Quotes About Abortion

I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no way that having an abortion, ever, is an easy decision, and it more often errs on the side of absolutely wrenching, not to mention physically debilitating.

I really didn't know there was two sides to the abortion issue.

Abortion is a searing and divisive public policy issue precisely because two significant sets of rights are in conflict, and no matter which set of laws it enacts, society must choose between those rights.

It? You mean preserving a zygote or blastula or whatever? That's their moral obligation? Not their obligation to a living, breathing woman who just got raped?

Turns out a woman choosing adoption, even a woman behind bars, gets a lot more support than a woman who needs an abortion or who plans on keeping her baby.

You know what else is my constitutional right? To get an abortion. You don't get to choose what rights belong to me.

You don't know what narrow lives girls have, how few real adventures there are for them; misadventures, yes, like abortions and little men following them in subways, but seldom anything like seeing ships at night.

Today our news media is bombarded by bare-chested "feminists" yowling in the streets proclaiming their rights to murder their children in their wombs, their rights to have intimate relations with each other, and oddly enough, that they have "equal rights and dignity with men." Notice, too, if we watch the decline of morals in our society, the acceptance of public nudity and immodesty begin to escalate.

The abortion industry is interested in nothing but the bottom line.

Science can and should inform debate about abortion and the law. But science does not resolve questions of moral value and moral choice.

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

Today an educated, civilized society is turning its face while thousands of unborn babies are being killed. God Himself, if not history, will judge this greater holocaust.

Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.

I don't think the objective of an abortion clinic is to try to talk women out of having the procedure. That obviously would not be positive for their bottom line.

human rights" cannot serve as a stable, shared basis for morality in a society riven by fundamental disagreement about what "human" means, as is apparent from the abortion debate.

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

The Catholic Church's teachings are authoritative. There is a moral absolute on abortion - that it is wrong.

It is of great concern that the fabric of African life, its very source of hope and stability, is threatened by divorce, abortion, prostitution, human trafficking, and a contraception mentality.

Why do evangelicals support Trump? It could be because he amplified his religious messaging on the campaign trail by saying that women who get abortions should be punished and that he's not in favor of same sex marriage.

I am opposed to abortion on demand, and I am opposed to the 1967 Act in Britain being transferred to the north.

God's truth is this: abortion is murder.

The trouble with this country," he said, "is that the women have no guts.They'd rather slink off and have a dangerous, illegal operation performed than change the laws. The legislators are all men, and men don't bear babies; they can afford to be moralistic.

One reason abortion remained illegal was because it was so safe.

To raise abortion with Steve Forbes seems about as natural as telling your grandmother that you got laid last Saturday night.