Dennis Kucinich Quotes

America is not ready to ban abortions.

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.

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.

I really didn't know there was two sides to the abortion issue.

In Texas, self abortion is no crime… A woman who carries out an abortion on herself has committed no crime. The law regards her as a victim.

We acknowledge the freedom of each individual to advocate for a public policy on abortion that reflects his or her beliefs.

Thirty-two years after the legalization of abortion by the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the majority of Americans consider themselves pro-life.

I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion.

I'm pro-life but I believe that the federal government ought to stay out of it. That's a decision that the people of each state ought to make for themselves.

I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.

Abortion's a private decision. But I just think it shouldn't be federalized.

In 1967 the abortion laws in England were liberalized and we were all assured that this would not lead to abortion on demand or a decline in respect for unborn life or pressure on medical staff to become involved in abortion against their conscience. Five million abortions later those claims look hollow.

[Referring to William Clinton:] the abortion President

I think that it was the best thing that could have happened when the Supreme Court legalized abortion.

Remember that before 'Roe v. Wade' was decided, there were four states that allowed abortion in the first trimester if that's what the woman sought: New York, Hawaii, California, Alaska. Other states were shifting. And people were fighting over this issue in state legislatures.

There was a time that I questioned the government's role in abortion.

Pro-lifers believe there are two victims in an abortion: the unborn child and the woman who felt that that was her best option.

The only time the issue of abortion ever comes up - and you'll notice this pattern - is when there's a presidential election coming around. When there's a presidential election, all of a sudden, 'Oh my God, we care so much about the babies.'

If one group of people say a woman has a right to choose, I get queasy because I'm against abortion. I don't think a woman has a frivolous right to choose. What I don't want is a desperate woman to die in an illegal abortion.

If a woman chooses to have an abortion, it is legal to do that in this country, but I don't think taxpayers should be put in a position to have to pay for those abortions.

I generally favor permissive abortion laws.

I've never made any statements about the abortion issue at any time in my life - never retreating one inch - from a woman's rights to legal abortion. Ever.

I campaigned on signing the toughest abortion bill in the country.

A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe.

The fact of the matter is most women are pro life.