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Abolition of a woman’s right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
Edward Abbey1927–1989One Life at a Time, Please (1988).
The women of this Nation still retain the liberty to control their destinies. But the signs are evident and very ominous, and a chill wind blows.
Harry Blackmun1908–1999Concurrence/Dissent in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, 492 U.S. 490 (1989), at 538 and 560.
I fear for the future. I fear for the liberty and equality of the millions of women who have lived and come of age in the 16 years since Roe was decided.
Harry Blackmun1908–1999Concurrence/Dissent in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, 492 U.S. 490 (1989), at 538 and 560.
- Women
I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is not being pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is trusting the individual to make the right decision for herself and her family, and not entrusting that decision to anyone wearing the authority of government in any regard.
Hillary Clintonborn 1947
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
Germaine Greerborn 1939Article “Abortion”, The Sunday Times (21 May 1972)
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
Pope John Paul II1920–2005Homily at Radom, Poland (4 June 1991)
A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.
Pope John Paul II1920–2005Address to a new ambassador of New Zealand to the Holy See, 25 May 2000
- Morality
I’ve noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Anderson-Reagan Presidential Debate (21 September 1980)
No woman has an abortion for fun.
Joan Smithborn 1953
It is a very great poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Mother Teresa1910–1997Quoted in the U.S. Congressional Record, vol. 129 (June 27, 1983), p. 17319
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion, because if a mother can kill her own child what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mother Teresa1910–1997Her Nobel Lecture given upon receiving the Peace Prize (December 11, 1979).
A man doesnt want a child he is a dead beat dad. A woman doesnt want a child she is pro choice.
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