Pro Choice Abortion Quotes:

When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: Children, Abortion, Fit, Against Abortion, Pro Choice Abortion

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Country, Teaching, People, Mother Country, Pro Abortion

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

- Margaret Sanger

source: Woman and the New Race ch. 8 (1920)

topic: Mother, Independent, Doe, International Women's Day, Pro Abortion

No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.

- Frederica Mathewes-Green

topic: Animal, Ice Cream, Abortion, Porsche, Pro Abortion

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 Abbey

topic: Abortion, Want, Maternity, Abolition, Pro Abortion

If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?

- Gayle Forman

topic: Children, Choices, Trust Me, Pro Choice Abortion

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

topic: Women, Abortion, Privacy, Pro Abortion, Pro Choice Abortion

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 Clinton

topic: Men, Choices, Abortion, Make The Right Decision, Pro Abortion

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

- Florynce Kennedy

topic: Sex, Pregnancy, Men, Pro Abortion, Womens Rights

I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.

- Julianna Baggott

topic: Running, Believe, Men, Pro Choice Abortion

I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, we’ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don’t believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain, and lifelong, grinding poverty show us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we’ve made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred.

- Caitlin Moran

topic: Pain, War, Believe, Pro Abortion, Pro Choice Abortion

We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.

- Joycelyn Elders

source: "Joycelyn Elders is Back!". "The Rush Limbaugh Show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. March 13, 2014.

topic: Children, Worry, Choices, Elders, Pro Abortion

How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelette?

- George Carlin

source: "Back in Town". Documentary, Comedy, 1996.

topic: Funny, Abortion, Religion, Pro Choice Abortion, Sanctity Of Life

I used to be pro-choice."..."I was once pro-choice and the thing that changed my mind was, I read my husband's biology books, medical books, and what I learned . . . At the moment of conception, a life starts. And this life has its own unique set of DNA, which contains a blueprint for the whole genetic makeup. The sex is determined. We know there's a life because it's growing and changing.

- Kathy Ireland

topic: Sex, Husband, Book, Pro Choice Abortion, Roe V Wade

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.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Rights, Choices, Destroying, Pro Choice Abortion

Young women need to know that abortion rights and abortion access are not presents bestowed or retracted by powerful men (or women) - Presidents, Supreme Court justices, legislators, lobbyists - but freedoms won, as freedom always is, by people struggling on their own behalf.

- Katha Pollitt

source: Katha Pollitt (2007). “Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture”, p.308, Modern Library

topic: Powerful, Struggle, Men, Powerful Man, Pro Choice Abortion

How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with LOVE, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Hurt, Mean, Giving, Innocent Children, Against Abortion

Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.

- Camille Paglia

topic: Abortion, Fit, Casual, Pro Abortion, Pro Choice Abortion

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

- Stanley Fish

topic: Pro Life, Choices, Historical, Pro Choice Abortion, Scientific Evidence

What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth.

- Thomas Friedman

topic: Believe, Abortion, Birth, Pro Abortion, Pro Choice Abortion

Pro-choice and pro-life activists live in different worlds, and the scope of their lives, as both adults and children, fortifies them in their belief that their own views on abortion are the more correct, the more moral, and more reasonable. When added to this is the fact that should 'the other side' win, one group of women will see the very real devaluation of their lives and life resources, it is not surprising that the abortion debate has generated so much heat and so little light.

- Kristin Luker

source: Kristin Luker (1985). “Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood”, p.215, Univ of California Press

topic: Children, Real, Winning, Pro Choice Abortion

You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really.

- Ellen Barkin

topic: Cute, Daughter, Mother, Pro Choice Abortion

Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn't get pregnant.

- Kathleen Parker

topic: Men, Choices, Abortion, Political Debates, Pro Choice Abortion

My argument has always been that nature has a master plan pushing every species toward procreation and that it is our right and even obligation as rational human beings to defy nature's fascism. Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.

- Camille Paglia

topic: Pushing, Argument, Fit, Procreation, Pro Abortion

I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.

- Sandra Bernhard

topic: Choices, Abortion, Humanist, Pro Choice Abortion

I think the Republican Party should be a pro-life party. I am pro-life. I do not apologize for that. On the flip side of that coin, the Republican Party has been big enough to allow pro-choice advocates to be heard.

- J. C. Watts

source: Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.282, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Party, Thinking, Choices, Pro Choice Abortion

Whether it is gun control lobby, health care lobby, or abortion, pro-choice lobby, whatever it is, people are always trying to say that it is about restricting rights and they are never really prepared to talk about what the honest tradeoffs are. One of the things we need to do a better job of is actually painting those tradeoffs.

- Ian Bremmer

source: Interview With Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. February 25, 2013.

topic: Pro Choice Abortion