Karen DeCrow Quotes

I will continue to be at the forefront, participating in rallies, marches, letter-writing campaigns, and fighting for federal funding for Planned Parenthood. And, I will always oppose the nomination of any anti-choice U.S. Supreme Court Justice.

[Referring to William Clinton:] the abortion President

We acknowledge the freedom of each individual to advocate for a public policy on abortion that reflects his or her beliefs.

I think that it was the best thing that could have happened when the Supreme Court legalized abortion.

Most American want their politicians to support the right of abortion but they don’t want them to be too enthusiastic about it.

As a candidate, Donald Trump said he would punish women for accessing abortion, and as president, he's made good on that promise by stacking the Supreme Court with anti-choice extremists Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch.

Here's what I see: a complacency among the generation of young women whose entire lives have been lived after Roe v. Wade was decided.

Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.

Abortion on demand, throughout the full nine months of a pregnancy, for virtually any reason, became public policy in the United States of America. No other developed democracy had, or has, such a permissive abortion regime.

This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life.

On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.

Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.

Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.

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.

I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.

To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.

Abortion is a right I feel must not go away, and I feel like people aren't mobilizing so much because it's so complicated and it's difficult to understand.

In 2012, the Liberal Party affirmed overwhelmingly at the policy convention that we are a pro-choice party. It means that we are a party that defends women's rights, and therefore, it would be inconsistent for any Liberal MP to be able to vote to take away women's rights.

America is not ready to ban abortions.

The only reason we have a pro-life movement in this country is because of the Catholic people and the Catholic Church.

We support reproductive rights and will stand with women and men around the country to support keeping abortion and birth control safe, legal and accessible.

Too bad John Ashcroft’s mother didn’t believe in abortion.

… the mansion of constitutionalized abortion law, constructed overnight in Roe v. Wade, must be disassembled doorjamb by doorjamb.

Militant forces promoting abortion in this country have invaded my state.

The Republican Party is not doing themselves a service by being so vehemently anti-choice