Quotes About Abortion

El hecho de que la forma en la que yo viví la experiencia del aborto, la clandestinidad, forme parte del pasado no me parece un motivo válido para que se siga ocultando.

Personne ne se demandait combien de temps ça durerait, l'interdiction d'avorter et de vivre ensemble sans se marier. Les signes de changements collectifs ne sont pas perceptibles dans la particularité des vies, sauf peut-être dans le dégoût et la fatigue qui font penser secrètement "rien ne changera donc jamais" à des milliers d'individus en même temps.

Lire dans un roman le récit d'un avortement me plonge dans un saisissement sans images ni pensées, comme si les mots se changeaient instantanément en sensation violente. De la même façon, entendre par hasard La javanaise, J'ai la mémoire qui flanche, n'importe quelle chanson qui m'a accompagnée durant cette période, me bouleverse.

Si tuviera que representar en un cuadro aquel acontecimiento de mi vida, pintaría una mesita de formica pegada a la pared y, encima de ella, una palangana esmaltada en la que flota una sonda roja. Ligeramente a la derecha se encuentra un cepillo de pelo. No creo que exista un solo Taller de la abortera en ningún museo del mundo.)

Et, comme d'habitude, il était impossible de déterminer si l'avortement était interdit parce que c'était mal, ou si c'était mal parce que c'était interdit. On jugeait par rapport à la loi, on ne jugeait pas la loi.

Girls who abort and unwed mothers from working-class Rouen were handed the same treatment.

Au Japon, on appelle les embryons avortés « mizuko », les enfants de l'eau.

Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to choose an abortion was a privacy right protected by our Constitution.

If the American people - pro-choice and pro-life - cannot agree with the basic concept that the life of a baby born alive following a botched abortion should be protected, then when do the rights of these babies begin?

The national Democratic Party has embraced abortion on demand. I believe this position is wrong in principle and out of the mainstream of our party's historic commitment to protecting the powerless.

While I am passionately committed to protecting abortion access, I do not view it as a stand-alone issue.

Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.

So much for the fruits of love. Love? What's love? Sex, ah, that's another thing. Love has babies: sex has abortions.

No. No. It couldn't be any baby. She was not going to have something waiting in her to make her deader, she was not.

I generally favor permissive abortion laws.

In America, abortionist believe that a fetus and an embryo are not a life.

ISIS may be a perversion of Islam, but Islamic it is, just as Christian beliefs about the sanctity of the unborn child explain why some Christian fundamentalists attack abortion clinics and doctors.

Planned Parenthood claims to offer a wide variety of services, but they actually fall short in many areas.

China's one-child policy punishes families for having 'out-of-plan' children, resulting in sex-selective abortion and tens of millions of 'missing girls' as well as forced abortion and sterilization campaigns.

As governor of New Mexico, I would have - I signed a bill banning late term abortion. I've always favored parental notification. I've always favored counseling. I've always favored the notion of no public funds used for abortion.

Many progressives understand Scalia, and other conservative judges, in crassly political terms - as opponents of affirmative action, abortion, gun control, and campaign finance legislation. But what Scalia cared most about was clear, predictable rules, laid down in advance.

We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life--the unborn--without diminishing the value of all human life.

I know this issue is very controversial. But unless and until it can be proven that an unborn child is not a human being, can we justify assuming without proof that it isn't? No one has yet offered such proof; indeed, all the evidence is to the contrary. We should rise above bitterness and reproach, and if Americans could come together in a spirit of understanding and helping, then we could find positive solutions to the tragedy of abortion.

America will never be whole as long as the right to life granted by our Creator is denied to the unborn.