Abortion Quotes
Quotes reflecting differing stated views.
This page brings together quotes in which speakers state their own position on abortion, a subject where opinions vary widely and firmly. The lines here are presented as individual viewpoints rather than as any single agreed conclusion, spanning legal notification rules to personal moral framing.
A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.
Quite frankly, I would prefer to have a non-Christian like Mitt Romney who at least pretends to embrace biblical principles over a professing Christian like Barack Obama who embraces very unbiblical positions on abortion.
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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.
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.
A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust.
Abortion on demand has, in my judgment, contributed significantly to an environment in our country in which life has become very cheap.
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.
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.
In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion.
For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts.
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.
A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe.
Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot be ignored.
To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license.
The abortion issue has intersected with my public life from the very beginning.
Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his hosts, to antiabortion rallies on the Mall.
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.
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Because the topic is contested, expect a mix of certainty and ambivalence across the entries. Readers interested in related discussion may also want the Health quotes page.
