quotations about abortion
Abortion is not merely a women's issue. An abortion is something that negatively affects the whole family -- the mother, the father and especially the unborn child.
MICAIAH BILGER
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"Man's Girlfriend is Threatening to Abort Their 9-Week-Old Baby", LifeNews, September 1, 2016
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I think abortion should remain legal, but it needs to be safe and rare. And I have spent many years now, as a private citizen, as first lady, and now as senator, trying to make it rare, trying to create the conditions where women had other choices. I have supported adoption, foster care. I helped to create the campaign against teenage pregnancy, which fulfilled our original goal 10 years ago of reducing teenage pregnancies by about a third. And I am committed to do even more.
HILLARY CLINTON
Democratic Compassion Forum at Messiah College, April 13, 2008
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There's a twisted perception that abortion fosters the empowerment of women. And then there's the barefaced reality that abortion hurts women. The former receives tiresome, exaggerated, and over-covered attention that portrays pro-life men as the culprits. The latter is real-life, heartbreaking, rarely catches the media's attention, and is opposed largely, by women.
CHELSEN VICARI
"Pro-Life Is Pro-Woman and Abortion Is Pro-Nobody", CBS News, February 4, 2016
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The entire basis of the pro-life movement is in failing to acknowledge the basic unknowability of others' point of view. The movement is fundamentally about imposing one's morality and definitions on others -- and marshaling the law in service of that imposition. To be pro-choice is to say: I can never ever walk in your shoes.
SARAH SELTZER
"BoJack Horseman Shows How an Abortion Plotline Can Create Tension and Conflict", Flavorwire, August 9, 2016
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Yet, this can never really be true that an abortion is a right. Our rights come from God and amongst them is the inherent right to life -- not the right to destroy it.
SAM BROWNBACK
attributed, "Brownback blasts Kansas court decisions on abortion rights", The Topeka Capital-Journal, January 23, 2017
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Abortion is a violent, substandard, and unacceptable answer to the problems it is proposed to solve.
KATE COUSINO
"An Irrational Faith in Abortion", Patheos, January 22, 2017
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It takes irrational faith of a peculiar sort to know what we do about embryology and yet draw the line of personhood at the arbitrary point of birth.
KATE COUSINO
"An Irrational Faith in Abortion", Patheos, January 22, 2017
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On every issue except abortion, those who stand up for social justice are considered by our society to be progressive. If you speak against abortion, however, you are no progressive; you are viewed as a "right-wing religious extremist" engaged in a "war on women's rights." The question of abortion, therefore, forces us to consider our motivations. When we advocate for social justice, are we truly fighting for justice, or are we simply seeking the affirmation of our peers?
MURRAY VASSER
"Why the social justice movement is silent on abortion", Live Action News, February 24, 2016
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As with the other restrictions, waiting periods were sold as a means of ensuring that a woman makes a well-informed decision about seeking abortion. But in practice they have done little except add extra cost and burden to the process, usurping a woman's ability to make her best medical decisions in private consultation with her doctor.
JORDAN SMITH
"Kentucky's New Fetal Pain Law, Like Most Abortion Restrictions, Is Based on Junk Science", The Intercept, January 22, 2017
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We know that a message many people hear in our country is that in order to be 'pro-woman,' you have to be pro-choice. I would offer that nothing could be further from the truth. I see that as rhetoric and I see that as false. Life is empowering for women. A woman's capacity to have children is an incredible thing, not something to be ashamed of. It doesn't mean that I am defined by that, but it doesn't mean I'm going to pretend it's not part of me. It's an incredible gift.
JEANNE MANCINI
"The March for Life's New Message: 'Pro-Life is Pro-Woman'", Cosmopolitan, January 26, 2016
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A woman doesn't make an abortion decision in a bubble. She typically enlists the insight and "wisdom" of others.... The next time you call a post-abortive woman a murderer, realize that is only part of her abortion story. Others share her abortion guilt and may also need healing.
SYDNA MASSÉ
"The Deadly Impact of Abortion Antagonists", Ramah's Voice, May 8, 2018
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In reality, attempts to stop abortion through restrictive laws--or by withholding family planning aid--can never eliminate abortion, because those methods do not eliminate women's need for abortion.
SNEHA BAROT
"The Global Gag Rule and Fights over Funding UNFPA: The Issues That Won't Go Away", Guttmacher Institute, June 2, 2015
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Abortion is always wrong. Period. Even if it were healthier for women to abort than give birth. Even if most women reported increased levels of happiness after abortions. Even if women choose to have abortions for other reasons besides the monetary cost of raising a child. Abortion always kills someone (both scientifically and philosophically) -- and that is why it is wrong.
PRO-LIFE GIRL
"Five things I think the pro-life movement needs to change", Diary of a Pro-life Girl, May 11, 2013
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Safe abortion is an essential health service for women. Would anyone today deliberately withhold effective HIV treatment or safe contraception from people who need them? Why, then, is it still acceptable that safe abortion is being withheld from so many women and girls with unwanted pregnancies?
MARGE BERER
"Abortion Groups Call on UN to Declare an Official International Safe Abortion Day", CNSNews, August 29, 2016
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We are not unaware of the deep and proper concern and interest that a devoted and protective husband has in his wife's pregnancy and in the growth and development of the fetus she is carrying. Neither has this Court failed to appreciate the importance of the marital relationship in our society. Moreover, we recognize that the decision whether to undergo or to forego an abortion may have profound effects on the future of any marriage, effects that are both physical and mental, and possibly deleterious. Notwithstanding these factors, we cannot hold that the State has the constitutional authority to give the spouse unilaterally the ability to prohibit the wife from terminating her pregnancy, when the State itself lacks that right.
HARRY BLACKMUN
Planned Parenthood of Missouri v. Danforth, 1976
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The hard part about talking about it in general is everyone wants it to be just one thing: "abortion is good," "abortion is bad," or whatever. We really wanted to talk about the fact that, of course, as a group, we support a woman's right to choose, but also that every person is gonna have their own experience.
JOANNA CALO
"BoJack Horseman Shows How an Abortion Plotline Can Create Tension and Conflict", Flavorwire, August 9, 2016
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The extreme public controversies around abortion in America create the impression that a schism exists between the pro-choice movement and communities of faith: one side is denounced as sinful, the other written off as fanatics. Those of us who count ourselves as both religious and pro-choice know this kind of oversimplification is dangerous, because it ignores the religious foundations for affirming abortion as a morally justifiable decision.
DEBRA W. HAFFNER
"The moral case for access to abortion", The Hill, February 19, 2016
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But some of the liberties the Supreme Court has found to be protected by that word--liberty--nobody thought constituted a liberty when the 14th Amendment was adopted. Abortion? It was criminal in all the states.
ANTONIN SCALIA
speech at the University of Richmond in Virginia, November 19, 2010
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When a nation sacrifices innocent children in abortion or infanticide, that is a sacrifice to demons, it's like food for demons.... that act of the shedding of innocent blood, the most innocent among us, it empowers satanic forces, it energizes satanic forces, it gives them the legal right to be at work in our culture, it energizes them, it empowers them, it gives them legal ground, it gives them permission to operate. So every time an abortion is performed in the United States of America, a jolt of power is given to Satan and to satanic forces.
BRYAN FISCHER
"Bryan Fischer Says That Every Abortion Is 'Like Food For Demons'", Right Wing Watch, February 24, 2016
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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
The Ayn Rand Lexicon
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