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
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. – Norma McCorvey
I won’t use abortion as a litmus test with a pro-choice individual. Someone that is an activist on the abortion issue, I think, goes outside the pale, and I cannot support an activist on the abortion issue. – Ken Buck
After ‘Roe v. Wade’ – when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 – I thought the national conversation about abortion and birth control would be over. It was not. – Karen DeCrow
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. – Lee Greenwood
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. – Jay Alan Sekulow
Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog. – Katha Pollitt
In addition the bill would expand an existing law ‘conscience clause’ that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures. – Ken Calvert
In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman. – Leon Kass
Abortion opponents know full well that the public would not abide putting women in prison en masse. Politically, it’s more palatable to portray them as irrational, ignorant, and childlike, perhaps even temporarily insane. – Katha Pollitt
If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies. – Louise Slaughter
The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion. – Ken Calvert
Everybody goes to clinics, to hospitals, to doctors, and so on. Some people go to Planned Parenthood. But you don’t have to go to Planned Parenthood to get your cholesterol or your blood pressure checked. If you want an abortion, you go to Planned Parenthood, and that’s well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does. – Jon Kyl
I am opposed to abortion on demand, and I am opposed to the 1967 Act in Britain being transferred to the north. – Martin McGuinness
That said, I can’t emphasise enough – and I hope you print this – that I absolutely don’t judge anybody at all who has an abortion, nor do I think they are murderers, nor do I think they are baby killers. – Louise Mensch
A significant fraction of evangelical voters appear more likely to ignore the candidates’ specific economic and foreign policy platforms in favor of concerns about gay marriage or abortion. – Lawrence M. Krauss
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. – Rick Perry
The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control. – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion. – Oriana Fallaci
To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license. – Robert Casey
For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts. – Robert Casey
I am open and will continue to be open to ways to limit abortion. What I am not open to is to removing the right. – Rudy Giuliani
A lot of attention has been going to social values – abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues – but economic values are equally important. – Robert Reich
The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug. – Patty Murray
Abortion on demand has, in my judgment, contributed significantly to an environment in our country in which life has become very cheap. – Robert Casey
I am pro-choice, but I don’t consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life – there’s no way that having an abortion, ever, is an easy decision, and it more often errs on the side of absolutely wrenching, not to mention physically debilitating. – Rachel Sklar