Werner Hoyer Quotes

No woman has an abortion for fun.

We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent unintended pregnancy. We believe that a woman considering an abortion should not be forced to have an ultrasound against her will.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don't think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

I don't mean to be trite about abortion, but I do feel it's a woman's body, and I don't think anyone should take away her choice of having or not having a child.

Our vision should be of an America where abortion is safe and legal, but rare.

Abortion has an important and positive public health effect.

You can lambaste abortion all you want, but women have been aborting since time began and they will be aborting to time’s end. So forget about it.

Many women have abortions out of love for their unborn fetus.

One out of three American women will need or chose an abortion at some time in their lives. We have to make sure these are safe.

… nearly one in three [American] women will have had at least one abortion by the age of 45.

Planned Parenthood doesn't care about women's health care needs; it cares about abortion.

I don't think that anyone is for abortion in the sense that you hope people are going to have abortions. You hope in an ideal world that every pregnancy is a wanted pregnancy.

I think there are brilliant jokes to be made about abortion, and we should be able to talk about this in the way that we make jokes about death - you should be able to make jokes about everything.

Listen to the pregnant woman. Value her. She values the life growing inside her. Listen to the pregnant woman, and you cannot help but defend her right to abortion.

By the time I was in high school, Roe v. Wade had passed, so that was also happening; girls were getting pregnant and getting abortions - and that happened in my school too.

I leave abortion to the woman. I just fundamentally end there. I absolutely support a woman's right to choose.

No one is pro-abortion.

The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother's convenience.

There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

Too many women believe that abortion is a safety net; abortion is a safety hazard.

Nothing is more personal, more individual, more important to women than the plank on abortion.

35 percent of U. S. births in the last 5 years were the result of unintended pregnancies …. That’s no surprise given recent efforts to reduce access to birth control, sex education, and abortion in this country.

Without going into a philosophical debate on the rights of the unborn, it is important to recognize the right of women to safe abortion. Even in the case of medically-indicated abortions, the pregnancy termination often results in maternal death, and may cause serious morbidity.

No one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child.