quotations about abortion
Regardless of your view on abortion, there is absolutely no reason to force those who believe that abortion is murder to fund the abortion.
JAY SEKULOW
"Religious Americans who believe abortion is murder shouldn't be forced to fund it", Post Bulletin, January 23, 2017
A woman doesn't make an abortion decision in a bubble. She typically enlists the insight and "wisdom" of others.... The next time you call a post-abortive woman a murderer, realize that is only part of her abortion story. Others share her abortion guilt and may also need healing.
SYDNA MASSÉ
"The Deadly Impact of Abortion Antagonists", Ramah's Voice, May 8, 2018
I've brought two lives into this world. Knowing now what it entails to be a mom--from pregnancy, labor, and delivery to meeting the endless demands of other human beings--I believe even more fiercely in abortion on demand and without apology.... Everyone deserves to enter parenthood willingly, and every child deserves a parent who is willing to bear the responsibilities of this lifelong commitment. Children should be wanted and cherished, not forced into this world as punishment for their parents engaging in sex.
MAUREEN SHAW
"Becoming a Mother Made Me Even More Pro-Choice", Rewire, May 2, 2016
Feminazis have adopted abortion as a kind of sacrament for their religion/politics of alienation and bitterness.
RUSH LIMBAUGH
The Way Things Ought to Be
I am pro-choice because those who attack abortion rights don't plan on stopping there -- they're also going after contraception, science and even sex itself.
JILL FILIPOVIC
"Blogging for Choice: Part 2", Feministe, January 22, 2007
Where abortion is permitted on broad legal grounds, it is generally much safer than where it is highly restricted.
SNEHA BAROT
"The Global Gag Rule and Fights over Funding UNFPA: The Issues That Won't Go Away", Guttmacher Institute, June 2, 2015
When a nation sacrifices innocent children in abortion or infanticide, that is a sacrifice to demons, it's like food for demons.... that act of the shedding of innocent blood, the most innocent among us, it empowers satanic forces, it energizes satanic forces, it gives them the legal right to be at work in our culture, it energizes them, it empowers them, it gives them legal ground, it gives them permission to operate. So every time an abortion is performed in the United States of America, a jolt of power is given to Satan and to satanic forces.
BRYAN FISCHER
"Bryan Fischer Says That Every Abortion Is 'Like Food For Demons'", Right Wing Watch, February 24, 2016
The mortality rate for first trimester abortion is less than 1 per 100,000 procedures, for example, compared to nearly 9 deaths per 100,000 live births.
JORDAN SMITH
"Kentucky's New Fetal Pain Law, Like Most Abortion Restrictions, Is Based on Junk Science", The Intercept, January 22, 2017
The plain truth, the bitter truth for the Pro-Life side , is that abortion is now embedded in the culture.
DAVE NEESE
"The pro-abortion crowd is winning the fight", The Mercury, February 17, 2016
What people don't realize is that the early feminists were pro-life; the suffragists who gave women the right to vote were pro-life. The pro-life women's movement is the authentic women's movement of the 21st century.
SUE ELLEN BROWDER
"She Was a Pro-Abortion Columnist for Cosmo, But Something Made Her Pro-Life", Life News, January 22, 2016
In reality, attempts to stop abortion through restrictive laws--or by withholding family planning aid--can never eliminate abortion, because those methods do not eliminate women's need for abortion.
SNEHA BAROT
"The Global Gag Rule and Fights over Funding UNFPA: The Issues That Won't Go Away", Guttmacher Institute, June 2, 2015
The extreme public controversies around abortion in America create the impression that a schism exists between the pro-choice movement and communities of faith: one side is denounced as sinful, the other written off as fanatics. Those of us who count ourselves as both religious and pro-choice know this kind of oversimplification is dangerous, because it ignores the religious foundations for affirming abortion as a morally justifiable decision.
DEBRA W. HAFFNER
"The moral case for access to abortion", The Hill, February 19, 2016
Right-to-Life folks, cover your ears if you don't want to hear bad news. Abortion is winning. Not just winning -- kicking butt. What's more, it's likely to go on doing so. Yes, there are polls showing that people have qualms about "the procedure." And surveys showing a slight drop in abortions over the years. But the fact of roughly 1 million abortions annually is the equivalent to a drubbing of Pro-Life by Pro-Choice. Those are blow-out numbers.
DAVE NEESE
"The pro-abortion crowd is winning the fight", The Mercury, February 17, 2016
Religious support for abortion rights is not a recent development. Clergy were a driving force in the movement to legalize abortion in the 1960s, and even conservative denominations like the Southern Baptist Convention supported legislation allowing abortion under some circumstances in the years before Roe. However, for the past four decades in the years since Roe v. Wade, ending abortion rights has become a central cause for many politicians seeking evangelical voters. Religious voices on the right continue to disproportionately influence public policy about abortion and threaten to drown out those of us in the faith community who are deeply troubled by the recent tide of anti-choice legislation that has swept America.
DEBRA W. HAFFNER
"The moral case for access to abortion", The Hill, February 19, 2016
Republicans recognize that making abortion illegal is unpopular, so they make it inaccessible. Republicans work at the state level, particularly in states with large evangelical populations, where their agenda is more popular. Furthermore, the pro-life movement and the Republican Party have found that while it's certainly true most Americans consider themselves pro-choice, both the public and the courts are willing to countenance modest restrictions, which, when stacked together, can greatly reduce access to abortion.
SEAN MCELWEE
"Americans generally support reproductive choice -- so why does the GOP keep winning on abortion?", Salon, January 22, 2017
How many voters who want to prohibit abortion would likewise soften their perspective, if they knew that the nice lady across the street had one? It's too early to tell. But the more that people share their experiences with abortion, the less alien it will seem. Like same-sex marriage, it's about families who are just like yours. And mine.
JONATHAN ZIMMERMAN
"Abortion is a family value", San Francisco Chronicle, July 12, 2018
Abortion is probably the simplest social issue to debate with atheists, because the case against abortion is one of human rights. The average member of the public might not understand the language of "sin," but they certainly understand the language of injustice. The science of when human life begins is easily accessible to anyone, and to explain that any consistent philosophy of human rights must have those rights beginning when the human being begins is a simple task.
JONATHON VAN MAREN
"If you can't convince an atheist abortion is wrong ... you're doing it wrong", LifeSite News, February 10, 2016
Stopping abortion is the most important human rights cause on earth.
CHRIS SMITH
"Congressman Chris Smith: Stopping Abortion is the Most Important Human Rights Cause on Earth", Life News, January 20, 2017
Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. Abortion is profamily, prolife, moral, and good. For many millions of women, abortion has meant getting on with their lives and continuing to meet their responsibilities to themselves, their families, and society.
PATRICIA W. LUNNEBORG
Abortion: A Positive Decision
My view is that regardless of whether you think prohibiting abortion is good or whether you think prohibiting abortion is bad, regardless of how you come out on that, my only point is the Constitution does not say anything about it. It leaves it up to democratic choice. Some states prohibited it and some states didn't. What Roe vs. Wade said was that no state can prohibit it. That is simply not in the Constitution.
ANTONIN SCALIA
interview with Piers Morgan, CNN, July 18, 2012