Abortion Quotes

The emphasis must not be on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg)
Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words abortion or tax cuts pass their lips. View quote
Ann Coulter
ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else. View quote
Phyllis Schlafly
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. View quote
Julie Burchill
The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum. View quote
Christopher Lasch
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. View quote
Florynce Kennedy
If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies. View quote
Louise Slaughter
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. View quote
Samuel Alito
You have options when it comes to abortion now. It's not like 1955 when you just had to kick her down a staircase and hope for the best... you feed her a tapeworm and hope it takes a left at the Y. View quote
Doug Stanhope
For example, you can go on all the pro-life chat rooms and say you're an outraged right-wing voter and that you know that George Bush drove an ex-girlfriend to an abortion clinic and paid for her to get an abortion.Then you go to an anti-immigration website chat room and ask, "What's all this about George Bush proposing amnesty for illegal aliens?" View quote
Moby
The reason Social Security is in big trouble is we don't have enough workers to support the retirees. Well, a third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion, because one in three pregnancies end in abortion. (Rick Santorum)
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. View quote
Phil McGraw
This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life. View quote
Kathleen Turner
Liberals hate America, they hate flag-wavers, they hate abortion opponents, they hate all religions except Islam, post 9/11. Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do. They don't have the energy. If they had that much energy, they'd have indoor plumbing by now. View quote
Ann Coulter
It is a noteworthy fact that not one of the women to whom I have spoken so far believes in abortion as a practice; but it is principle for which they are standing. They also believe that the complete abolition of the abortion law will shortly do away with abortions, as nothing else will. View quote
Margaret Sanger
While there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in America each year are a disgrace to civilization. View quote
Margaret Sanger
It is apparent that nothing short of contraceptives can put an end to the horrors of abortion and infanticide. View quote
Margaret Sanger
Usually this desire [for family limitation] has been laid to economic pressure It has asserted itself among the rich and among the poor, among the intelligent and the unintelligent. It has been manifested in such horrors as infanticide, child abandonment and abortion. View quote
Margaret Sanger
Politicians argue for abortion largely because they do not want to spend the necessary money to feed, clothe and educate more people... There are those who argue that the right to privacy is of higher order than the right to life. I do not share that view... That was the premise of slavery. You could not protest the existence or treatment of slaves on the plantation because that was private and therefore outside of your right to concerned. View quote
Jesse Jackson
I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again. View quote
Jesse Ventura
You know how to stop abortion? Require that each one occur with a gun. (Rush Limbaugh)
You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty. View quote
N.T. Wright
The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother's convenience. View quote
Tony Abbott
I want to make it clear that I do not judge or condemn any woman who has had an abortion, but every abortion is a tragedy and up to 100,000 abortions a year is this generation's legacy of unutterable shame. View quote
Tony Abbott
All my friends are always telling me how hard it is to have kids. 'Oh, David, it's so hard.' That's not hard. I'll tell you what hard is. Try talking your girlfriend into her third consecutive abortion. Yeah, that's hard, that takes finesse. You're just inconvenienced. View quote
David Cross