Quotes About Abortion

Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of the adoptive parents.

In 1985, I was living with my sister in Virginia, and since I was still in high school, I worked at McDonald's to save money to get an abortion. It sounds really terrible, but it was the best decision I ever made. It was the first time I took responsibility for my actions. I messed up, had sex without contraception, and got pregnant at 15.

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.

When I worked for Planned Parenthood, we had a specific protocol that we had to follow when picking up our abortion doctor. Looking back, I realize how crazy this was, but at the time, I felt like I was a part of some super secret high-level security task force.

The only thing that will keep an abortion worker in the industry longer is a pro-lifer who condemns them.

'And Then There Were None' is a network of former abortion clinic workers who are stepping forward to tell our stories about what really happens behind the closed doors of Planned Parenthood and abortion facilities across America. We are stepping forward because our voices deserve to be heard, and America deserves to know the truth.

The abortion facility in Texas where I worked for eight years closed after enough workers like me left. They closed because I finally spoke out against the terrible things I saw, the deceit I participated in, and the unsanitary practices common to many abortion facilities.

The abortion industry and their workers are under unique pressure and constantly in the spotlight because abortion is so controversial, and people on both sides are considerably passionate. This isn't a typical nine-to-five job. It's on a whole other level of intensity.

The testimony of former abortion workers can help persuade lawmakers to create fair laws that protect women from dirty abortion facilities.

I left Planned Parenthood in 2009 and have since started an organization called And There Were None, which helps abortion workers leave their jobs and find new ones.

When former abortion workers speak out in public about what they did in their clinics, what they saw happening, and the disrespect consistently shown women, hearts and mind change, and abortion facilities close.

After working in a prominent position at a Planned Parenthood facility in Central Texas for over eight years, I can say that women deserve better than Planned Parenthood and that their funding should be reallocated to Federally Qualified Health Centers.

All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.

In America, we are selling fetal tissue to be used in: the manufacture of cosmetics as well as for medical research.

May our zeal against abortion be matched by our zeal for adoption.

So the time line of when we consider a fetus 'human' is arbitrary after conception.

Enforced sterilization and unavailable abortions are tools of oppression against Black women, as is rape.

In the middle of the conversation, I open a third ale. I cup my hand over the mouthpiece so they don't hear the tab of the ale being popped. It dawns on me that this is a slightly contrary action. Like stopping into Baby Gap before having an abortion.

Abortion is a moral right—which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved.

CUNNINGHAM: Mother Teresa, if abortion is so terrible, then how come I'm not in Hell? MOTHER TERESA: I don't know. Did anybody tell you you weren't? CUNNINGHAM: Must be nice to have all the answers.

CUNNINGHAM: Mother Teresa, if abortion is so terrible, then how come I'm not in Hell? MOTHER TERESA: I don't know. Did anybody tell you you weren't? CUNNINGHAM: Must be nice to have all the answers. MOTHER TERESA: Must be hard to have only questions.

Senator John Kyle claiming that over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion. Stephen Colbert: Over 90 percent, that is unbelievable...in that it is not true. Only 3 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion. Kyle just rounded it up to the nearest 90.

abortion had been outlawed throughout the United States, starting in Connecticut in 1821, in California in 1872, and in all states by 1880

the majority of any abortion provider's patients were mothers already with several children.