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Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women. -- Alice Paul
Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. -- Alveda King
Every 36 seconds in America a woman lays her body down forced to choose abortion out of a lack of practical resources and emotional support. Abortion is a reflection that society has failed women. -- Patricia Heaton
You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion. -- Hillary Clinton
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between. -- Mother Teresa
We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time. -- Pope Francis
Abortion is a blessing. -- Anne Nicol Gaylor
Abortion is profoundly anti-women. -- Mother Teresa
Abortion-centered feminism is dead, -- Marjorie Dannenfelser
Abortion is a woman's right. -- Roseanne Barr
Abortion is 'the great modern sin. -- Karl Barth
Abortion happens because of economic circumstances. -- Nat Hentoff
Abortion is an act of self-defense. -- Alice Walker
Abortion does not compute with my philosophy -- Kate Mulgrew
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion. -- Mother Teresa
Abortion is in violation of God-given life. -- Richard Halverson
Abortion is either OK or it's not. -- Peggy Noonan
Abortion is the taking of a life. -- Mary Calderone
Abortion continues to be a scourge against this country. -- Franklin Graham
Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party. -- Diane Abbott
Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness. -- Hillary Clinton
What shall we do about the Abortion Bill?" A: "Pay it! -- Pierre Trudeau
I notice that everbody who is Pro-Abortion already has been born. -- Ronald Reagan
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born. -- Ronald Reagan
Abortion's a private decision. But I just think it shouldn't be federalized. -- Pat Robertson
Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people. -- George Pell
Abortion restrictions 'reduce pregnant women to no more than fetal containers.' -- Dawn Johnsen
I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born. -- Ronald Reagan
Abortion should not only be safe and legal, it should be rare. -- William J. Clinton
Abortion ... interferes with God's plan-a plan He willed before He created the universe. -- Richard Halverson
Abortion is a denial of one of those powers which make women women. -- Janet E. Smith
Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
You Know How To Stop Abortion? Require That Each One Occur With A Gun. -- Rush Limbaugh
Abortion is an attack on the family and the humanity that unites us all. -- Alveda King
In reality, most women 'choose' abortion because they believe they have no other choice. -- Patricia Heaton
Life is sacred to me on all levels. Abortion does not compute with my philosophy. -- Kate Mulgrew
Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family. -- Peter Kreeft
Thats what abortion is - killing innocent humans for money. Abortionists are government licensed hit men. -- Charley Reese
Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself. -- Adrienne Rich
Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate. -- Frederica Mathewes-Green
Birth Control and abortion are turning out to be the great eugenic advances of our time. -- Frederick Osborn
Abortion doesn't belong in the political arena. It's a private right, like many other rights concerning the family. -- Bella Abzug
Abortion is an atrocity. Those who practice or praise it are either damn idiots, misguided fools, or treacherous devils. -- Christopher Titus
Christ died that we might live. This is the opposite of abortion. Abortion kills that someone might live differently. -- John Piper
The right to life is the first human right. Abortion is killing someone that cannot defend him or herself. -- Pope Francis
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish. -- Mother Teresa
There is no longer serious doubt in my mind that human life exists from the very onset of pregnancy. -- Bernard Nathanson
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. -- Thomas Jefferson
Abortion is the easy way out. It's hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations. -- Tony Abbott
Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life -- Potter Stewart
Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life. -- Potter Stewart
It is horrific even to think that there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day -- Pope Francis
Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want. -- Mother Teresa
Abortion can never be safe. Any procedure where "success" means the killing of another human being can certainly not be safe. -- Abby Johnson
Abortion is an act of desperation. It's an awful solution to a situation that God can work out for good through adoption. -- Bob Carlisle
Abortion on demand has, in my judgment, contributed significantly to an environment in our country in which life has become very cheap. -- Robert Casey
Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. It is a crime. It is to throw someone out in order to save another. -- Pope Francis
Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were! -- Pope John Paul II
Abortion is murder in the womb...A child is a gift of God. If you do not want him, give him to me. -- Mother Teresa
And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? -- Mother Teresa
I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available. -- Hillary Clinton
Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the eucharist. That's why it uses the same holy words, "This is my body," with the blasphemous opposite meaning. -- Peter Kreeft
Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
Abortion is a right I feel must not go away, and I feel like people aren't mobilizing so much because it's so complicated and it's difficult to understand. -- Cynthia Nixon
Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense. -- Alice Walker
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
Abortion is not an issue with the American people. It is a figment of your imagination if you think that this is an issue that is talked about a lot. -- Dan Quayle
Liberals never, ever drop a heinous idea; they just change the name. Abortion becomes choice, communist becomes progressive, communist dictatorship becomes people's democratic republic and Nikita Khrushchev becomes Barack Obama. -- Ann Coulter
It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth and moulders away as nature decrees. Man plans. -- Max Frisch
While I was the mayor abortions in New York went down and adoptions went way up, because we worked on adoptions as an alternative, so that there'd be a real choice. -- Rudy Giuliani
Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don't want to alienate half your audience by sending one message or the other. -- Cynthia Nixon
I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught. -- Dick Gephardt
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
The death penalty? Give me a break. It's easy. Abortion? Absolutely easy. Nobody ever thought the Constitution prevented restrictions on abortion. Homosexual sodomy? Come on. For 200 years, it was criminal in every state. -- Antonin Scalia
We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other? -- Mother Teresa
Abortion occurs so frequently in my stories. Abortion sort of synthesizes both sex and death. To have sex and death placed as close to one another as possible is always a goal of mine. -- Chuck Palahniuk
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
Abortion is black genocide...What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience? -- Jesse Jackson
Abortion raises moral and spiritual questions over which honorable persons can disagree sincerely and profoundly. But those disagreements did not then and do not now relieve us of our duty to apply the Constitution faithfully. -- Harry A. Blackmun
Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded convivial excesses, as certainly wrong, but so venial as scarcely to deserve censure. -- William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Abortion on demand, throughout the full nine months of a pregnancy, for virtually any reason, became public policy in the United States of America. No other developed democracy had, or has, such a permissive abortion regime. -- Robert Casey
Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly anti-women. Three quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers. -- Mother Teresa
I don't think there is a good reason for an abortion, but Dr. Jasper made me really realize it was just a racket. He was just doing it for the money. He didn't care about the women. -- Norma McCorvey
I wont use abortion as a litmus test with a pro-choice individual. Someone that is an activist on the abortion issue, I think, goes outside the pale, and I cannot support an activist on the abortion issue. -- Ken Buck
Abortion and gay marriage are the political hot-buttons of the day. There are lot of things going wrong in the world, hate is running amok, so why just focus on these two hot-buttons and not everything else? -- Robert Hood
People in different cultures think very differently about abortion. Abortion is not seen as a moral problem for example in Sweden or Russia, but it is seen as a difficult moral problem in China and in the USA. -- Torbjorn Tannsjo
Abortion, however, is a big threshold issue for me because the dominant majority of people in my state are pro-choice, .. I ran as a pro-choice Democrat, and she fills Sandra Day O'Connor's shoes, and they are critical shoes. -- Dianne Feinstein
Just because something happens to be legal does not make it moral, ethical or right. Abortion is perhaps one of the most dramatic examples of a situation where something is legal, but is very much a sin against God. -- Al Barry
Don't confuse the evil of avoiding pregnancy by itself, with abortion. Abortion is not a theological problem, it is a human problem, it is a medical problem. You kill one person to save another, in the best case scenario. -- Pope Francis
Just because Congress passes a law and says it's all right to do a certain thing does not mean that it's all right to do it. Abortion is still just as wrong today as it was the first day of January, 1973. -- Shelton Smith
Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan, "Adoption, not Abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Abortion is abortion. Maybe you should have more protected sex? But if you get raped and get pregnant why would you keep that kid? I believe you should make your own choice - you're human. That's for you and God to deal with afterwards. -- Sean Price
Simple morality dictates that unless and until someone can prove the unborn human is not alive, we must give it the benefit of the doubt and assume it is (alive). And, thus, it should be entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. -- Ronald Reagan
How can anyone be against abortion but for the death penalty -- Loesje
I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty. -- Tim Kaine
In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman. -- Italo Calvino
Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions. -- Karl Kraus
In the realm of thought every person performs innumerable abortions each minute of the waking day -- Brendan Francis
The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it -- Margaret Sanger
The truth is that contraception saves lives, prevents unplanned pregnancies, improves outcomes for children and reduces the number of abortions. -- Ann McLane Kuster
The political Right likes to champion individual rights and individual liberty, but it has also worked to enforce morality in relation to abortion, gambling, and homosexuality. -- Dave Brat
The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue. -- Jim Wallis
A significant fraction of evangelical voters appear more likely to ignore the candidates' specific economic and foreign policy platforms in favor of concerns about gay marriage or abortion. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
We're always going to argue about abortion. It's a hard choice and it's controversial, and that's why I'm pro-choice, because I want people to make their own choices. -- Hillary Clinton
The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact. -- Julie Burchill
The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth. -- Robert Casey
We are failing to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . a dead weight of human waste . . .an ever-increasing spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all -- Margaret Sanger
The product, abortion, is skillfully marketed and sold to the woman at the crisis time in her life. She buys the product, finds it defective and wants to return it for a refund. But, it's too late -- Carol Everett
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
Some forms of motor neuron disease are genetically linked, but I have no indication that my kind is. No other member of my family has had it. But I would be in favour of abortion if there was a high risk. -- Stephen Hawking
If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics and devoted it to improving the lives of children who have been born into lives of poverty, violence, and neglect, they could make a world shine -- Michael J. Tucker
The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb. -- Robert Casey
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
The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia. -- Adam McKay
If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want -- Mother Teresa of Calcutta
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
If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does. -- Phil McGraw
Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman's right to an abortion, which I always thought was the core of 'Rosemary's Baby,' or the backlash against feminism which I always thought was the core to 'Stepford Wives.' -- Chuck Palahniuk
On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy. -- Nancy Keenan
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

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