quotations about abortion
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
"Pro-Life Is Pro-Woman and Abortion Is Pro-Nobody", CBS News, February 4, 2016
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
"Why the social justice movement is silent on abortion", Live Action News, February 24, 2016
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
"The March for Life's New Message: 'Pro-Life is Pro-Woman'", Cosmopolitan, January 26, 2016
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
"Man's Girlfriend is Threatening to Abort Their 9-Week-Old Baby", LifeNews, September 1, 2016
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
attributed, "Brownback blasts Kansas court decisions on abortion rights", The Topeka Capital-Journal, January 23, 2017
Abortion is a violent, substandard, and unacceptable answer to the problems it is proposed to solve.
KATE COUSINO
"An Irrational Faith in Abortion", Patheos, January 22, 2017
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
"BoJack Horseman Shows How an Abortion Plotline Can Create Tension and Conflict", Flavorwire, August 9, 2016
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
"An Irrational Faith in Abortion", Patheos, January 22, 2017
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
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
The Ayn Rand Lexicon
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
"Why I Filmed My Abortion", Cosmopolitan, May 5, 2014
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
"Abortion Groups Call on UN to Declare an Official International Safe Abortion Day", CNSNews, August 29, 2016
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
"BoJack Horseman Shows How an Abortion Plotline Can Create Tension and Conflict", Flavorwire, August 9, 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
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
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
"Why the social justice movement is silent on abortion", Live Action News, February 24, 2016
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
We are not unaware of the deep and proper concern and interest that a devoted and protective husband has in his wife's pregnancy and in the growth and development of the fetus she is carrying. Neither has this Court failed to appreciate the importance of the marital relationship in our society. Moreover, we recognize that the decision whether to undergo or to forego an abortion may have profound effects on the future of any marriage, effects that are both physical and mental, and possibly deleterious. Notwithstanding these factors, we cannot hold that the State has the constitutional authority to give the spouse unilaterally the ability to prohibit the wife from terminating her pregnancy, when the State itself lacks that right.
HARRY BLACKMUN
Planned Parenthood of Missouri v. Danforth, 1976
Laws that regulate abortion should be evidence-based and designed to improve women's health.
AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
brief filed with the U. S. Supreme Court, 2016
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