quotations about abortion
My abortion story is absolutely uneventful. It has left no scars. But in this current political climate, one in which a woman who makes the responsible choice of not bringing an unwanted child into this world is forced to drive 500 miles or is violently harassed on her way to the clinic door or is pushed to take matters into her own hands, this uneventful-ness seems downright miraculous. May it always be so uneventful. May abortion once again be accepted for what it always has been: a necessary component of responsible family planning.
AMY BRENNEMAN
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"Amy Brenneman: Why I'm Sharing My Abortion Story", Cosmopolitan, February 29, 2016
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People in the pro-choice movement want women considering abortion to believe that the most difficult part of their choice will be the step through the door of the abortion clinic. For women like my mother, far more difficult was the step out the door--and every step after that for the next 20 years.
PRISCA LECROY
"My Mother Regretted Her Abortion", The Atlantic, July 11, 2013
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A woman doesn't make an abortion decision in a bubble. She typically enlists the insight and "wisdom" of others.... The next time you call a post-abortive woman a murderer, realize that is only part of her abortion story. Others share her abortion guilt and may also need healing.
SYDNA MASSÉ
"The Deadly Impact of Abortion Antagonists", Ramah's Voice, May 8, 2018
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As with the other restrictions, waiting periods were sold as a means of ensuring that a woman makes a well-informed decision about seeking abortion. But in practice they have done little except add extra cost and burden to the process, usurping a woman's ability to make her best medical decisions in private consultation with her doctor.
JORDAN SMITH
"Kentucky's New Fetal Pain Law, Like Most Abortion Restrictions, Is Based on Junk Science", The Intercept, January 22, 2017
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But some of the liberties the Supreme Court has found to be protected by that word--liberty--nobody thought constituted a liberty when the 14th Amendment was adopted. Abortion? It was criminal in all the states.
ANTONIN SCALIA
speech at the University of Richmond in Virginia, November 19, 2010
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The extreme public controversies around abortion in America create the impression that a schism exists between the pro-choice movement and communities of faith: one side is denounced as sinful, the other written off as fanatics. Those of us who count ourselves as both religious and pro-choice know this kind of oversimplification is dangerous, because it ignores the religious foundations for affirming abortion as a morally justifiable decision.
DEBRA W. HAFFNER
"The moral case for access to abortion", The Hill, February 19, 2016
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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
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In reality, attempts to stop abortion through restrictive laws--or by withholding family planning aid--can never eliminate abortion, because those methods do not eliminate women's need for abortion.
SNEHA BAROT
"The Global Gag Rule and Fights over Funding UNFPA: The Issues That Won't Go Away", Guttmacher Institute, June 2, 2015
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Feminazis have adopted abortion as a kind of sacrament for their religion/politics of alienation and bitterness.
RUSH LIMBAUGH
The Way Things Ought to Be
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