Bart Stupak Quotes

We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.

If a woman chooses to have an abortion, it is legal to do that in this country, but I don't think taxpayers should be put in a position to have to pay for those abortions.

Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions.

We can adhere to the Henry Hyde amendment by saying that no federal funds will be used for abortions. And that's the bottom line for me.

America is not ready to ban abortions.

85 percent of our counties do not offer abortions.

Taxpayer-funded abortion, especially the devil's bargain with Planned Parenthood, must cease immediately. To be clear, that means I believe Planned Parenthood should receive no tax monies of any kind.

The Hyde Amendment might prohibit federal dollars from directly funding abortion, but federal money is used elsewhere in Planned Parenthood, which allows other funds to be used for abortion.

I certainly don't think that taxpayers should subsidize abortions.

Thirty-two years after the legalization of abortion by the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the majority of Americans consider themselves pro-life.

I am opposed to abortion and to government funding of abortions. We should not spend state funds on abortions because so many people believe abortion is wrong.

A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe.

In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.

For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts.

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

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

The Democratic policy is any abortion, any time, for any reason at any point in a woman's pregnancy, right up until the last minute, to be paid by taxpayers. Barbara Boxer described this policy as, 'It's not a life until it leaves the hospital.'

In Texas, self abortion is no crime… A woman who carries out an abortion on herself has committed no crime. The law regards her as a victim.

It [debate over abortion] has the ability to dominate things so much that you can't do anything else.

[Referring to William Clinton:] the abortion President

Remember that before 'Roe v. Wade' was decided, there were four states that allowed abortion in the first trimester if that's what the woman sought: New York, Hawaii, California, Alaska. Other states were shifting. And people were fighting over this issue in state legislatures.

The American people overwhelmingly oppose taxpayer funding of abortions, and it's no different in Arizona, where we have long-standing policy against subsidizing them with public dollars.

I generally favor permissive abortion laws.

I campaigned on signing the toughest abortion bill in the country.

Abortion, however, is a big threshold issue for me because the dominant majority of people in my state are pro-choice. I ran as a pro-choice Democrat, and she fills Sandra Day O'Connor's shoes, and they are critical shoes.