Todd Solondz Quotes

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.

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

I am pro choice. You Mr. Romney are multiple choice

Some pro-life advocates focus almost exclusively on the rights and suffering of the unborn baby, while some pro-choice advocates focus equally exclusively on the rights and suffering of pregnant women. This is a distortion of the moral choice that confronts us as a society.

But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion.

Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.

I am open and will continue to be open to ways to limit abortion. What I am not open to is to removing the right.

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

Donald Trump has not always been pro-life, and I hope that his conversion is complete.

Being pro-choice was not just a movement to me; it was a lifestyle. I wholeheartedly embraced that lifestyle and loved being a part of it.

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.

My own views on abortion, I'm not on either pole of that and neither of the interest groups on either end of this issue would probably be comfortable with my views.

No Republican presidential candidate is a viable option for pro-choice voters of any political philosophy - Democrat, Republican or otherwise.

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

The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother's convenience.

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

It so happens that I'm pro choice.

There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.

I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.

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.

Without going into a philosophical debate on the rights of the unborn, it is important to recognize the right of women to safe abortion. Even in the case of medically-indicated abortions, the pregnancy termination often results in maternal death, and may cause serious morbidity.

The Constitution protects individual decisions in matters of childbearing from unjustified intrusion by the state ….The right to privacy in connection with decisions affecting procreation extends to minors as well as adults.

Our vision should be of an America where abortion is safe and legal, but rare.

No one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child.

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.