Alan Dershowitz Quotes

The Constitution says that the right to life of the unborn is protected and given equal rights as the life of the mother.

Abortion is not health care. A woman has a right to her body, but that is not her body. What about the baby?

The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act doesn't protect women's health. It threatens it.

Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to choose an abortion was a privacy right protected by our Constitution.

Pro-lifers believe there are two victims in an abortion: the unborn child and the woman who felt that that was her best option.

The Liberal Party will not vote - no Liberal member of Parliament will vote - to take away a woman's right to choose.

To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license.

I would, if checking boxes in a questionnaire, say I would oppose abortion except when the life of the mother is in danger.

Women should have the right to choose or not to choose abortion.

Keep a woman's right to choose unless George W. Bush is free to baby-sit.

I'm grateful to Donald Trump's pro-life views, and I'm grateful that he's expressed those views so publicly and openly.

In the more than four decades since Roe v. Wade, it has become clear that some will stop at nothing to obstruct women's reproductive rights.

I've never made any statements about the abortion issue at any time in my life - never retreating one inch - from a woman's rights to legal abortion. Ever.

As a member of the House Pro-Choice Caucus and a strong defender of a woman's right to choose, my bottom line here is this: women have a constitutional right to access abortion.

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.

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.

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

Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.

In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights.

I think the next president ought to invoke the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution now that we clearly know that that baby inside the mother's womb is a person at the moment of conception.

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.

If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privacy, which ends up becoming ultimately the right to abortion.

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

One individual doesn't really accept the pro-life position of the party, and the other... says he supports it and takes a position that is logically inconsistent.

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.