“One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice.” PeopleFacesSocialJusticeIssuesRightsParticularBirthConcernSocial JusticeDivorceCivil RightsAbortionBirth ControlRemarriage Author:William P. Leahy
“Abortion on demand is the ultimate State tyranny; the State simply declares that certain classes of human beings are not persons, and therefore not entitled to the protection of the law. The State protects the 'right' of some people to kill others, just as the courts protected the 'property rights' of slave masters in their slaves. Moreover, by this method the State achieves a goal common to all totalitarian regimes: it sets us against each other, so that our energies are spent in the struggle between State-created classes, rather than in freeing all individuals from the State.” PeopleHumansPersonsStatesLawCertainIndividualEnergyGoalHuman BeingsCommonClassStruggleRightsAchieveMastersProtectDemandUltimateMethodCourtPropertySlaveProtectionTyrannyAbortionRegimesProtectedEntitledProperty RightsTotalitarian Regimes Author:Ron Paul
“Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.” HumansGovernmentHumanityHuman BeingsVirtueRightsHuman RightsPrivilegeAbortionEntitlementPro LifeRight To LifeAbortion RightsHuman Rights DayAnti AbortionCatholic Pro Life Author:Mother Teresa
“I hope we don't have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion. The parity of women's health. It's very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.” ThinkingFightingWinningRightsBirthBattleAbortionKeep GoingTerritoryAgain And AgainDepressingBirth ControlParityWomen's HealthVery Depressing Author:Erica Jong
“Pro-choice supporters are often heard using the cool language of the courts and the vocabulary of rights. Americans who are deeply ambivalent about abortion often miss the sound of caring.” ChoicesLanguageSoundRightsHeardMissingCourtCaringAbortionSupporterVocabularyAmbivalent Author:Ellen Goodman
“The impulse to make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free is an old one ... When we are badly frightened, we think we can make ourselves safer by sacrificing some of our liberties. We did it during the McCarthy era out of fear of communism. Less liberty is regularly proposed as a solution to crime, to pornography, to illegal immigration, to abortion, to all kinds of threats.” ThinkingKindLibertyRightsSacrificeSecurityCrimeSolutionsThreatImmigrationAll KindsCommunismErasImpulseAbortionIllegalFrightenedPornographyIllegal Immigration Author:Molly Ivins
“Our role as artist is more controversial now because there are those, claiming the absolute authority of religion, who detest much of our work as much as they detest most of our politics. Instead of rationally debating subjects like abortion or gay rights, they condemn as immoral those who favor choice and tolerance. They disown their own dark side and magnify everyone else's until, at the extreme, doctors are murdered in the name of protecting life. I wonder, who is this God they invoke, who is so petty and mean? Is God really against gun control and food stamps for poor children?” MeanChildrenArtistChoicesNamesSidesDarkPoorWonderRolesRightsSubjectsGayAuthorityGunDoctorsAbsolutesExtremesFavorsToleranceAbortionGun ControlStampsImmoralPettyControversialDark SideGay RightsInvokeDetestFood StampsPoor Children Author:Barbra Streisand
“There can be people who feel one way about gay rights, another way about gay rights. There can be people who have different views on abortion. But we respect each other. I think we learn from each other. And we understand that ultimately we have the same values.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsDifferentValuesViewsRightsGayOne WayAbortionAnother WayGay RightsDifferent ViewsRespect Each Other Author:Rudy Giuliani
“You've got these twenty million people who call themselves the Evangelical Christians who will put their hand up and say, I believe in the devil, I'm against abortion and gay rights, and we have to blow up the world. It's frightening.” PeopleWorldBelieveHandsChristianI BelieveMillionsRightsGayDevilTwentiesBlowI Believe InAbortionFrighteningGay RightsEvangelicalHands UpAgainst Abortion Author:Jeanette Winterson
“Abortion is a states' rights issue. Education is a states' right issue. Medicinal marijuana is a states' rights issue. Gay marraige is a states' rights issue. Assisted suicide- like Terri Schiavo- is a states' rights issue. Come to think of it, almost every issue is a states' rights issue. Let's get the federal government out of our lives.” ThinkingStatesGovernmentIssuesOur LivesRightsGaySuicideAbortionMarijuanaFederal GovernmentStates RightsAssisted Suicide Author:Wayne Allyn Root
“Here's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay marriage in New York City or at least the civil unions in New York City. He's called a champion of gay rights. Rudy is opposed to school choice. He's in favor of open borders.” SchoolChoicesCitiesRightsNew YorkGayVoteUnionsFavorsBordersChampionAbortionNew York CityGay MarriageGay RightsRudyPro AbortionSchool Choice Author:James Dobson
“We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus theres a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And thats totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out.” BelieveLawLanguagePayRightsMonthsDollarsAbortionFundPlusSenateSubsidiesReproductive Rights Author:Bart Stupak
“When you represent the state of Washington, we have a tradition of deciding social issues by vote. Washington State passed abortion rights before Roe v. Wade and affirmed it at the ballot box later.” StatesSocialIssuesRightsTraditionVoteBoxesAbortionSocial IssuesBallotsWadeRoe V WadeAbortion RightsWashington State Author:Michael Baumgartner
“There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an irony it would be if fanatics continued to kill and yet it was the apathy and silence of the medical profession that most wounded the ability to provide what is, after all, a medical procedure.” IfsMayWould BeAbilitySilenceRightsGenerationsDoctorsMedicineProfessionMedicalIronyKitchenAbortionApathyWoundedProceduresFanaticsNew GenerationInfectionMedical ProfessionMedical Procedures Author:Anna Quindlen
“When women talk about "privacy" they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about "a room of one'sown" refer to psychological space, rarely to physical solitude. For most women being alone is tantamount to being deserted.” MeanWomenSpaceRoomsMillionsRightsWrittenFeminismSolitudeFeministPsychologicalAbortionPrivacyDesertedAbortion Rights Author:Florence King
“It's said the religious right wants to force its faith on the public. But whose faith are we talking about?... Everyone who operates in the political arena wants to see their morals reflected in our laws and governmental institutions - including the National Organization of Women, the National Abortion Rights Action League, and the American Civil Liberties Union, whether or not they are willing to admit it.” WantSaidActionChristianLawPoliticalForceReligiousTalkingLibertyMoralRightsWillingOrganizationInstitutionsUnionsIncludingLeagueAbortionArenaCivil LibertiesAbortion Rights Author:Don Feder
“Historically the opposition to abortion and birth control ... stemmed from the urgency of the need to decrease the mortality and morbidity rates and to increase the population ... in the matter of abortion the human rights of the mother with her family must take precedence over the survival of a few weeks' old foetus without sense or sensibility.” NeedsHumansMatterMotherRightsWeekBirthSurvivalIncreaseRateHuman RightsPopulationAbortionOppositionMortalitySensibilityUrgencyDecreaseBirth ControlPrecedenceMorbidity Author:Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill
“Arlen Specter is the man who voted in favor of Bill Clinton during impeachment, voted against Robert Bork for the Supreme Court, voted against school choice for the District of Columbia, endorses an absolutist interpretation of abortion rights. He is bright and he is tough and he belongs elsewhere.” MenSchoolChoicesRightsHe ManToughBillsCourtClintonFavorsSupremeAbortionInterpretationElsewhereSupreme CourtColumbiaImpeachmentAbortion RightsSchool Choice Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.
“I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can possibly be the same people who are for abortion? They are the same people who are for animal rights, but they are not for the rights of the unborn.” PeopleKnowsWantWarLossAnimalKnow HowRightsAbortionAnimal RightsUnbornAgainst War Author:Jim Gibbons
“I said those things about gay rights and abortion on opposite day. I cannot BELIEVE you don't have opposite day in North Carolina!” BelieveSaidRightsGayOppositesAbortionGay RightsCarolinaNorth Carolina Author:Mitt Romney
“The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.” WorldLawGreaterRightsMovementGayComputerThreatNuclearAbortionPornographyGay RightsNuclear FamiliesAbortion Laws Author:Alvin Toffler
“The left promises abortion rights and cradle to the grave protection, so the trick is to make it to the cradle.” LeftRightsPromiseProtectionGravesTricksAbortionCradleAbortion Rights Author:Dennis Miller
“The US is off the spectrum in religious commitment. It's been increasing since 1980 but it's a major part of the voting base of the Republican Party so that means committing to anti-abortion positions, opposing women's rights.” MeanReligiousPartyRightsPositionRepublicanMajorsCommitmentAbortionVotingWomens RightsRepublican PartySpectrumOpposingAnti Abortion Author:Noam Chomsky
“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.” PeopleNeedsTryingCareJobsChoicesRightsHonestPaintingGunPreparedHealth CareAbortionGun ControlAlways TryingBetter JobsPro Choice Abortion Author:Ian Bremmer
“[The Republicans] all want to see women's rights eroded and for abortion to become illegal again.” WantRightsRepublicanAbortionIllegalWomens Rights Author:Hillary Clinton