In my world, you don't get to call yourself "pro-life" and be against common-sense gun control. . . . You don't get to call yourself "pro-life" and want to shut down the Environmental Protection Agency. . . . You don't get to call yourself "pro-life" and oppose programs like Head Start that provide basic education, health, and nutrition for the most disadvantaged children. . . . The term "pro-life" should be a shorthand for respect for the sanctity of life. But I will not let that label apply to people for whom sanctity for life begins at conception and ends at birth. —Thomas L. Friedman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How come when it's us, it's an abortion, and when it's a chicken, it's an omelet? —George Carlin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I cannot understand anti-abortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species we've fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don't believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain, and life-long grinding poverty shows us that . . . we've made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred. —Caitlin Moran More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A woman who has [an abortion] is almost always in a desperate situation, and her decision is not made lightly. She deserves Christian compassion, not . . . self-righteous scorn. —Jean Peterman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Being pro-choice is not being pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is trusting the individual to make the right decision for herself and her family, and not entrusting that decision to anyone wearing the authority of government. —Hillary Rodham Clinton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born. —Ronald Reagan More about this quote Tags: politics life abortion irony Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Abortion opponents love little babies as long as they are in somebody else's uterus. —Joycelyn Elders More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever. I know I didn't do the wrong thing. But I don't feel like I did the right thing, either. —Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The product, abortion, is skillfully marketed and sold to the woman at the crisis time in her life. She buys the product, finds it defective, and wants to return it for a refund. But it's too late. —Carol Everett More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice-cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg. —Frederica Mathewes-Green More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I certainly supported a woman's right to choose, but to my mind the time to choose was before, not after the fact. —Ann B. Ross, Miss Julia Throws a Wedding More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. —Said to Florynce Kennedy and Gloria Steinem by a female taxi driver in Boston More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The Vatican won't prosecute pedophile priests, but I decide I'm not ready for motherhood and it's condemnation for me? —Sonya Renee Taylor More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State. —Edward Abbey More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are not here to advocate abortion. We do not ask this Court to rule that abortion is good or desirable in any particular situation. We are here to advocate that the decision as to whether or not a particular woman will continue to carry or will terminate a pregnancy is a decision that should be made by that individual. —Sarah Weddington, lead prosecuting attorney in Roe v. Wade, 1972 More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email