ABORTION QUOTES IV

quotations about abortion

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Abortion is a violent, substandard, and unacceptable answer to the problems it is proposed to solve.

KATE COUSINO

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We know that a message many people hear in our country is that in order to be 'pro-woman,' you have to be pro-choice. I would offer that nothing could be further from the truth. I see that as rhetoric and I see that as false. Life is empowering for women. A woman's capacity to have children is an incredible thing, not something to be ashamed of. It doesn't mean that I am defined by that, but it doesn't mean I'm going to pretend it's not part of me. It's an incredible gift.

JEANNE MANCINI

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There's a twisted perception that abortion fosters the empowerment of women. And then there's the barefaced reality that abortion hurts women. The former receives tiresome, exaggerated, and over-covered attention that portrays pro-life men as the culprits. The latter is real-life, heartbreaking, rarely catches the media's attention, and is opposed largely, by women.

CHELSEN VICARI

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Abortion is not merely a women's issue. An abortion is something that negatively affects the whole family -- the mother, the father and especially the unborn child.

MICAIAH BILGER

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On every issue except abortion, those who stand up for social justice are considered by our society to be progressive. If you speak against abortion, however, you are no progressive; you are viewed as a "right-wing religious extremist" engaged in a "war on women's rights." The question of abortion, therefore, forces us to consider our motivations. When we advocate for social justice, are we truly fighting for justice, or are we simply seeking the affirmation of our peers?

MURRAY VASSER

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The entire basis of the pro-life movement is in failing to acknowledge the basic unknowability of others' point of view. The movement is fundamentally about imposing one's morality and definitions on others -- and marshaling the law in service of that imposition. To be pro-choice is to say: I can never ever walk in your shoes.

SARAH SELTZER

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Yet, this can never really be true that an abortion is a right. Our rights come from God and amongst them is the inherent right to life -- not the right to destroy it.

SAM BROWNBACK

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It takes irrational faith of a peculiar sort to know what we do about embryology and yet draw the line of personhood at the arbitrary point of birth.

KATE COUSINO

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Our society breeds this guilt. We inhale it from all directions. Even women who come to the clinic completely solid in their decision to have an abortion say they feel guilty for not feeling guilty. Even though they know 110 percent that this is the best decision for them, they pressure themselves to feel bad about it.

EMILY LETTS

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Safe abortion is an essential health service for women. Would anyone today deliberately withhold effective HIV treatment or safe contraception from people who need them? Why, then, is it still acceptable that safe abortion is being withheld from so many women and girls with unwanted pregnancies?

MARGE BERER

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One method of destroying a concept is by diluting its meaning. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living.

AYN RAND

Tags: Ayn Rand

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There is another method of argumentation I like to use when debating atheists on abortion that I find very effective: that is, appealing to science-based legislation, something secular snobs delight to drone on about when fashionable issues such as global warming crop up in conversation. We should all be able to agree, I point out, that regardless of one's position on the role of government, the one essential role of government is to protect the weak from the strong and to enforce human rights. Surely such laws should be informed by science--and science tells us precisely when vulnerable new human beings, the smallest members of our society, come into existence.

JONATHON VAN MAREN

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The hard part about talking about it in general is everyone wants it to be just one thing: "abortion is good," "abortion is bad," or whatever. We really wanted to talk about the fact that, of course, as a group, we support a woman's right to choose, but also that every person is gonna have their own experience.

JOANNA CALO

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Laws that regulate abortion should be evidence-based and designed to improve women's health.

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

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As with the other restrictions, waiting periods were sold as a means of ensuring that a woman makes a well-informed decision about seeking abortion. But in practice they have done little except add extra cost and burden to the process, usurping a woman's ability to make her best medical decisions in private consultation with her doctor.

JORDAN SMITH

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I suspect that we are blinded to the seriousness of abortion by a deep-seated national and ethnocentric bias. We have been taught since childhood that America is the land "with liberty and justice for all." The bloody, state-sponsored or state-permitted atrocities presented as such on the news are without exception committed in other countries.... It is far easier to decry the atrocities committed in Africa than to address the atrocities committed in our own neighborhoods. When we insist that [abortion] is morally indistinguishable from dismembering, disemboweling, and decapitating a newborn infant, we are calling into question the cherished myth of American superiority. We are forced to acknowledge that our nation is neither as compassionate nor as enlightened as we have allowed ourselves to believe.

MURRAY VASSER

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For many people, morality means a set of rules governing the disposition on one's genital organs; or a set of injunctions against lying, stealing, or killing except when such acts are sanctioned by church or state.

MARILYN FRENCH

Tags: Marilyn French, morality

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But some of the liberties the Supreme Court has found to be protected by that word--liberty--nobody thought constituted a liberty when the 14th Amendment was adopted. Abortion? It was criminal in all the states.

ANTONIN SCALIA

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Feminazis have adopted abortion as a kind of sacrament for their religion/politics of alienation and bitterness.

RUSH LIMBAUGH

Tags: Rush Limbaugh

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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

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