Abortion Debate Quotes

Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the eucharist. That's why it uses the same holy words, "This is my body," with the blasphemous opposite meaning.

Abortion is not health care. A woman has a right to her body, but that is not her body. What about the baby?

I think future generations will look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies who we never gave a chance to live.

A fetus is no more a human than an acorn is a tree.

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.

I've always had both sides mad at me on this issue [abortion].

Abortion is child mortality.

I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.

I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.

I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.

I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.

Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.

I think abortion is something that, as a personal matter, I would advise somebody against.

I support Donald Trump, but I also support abortion and a women's right to choice, what to do with their body.

I think we have deluded ourselves into believing that people don't know that abortion is killing. So any pretense that abortion is not killing is a signal of our ambivalence, a signal that we cannot say yes, it kills a fetus.

At least gays don't kill babies before their due date.

Abortion opponents make up in passion what they lack in numbers.

Zika could become the newest flashpoint in America’s debate on abortion. With nearly 1,000 pregnant women in the U.S. infected with Zika and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advising all expectant mothers to be screened for exposure to the virus, the USA is beginning to get a hint about why the issue became so contentious in Latin America this year.

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.

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

In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life.

Being pro-life is an essential part of being a writer.

Protection of the life of the mother as an excuse for an abortion is a smoke screen. In my 36 years of pediatric surgery, I have never known of one instance where the child had to be aborted to save the mother's life. If toward the end of the pregnancy complications arise that threaten the mother's health, the doctor will induce labor or perform a Caesarean section. His intention is to save the life of both the mother and the baby. The baby's life is never willfully destroyed because the mother's life is in danger.

My first March for Life was in 2010, three months after I left my job in the abortion industry as clinic director at a Planned Parenthood in Texas. It was intensely emotional, shocking in many ways, especially the outright love I saw in the faces of people who I once considered enemies.

Does the unborn human fetus have at any point the right to live?