Richard Dawkins Quotes

With regard to the freedom of the individual for choice with regard to abortion, there is one individual who is not being considered at all, and that is the one who is being aborted. And I have noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

Abortion is the taking of a life.

On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.

Women should have the right to choose or not to choose abortion.

If you really think abortion is murder, how can you carve out exceptions?

I have no respect for the right-to-life position, though I have every respect for an individual who says, "I could never have that procedure, I could never see a film or read a book about that procedure." It doesn't bother me if people feel that way.

Even if abortion were made easy or painless for everyone, it wouldn't change the bottom-line problem that abortion kills children.

[Abortion] is an evil in and of itself, but it is not a religious evil in the beginning, no, it's a human evil. Then obviously, as with every human evil, each killing is condemned.

We think abortion is a bad thing.

Abortion is the ultimate violence.

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.

As governor of New Mexico, I would have - I signed a bill banning late term abortion. I've always favored parental notification. I've always favored counseling. I've always favored the notion of no public funds used for abortion.

Abortion is either OK or it's not.

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.

Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.

I think abortion is murder.

I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.

Your moral stance depends on what you think is being aborted. If you don't believe it to be a person but part of a woman's body, of course you will be pro-choice. I would be virulently pro-choice if I didn't believe it to be a person.

Abortion is the choice that kills!!!

Abortionists should be put to death.

I'm a Republican, but not on this issue [abortion]. It's destroying the party.

The entire matter of abortion is private and personal.

America is not ready to ban abortions.

It [debate over abortion] has the ability to dominate things so much that you can't do anything else.