quotations about abortion
If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwanted government intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision to bear or beget a child.
WILLIAM BRENNAN
attributed, Privacy: A Vanishing Value?
A person is a person no matter how small.
DR. SEUSS
Horton Hears a Who
I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.
RONALD REAGAN
New York Times, Sep. 22, 1980
No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.
MARGARET SANGER
Woman and the New Race
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
Policy Review, Summer 1991
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.... He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
TERTULLIAN
attributed, The Bible on Abortion
What is this ban on abortion? It is a survival of the veiled face, of the barred window and the locked door, burning, branding, mutilation, stoning, of all the grip of ownership and superstition come down on woman, thousands of years ago.
STELLA BROWNE
attributed, The Sexual Dynamics of History
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
FLORYNCE R. KENNEDY
Ms., March 1973
Somebody who should have been born is gone.
ANNE SEXTON
"The Abortion"
Abortion ... interferes with God's plan--a plan He willed before He created the universe. Abortion is in violation of God-given life.
RICHARD C. HALVERSON
attributed, Quotes Worth Repeating
I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion. 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 in any regard.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.
MOTHER TERESA
attributed, Everybody for Everybody
I am pro-choice, but I find that abortion is a failure of the feminist establishment. With every kind of birth control available in the world, abortion is not something to be proud of. If you need an abortion, you've failed.
TAMMY BRUCE
speech at Columbia University, Apr. 6, 2005
Some people say abortion is killing a baby -- it's not. It's stopping a baby from happening. It's like Back to the Future and abortion is a DeLorean.
MICHELLE WOLF
The Break, July 8, 2018
Abortion is legal because babies can't vote.
JOSEPH BONKOWSKI
Quote Me
Abortion should not only be safe and legal, it should be rare.
BILL CLINTON
speech at DNC, Aug. 29, 1996
When you peel back the layers of the anti-choice motivation, it always comes back to two things: What is the nature and purpose of human sexuality? And second, what is the role of women in the world? Sex and the role of women are inextricably linked, because if you can separate sex from procreation, you have given women the ability to participate in society on an equal basis with men.
GLORIA FELDT
attributed, Huffington Post
Any woman who has felt a baby stir inside her [and] any man who has seen the tiny heart pulsing on an ultrasound screen, knows that abortion is about ending a life.
KAREN KISSANE
attributed, The Abortion Myth
I had an abortion. I am simply one of millions of women who have exercised this constitutionally protected right, and according to recent data, I am part of the 95 percent of women who do not regret their choice.
AMY BRENNEMAN
"Amy Brenneman: Why I'm Sharing My Abortion Story", Cosmopolitan, February 29, 2016
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.
NANCY REAGAN