Italo Calvino Quotes

I just don't believe in abortion, period. But I would never take away a woman's right to choose what's good for her body. But I still believe that when you do have an abortion, still inside, you go through a lot of stuff. It tears away at your spirit and your soul. So I don't think people think about that.

I am pro-life, I believe in exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. That's my position, take it or leave it.

It so happens that I'm pro choice.

Abortion is an issue between a woman and her God.

When you defend abortion you have to resort to semantic gymnastics.

There will always be issues where an abortion is necessary.

The 'life' in 'pro-life' denotes not the quality of life, but life itself.

Abortion is a question of choice.

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

No one is pro-abortion.

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

Abortion is either OK or it's not.

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

I believe every abortion is a tragedy.

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

I'm a pro-life candidate because I believe that science is proving us right every day.

I don't mean to be trite about abortion, but I do feel it's a woman's body, and I don't think anyone should take away her choice of having or not having a child.

Nothing is more personal, more individual, more important to women than the plank on abortion.

I have noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

A woman should be able to choose to have an abortion up to a certain point in pregnancy.

Few decisions are more personal and intimate, more properly private, or more basic to individual dignity and autonomy than a woman's decision ... whether to end her pregnancy. A woman's right to make that choice freely is fundamental.

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.

[Explaining his anti-abortion stance:] When you're functioning out of conviction, you can't think of politics.

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers’ suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.

The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women.