joycelyn Elders is Back!". "The Rush Limbaugh Show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. March 13, 2014.

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• How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelette?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Abortion, Religion

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

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• I used to be pro-choice."..."I was once pro-choice and the thing that changed my mind was, I read my husband's biology books, medical books, and what I learned . . . At the moment of conception, a life starts. And this life has its own unique set of DNA, which contains a blueprint for the whole genetic makeup. The sex is determined. We know there's a life because it's growing and changing.

  Kathy Ireland

  Sex, Husband, Book

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• One method of destroying a concept is by diluting its meaning. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living.

  Ayn Rand

  Rights, Choices, Destroying

  "A Last Survey - Part I". The Ayn Rand Letter, Vol. IV, No. 2, 1975.

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• Young women need to know that abortion rights and abortion access are not presents bestowed or retracted by powerful men (or women) - Presidents, Supreme Court justices, legislators, lobbyists - but freedoms won, as freedom always is, by people struggling on their own behalf.

  Katha Pollitt

  Powerful, Struggle, Men

  Katha Pollitt (2007). “Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture”, p.308, Modern Library

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• How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with LOVE, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts.

  Mother Teresa

  Hurt, Mean, Giving

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.97, Image

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• Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.

  Camille Paglia

  Abortion, Fit, Casual

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• I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

  Stanley Fish

  Should Have, Choices, Pro Life

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• What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth.

  Thomas Friedman

  Believe, Rest Of Life, Abortion

  "Why I Am Pro-Life" by Thomas L. Friedman, www.nytimes.com. October 27, 2012.

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• Pro-choice and pro-life activists live in different worlds, and the scope of their lives, as both adults and children, fortifies them in their belief that their own views on abortion are the more correct, the more moral, and more reasonable. When added to this is the fact that should 'the other side' win, one group of women will see the very real devaluation of their lives and life resources, it is not surprising that the abortion debate has generated so much heat and so little light.

  Kristin Luker

  Children, Real, Winning

  Kristin Luker (1985). “Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood”, p.215, Univ of California Press

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• Love means to be willing to give until it hurts.

  Mother Teresa

  Hurt, Mean, Giving

  Mother Teresa's address at the National Prayer Breakfast (Sponsored by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives), www.ewtn.com. February 3, 1994.

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• You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really.

  Ellen Barkin

  Cute, Daughter, Mother

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• Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn't get pregnant.

  Kathleen Parker

  Pregnancy, Equality, Men

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• My argument has always been that nature has a master plan pushing every species toward procreation and that it is our right and even obligation as rational human beings to defy nature's fascism. Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.

  Camille Paglia

  Pushing, Argument, Fit

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