Quotes tagged ‘Abortion’

“There are a lot of myths and misinformation about abortion. These myths may be passed down by parents or perpetuated by friends, perhaps well-meaning but just uninformed. Or they may be shouted by the President of the United States during the State of the Union address, or on his much-followed Twitt…”

— Brittney McNamara, teenvogue.com

“When someone calls you a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe because you happen to disagree with them about tax policy or same-sex marriage or abortion, that’s bullying. When someone slanders you because you happen to disagree with them about global warming or the government shutdown, that’s bullying.…”

— Ben Shapiro, amazon.com

“You have a job to do and it doesn't mean succumbing to somebody's emotional pitch made out on the sidewalk. You're there to make legal decisions based on the law and the Constitution of the United States.”

— Sandra Day O'Connor, makers.com

“It was a huge night for women candidates—particularly women of color—but there were also some sad losses in high-profile races. All in all, kind of a mixed bag!”

— Cady Drell, marieclaire.com

“I was much more worried about only including stories like ours and leaving out other women. That was, by far, my biggest concern. I think we allow the antis to really run the table on this particular debate”

— Erika Christensen, thecut.com

“Oh, Michael. Michael, you are blind. It wasn't a miscarriage. It was an abortion. An abortion, Michael. Just like our marriage is an abortion. Something that's unholy and evil. I didn't want your son, Michael! I wouldn't bring another one of you sons into this world! It was an abortion, Michael! It…”

— Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, Kay Corleone, Diane Keaton, imdb.com

“I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”

— Ronald Reagan, foxnews.com

“When abortions are illegal, women don’t stop getting them— they just risk their lives to do it.”

— Senator Elizabeth Warren, marieclaire.com

“It's not just about abortion, it's about the next 20 years. Twenties and Thirties it was the role of government, Fifties and Sixties it was civil rights. The next two decades it's gonna be privacy. I'm talking about the Internet. I'm talking about cell phones. I'm talking about health records and wh…”

— Dee Dee Myers, Aaron Sorkin, Patrick Caddell, Sam Seaborn, Rob Lowe, imdb.com

“My point is that you were a meth-head, white-trash piece of shit, and your children, had they been born, would have been meth-head, white-trash pieces of shit. So by terminating those pregnancies, you spared society the scourge of your offspring. I mean, when you think about it, it's a blessing.”

— Jenji Kohan, Carrie 'Big Boo' Black, Lea DeLaria, imdb.com

“If you believe that abortion should only be permissible in cases of rape or incest, don’t pretend it’s about ‘life’. If it’s ok so long as she was raped, what you’re saying is that women should be punished for consenting to sex by forcing them to give birth.”

— Laurie Penny, twitter.com

“Abortion is a consent issue. How could it be anything else? When a person is compelled by the state to bear a child against her will, that is a monstrous violation of her consent, her dignity and her autonomy.”

— Laurie Penny, twitter.com

“All this time, you've been thinking, 'What if that loser Jerry hadn't talked me out of the abortion?' Well, now you know, you'd be a doctor. Whoop-dee-doo. You'd also be drinking wine, alone in a house full of exotic birds. And I'd be on DiCaprio's yacht, banging Kristen Stewart!”

— Ryan Ridley, Justin Roiland, Dan Harmon, Jerry Smith (voice), Chris Parnell, imdb.com

“Maybe there is no 'right time' to get pregnant, but in my case, I knew there’d be a time more right than July of 2014.”

— Mélanie Berliet, thoughtcatalog.com

“No woman owes anyone an answer about whether she has or hasn’t. But roughly one in four of us have.”

— Cindi Leive, nytimes.com

“My difficulty with Roe v. Wade is a legal rather than a moral one. I do not believe – and no one believed for 200 years – that the Constitution contains a right to abortion. And if a state were to permit abortion on demand, I would and could in good conscience vote against an attempt to invalidate t…”

— Antonin Scalia, pewforum.org

“The Constitution contains no right to abortion. It is not to be found in the longstanding traditions of our society, nor can it be logically deduced from the text of the Constitution - not, that is, without volunteering a judicial answer to the nonjusticiable question of when human life begins. Leav…”

— Antonin Scalia, en.wikisource.org

“The point at which life becomes 'worthless,' and the point at which the means necessary to preserve it become 'extraordinary' or 'inappropriate,' are neither set forth in the Constitution nor known to the nine Justices of this Court any better than they are known to nine people picked at random from…”

— Antonin Scalia, en.wikipedia.org

“Some Republican lawmakers are emboldened by President Trump, who has been more supportive of their agenda than any president in decades.”

— Robert Barnes, thelily.com

“Facts, conservatives are fond of saying, do not care about your feelings. That is, unless they are conservative feelings, which we are expected to treat with unerring delicacy, even when they are scientifically unfounded.”

— Jennifer Wright, harpersbazaar.com