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I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well.
Author:
William Weld
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The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.
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Jim Wallis
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I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again.
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Jesse Ventura
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The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
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Mother Teresa
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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.
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Bart Stupak
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We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.
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Bart Stupak
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We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out.
Author:
Bart Stupak
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No woman has an abortion for fun.
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Elizabeth Smith
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If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies.
Author:
Louise Slaughter
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Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for abortion.
Author:
Louise Slaughter
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Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.
Author:
Brooke Shields
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I could never, ever have an abortion.
Author:
Brooke Shields
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I personally am opposed to abortion, but I will not judge anybody else's right in that regard because I am not a woman and I could never face the actual reality of it.
Author:
Martin Sheen
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If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privacy, which ends up becoming ultimately the right to abortion.
Author:
Jay Sekulow
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There is a strong correlation between belief in evolution and liberal views on government control, pornography, prayer in schools, abortion, gun control, economic freedom, and even animal rights.
Author:
Phyllis Schlafly
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If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.
Author:
Antonin Scalia
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While the political debate over abortion will continue for a very long time, the federal government can and should be doing more to support programs and services that provide women with better options.
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Tim Ryan
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Because I believe that abortion is murder, I also believe that force is justified in an attempt to stop it.
Author:
Eric Rudolph
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A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.
Author:
Robert Reich
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
Author:
Nancy Reagan
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I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.
Author:
Frederick Pollock
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Under Obama, our federal tax dollars can now be used to fund abortion all over the world. With the stroke of a pen, abortion essentially became a U.S. foreign export.
Author:
Rick Perry
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Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn't get pregnant.
Author:
Kathleen Parker
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My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm - as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.
Author:
Camille Paglia
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The abortion cases produced an enormous amount of mail to my chambers, vastly more than to the other chambers, I am sure. I sometimes thought there wasn't a woman in the United States who didn't write me a letter on one side or the other of that issue.
Author:
Sandra O'Connor
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Abortion is either OK or it's not.
Author:
Peggy Noonan
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The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug.
Author:
Patty Murray
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The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion.
Author:
Robin Morgan
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If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.
Author:
Phil McGraw
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There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.
Author:
Norma McCorvey
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Patients would come in and say, Well, my baby is going to have a cleft palate. I'm going like, that's not a reason. And the doctor would do the abortion.
Author:
Norma McCorvey
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It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference.
Author:
Norma McCorvey
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I really didn't know there was two sides to the abortion issue.
Author:
Norma McCorvey
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I don't think there is a good reason for an abortion, but Dr. Jasper made me really realize it was just a racket. He was just doing it for the money. He didn't care about the women.
Author:
Norma McCorvey
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One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice.
Author:
William Leahy
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The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
Author:
Christopher Lasch
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It only takes five people in black robes to determine such crucial issues for our country as abortion, pornography, same-sex 'marriage,' and religious liberties.
Author:
Richard Land
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Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.
Author:
Nicholas Kristof
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I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.
Author:
Alan Keyes
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If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
Author:
Florynce Kennedy
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The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.
Author:
Leon Kass
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I think abortion is murder.
Author:
Victoria Jackson
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That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.
Author:
Jesse Helms
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I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.
Author:
Stephen Harper
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But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion.
Author:
Stephen Harper
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My own views on abortion, I'm not on either pole of that and neither of the interest groups on either end of this issue would probably be comfortable with my views.
Author:
Stephen Harper
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The papers reveal that in several key abortion cases, justices were keenly interested in the perceived public reaction to their rulings - indicating that courts can be influenced by public sentiment.
Author:
Lee Greenwood
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In addition, the bill passed by the House requires a person performing an abortion on a minor from a different state to notify one parent in the home state.
Author:
Virgil Goode
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Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.
Author:
Ruth Ginsburg
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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
Author:
Ruth Ginsberg
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I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.
Author:
Stanley Fish
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I'm against abortion.
Author:
Charles Evers
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Expanding eligibility of family planning services to low-income women will maximize cost-savings to both federal and state governments, reduce the disparities in access to family planning services for low-income women, and decrease the incidence of abortion in the U.S.
Author:
Rosa DeLauro
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The issue is not abortion. The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do.
Author:
Howard Dean
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The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
Author:
Jacques Cousteau
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You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.
Author:
Hillary Clinton
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Abortion is a question of choice.
Author:
Robert Casey
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The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb.
Author:
Robert Casey
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If our country is to reach a workable solution to the abortion issue, the Democratic party must be open to and tolerant of opposing views.
Author:
Robert Casey
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In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion.
Author:
Robert Casey
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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.
Author:
Robert Casey
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Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.
Author:
Robert Casey
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I am fairly certain that my abortion position hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, where turnout is relatively low, liberal voters turn out in disproportionately large numbers and thus exercise a disproportionate influence on the outcome.
Author:
Robert Casey
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The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.
Author:
Robert Casey
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I am convinced that this approach, a mainstream Democratic approach, commands the strong support of the American people, and presents a sharp and compassionate contrast to the Republican abortion position which offers no real hope or commitment to mother or child.
Author:
Robert Casey
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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.
Author:
Robert Casey
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To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license.
Author:
Robert Casey
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We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty.
Author:
Robert Casey
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A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe.
Author:
Robert Casey
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I come to urge my party to be open to debate and discussion; to move away from a lock-step litmus test which advocates abortion on demand in an effort to reach a broader national consensus.
Author:
Robert Casey
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Abortion on demand, throughout the full nine months of a pregnancy, for virtually any reason, became public policy in the United States of America. No other developed democracy had, or has, such a permissive abortion regime.
Author:
Robert Casey
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Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot be ignored.
Author:
Robert Casey
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By rejecting abortion-on-demand, we can move our party back to the mainstream.
Author:
Robert Casey
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For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts.
Author:
Robert Casey
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Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.
Author:
Robert Casey
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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.
Author:
James Carville
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It's all about the fungibility and money. If Planned Parenthood accesses hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money and they use that for other purposes, then they can use other dollars to fund abortion.
Author:
Eric Cantor
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I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion.
Author:
Tony Campolo
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In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.
Author:
Tony Campolo
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The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the evangelical community these days. I'm sure that these hot buttons will be pushed, time and time again.
Author:
Tony Campolo
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In addition the bill would expand an existing law "conscience clause" that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures.
Author:
Ken Calvert
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The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.
Author:
Ken Calvert
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I was thrown into the Parliament right away. From 1976 to 1978 I was concerned with the abortion issue, later on with that of divorce.
Author:
Emma Bonino
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However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.
Author:
Tony Blair
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Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.
Author:
Pope Benedict XVI
