Quotes on Abortion

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

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

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

I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion.

Author: Tony Campolo

By rejecting abortion-on-demand, we can move our party back to the mainstream.

Author: Robert Casey

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

A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe.

Author: Robert Casey

To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license.

Author: Robert Casey

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

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

In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion.

Author: Robert Casey

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

Abortion is a question of choice.

Author: Robert Casey

The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.

Author: Jacques Cousteau

I'm against abortion.

Author: Charles Evers

I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.

Author: Stanley Fish

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

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

But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion.

Author: Stephen Harper

I think abortion is murder.

Author: Victoria Jackson

The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.

Author: Leon Kass

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

Author: Norma McCorvey

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

There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.

Author: Norma McCorvey

Abortion is either OK or it's not.

Author: Peggy Noonan

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

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

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

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

Because I believe that abortion is murder, I also believe that force is justified in an attempt to stop it.

Author: Eric Rudolph

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

I could never, ever have an abortion.

Author: Brooke Shields

If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies.

Author: Louise Slaughter

No woman has an abortion for fun.

Author: Elizabeth Smith

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

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