Blase J. Cupich Quotes

Abortion is a question of choice.

Abortion is an attack on the family and the humanity that unites us all.

There was a time that I questioned the government's role in abortion.

Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents.

Abortion is the ultimate violence.

In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion.

Barack Obama and I have an honest disagreement on the issue of abortion.

I think abortion is murder.

We're always going to argue about abortion. It's a hard choice and it's controversial, and that's why I'm pro-choice, because I want people to make their own choices.

Abortion is an issue between a woman and her God.

The violence of killing in the name of pro-life makes a mockery of the pro-life cause.

Whenever the abortion issue is raised, people are asked to compromise their principles in order to reach some sort of political accommodation.

I am pro-life and always have been.

I have to certainly stand for life. I know that there are some who disagree, and I respect their point of view. But I believe that life begins at conception. The only exception I have to have on abortion is in that case - of the life of the mother. I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize life is that gift from God.

A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust.

The national Democratic Party has embraced abortion on demand. I believe this position is wrong in principle and out of the mainstream of our party's historic commitment to protecting the powerless.

I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion.

I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.

I'm against abortion.

You know, Hillary Clinton's always saying how Republicans don't follow science? Well, they're the ones not listening to the scientists today, because doctors say that at 20 weeks that is a viable life inside the womb. And at that point, it's a life that we have the right to protect, and I think we should protect.

First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.

There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has already come into existence, I haven't found any.

The Republicans have long had a platform of being pro-life. And I'm someone that believes life begins at conception and should be protected.