John Fleming Quotes

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 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.

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

America is not ready to ban abortions.

Planned Parenthood has amassed a Third Reich-style death count completely legally and while pocketing half a billion dollars a year to do so.

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.

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.

I do not think that abortion services should be part of our foreign aid funding in any way.

Do you really want to put a woman into the White House who supports the greatest assault on women of all? And that is murdering them in the womb before they have a chance to be born.

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

All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.

Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.

I really didn't know there was two sides to the abortion issue.

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

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.'

Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.

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.

The entire matter of abortion is private and personal.

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

I've always had both sides mad at me on this issue [abortion].

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.

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

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

While there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in America each year are a disgrace to civilization.

Planned Parenthood can't hide their sickening abortion business behind a 'safe, legal and rare' slogan.