Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.
Abortion Quotes
Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
Extra place set at your mind’s table like Ezekiel’s empty glass, clean spoon. Hands that never pointed out the moon, laid the baby in the Christmas stable, dried dishes. Voice that doesn’t call downstairs that he or she will be there soon. In steam behind a bathroom door, no one puts on makeup, leaves a […]
I think incest can be handled as a family matter within the family. (Representative, R, Ark., defending his position against abortion even in the case of rape or incest)
For the church to say that abortion is not acceptable for a Catholic is fine. To say directly or indirectly that on something that is a church teaching that you must also vote according to that – that’s not acceptable in a country based on the First Amendment.
Whether you have an abortion, what you put in your own body, with whom you have sex, these are not the affairs of the state. A government does not exist to control the citizens. When it does, it is a tyranny, and must be fought.
The one regret I have about my abortions is that they cost money that could have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior; power over women.
I am pro-choice with limitations, pro-life with exceptions.
Abortion is a skillfully marketed product sold to a woman at a crisis time in her life. If the product is defective, she can not return it for a refund.
