Jesse Ventura Quotes

America is not ready to ban abortions.

I'm pro-life but I believe that the federal government ought to stay out of it. That's a decision that the people of each state ought to make for themselves.

Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.

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

A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence.

The entire matter of abortion is private and personal.

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

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.

You can't claim to be pro-life and then vote to remove the restrictions that prevented government-funded abortions in the District of Columbia.

No matter what your views are on abortion, the Eighth Amendment in the Constitution is a very cruel, cruel law which benefits no one.

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

Abortion on demand, throughout the full nine months of a pregnancy, for virtually any reason, became public policy in the United States of America. No other developed democracy had, or has, such a permissive abortion regime.

I don't like telling people where I stand on this, although I'm surprised anybody wonders. I suppose if I say I'm pro-choice, if I make that clear, it let's the audience off the hook, then they can sort of relax. Okay, it's alright he's pro-choice then I can enjoy this.

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.

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

Abortion's a private decision. But I just think it shouldn't be federalized.

Abortion is either OK or it's not.

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

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.

However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.

I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.

Abortion is a social evil to be avoided.

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

[Referring to William Clinton:] the abortion President

I think that it was the best thing that could have happened when the Supreme Court legalized abortion.