Abortion Quotes - page 3

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)
Patients would come in and say, Well, my baby is going to have a cleft palate. I'm going like, that's not a reason. And the doctor would do the abortion. View quote
Norma McCorvey
There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion. View quote
Norma McCorvey
It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference. View quote
Norma McCorvey
I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian. View quote
Neko Case
It just so happens that people aren't doing comedy about abortion or cannibalism or waterboarding. And that to me doesn't necessarily mean that there aren't aspects of those subjects that are funny, it just means that people are too uptight. View quote
Rob McElhenney
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. View quote
Robert Casey
A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe. View quote
Robert Casey
Abortion is the ultimate violence. View quote
Robert Casey
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. View quote
Robert Casey
A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust. (Robert Casey)
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. View quote
Robert Casey
A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important. View quote
Robert Reich
Expanding eligibility of family planning services to low-income women will maximize cost-savings to both federal and state governments, reduce the disparities in access to family planning services for low-income women, and decrease the incidence of abortion in the U.S. View quote
Rosa DeLauro
I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty. View quote
Tim Kaine
While the political debate over abortion will continue for a very long time, the federal government can and should be doing more to support programs and services that provide women with better options. View quote
Tim Ryan
I think abortion is murder. View quote
Victoria Jackson
In addition, the bill passed by the House requires a person performing an abortion on a minor from a different state to notify one parent in the home state. View quote
Virgil Goode
One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice. View quote
William P. Leahy
The male is a biological accident: the y(male) gene is an incomplete x(female) gene, that is, has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion.... To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples. View quote
Valerie Solanas
[L]egal challenges to undue restrictions on abortion procedures do not seek to vindicate some generalized notion of privacy; rather, they center on a woman's autonomy to determine her life's course, and thus to enjoy equal citizenship stature. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg)
Abortion prohibition by the State, however, controls women and denies them full autonomy and full equality with men. That was the idea I tried to express in the lecture to which you referred. View quote
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The Constitution contains no right to abortion. It is not to be found in the longstanding traditions of our society, nor can it be logically deduced from the text of the Constitution - not, that is, without volunteering a judicial answer to the nonjusticiable question of when human life begins. Leaving this matter to the political process is not only legally correct, it is pragmatically so. That alone - and not lawyerly dissection of federal judicial precedents - can produce compromises satisfying a sufficient mass of the electorate that this deeply felt issue will cease distorting the remainder of our democratic process. The Court should end its disruptive intrusion into this field as soon as possible. View quote
Antonin Scalia
My difficulty with Roe v. Wade is a legal rather than a moral one. I do not believe – and no one believed for 200 years – that the Constitution contains a right to abortion. And if a state were to permit abortion on demand, I would and could in good conscience vote against an attempt to invalidate that law, for the same reason that I vote against invalidation of laws that contradict Roe v. Wade; namely, simply because the Constitution gives the federal government and, hence, me no power over the matter. View quote
Antonin Scalia
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. View quote
Antonin Scalia