Elizabeth May Quotes

The goal was 'every child a wanted child'; it should also have been 'every abortion a wanted abortion', but the two sides of the phony debate were never to meet.

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

A no-win situation .... No one wants anyone they know to have an abortion, or to have an unwanted pregnancy. What we had to find was the least bad solution for the most women.

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

That said, I can't emphasise enough - and I hope you print this - that I absolutely don't judge anybody at all who has an abortion, nor do I think they are murderers, nor do I think they are baby killers.

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

We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent unintended pregnancy. We believe that a woman considering an abortion should not be forced to have an ultrasound against her will.

Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don't think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

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

Too many women believe that abortion is a safety net; abortion is a safety hazard.

America is not ready to ban abortions.

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

Abortion has an important and positive public health effect.

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.

Many women have abortions out of love for their unborn fetus.

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

One out of three American women will need or chose an abortion at some time in their lives. We have to make sure these are safe.

… nearly one in three [American] women will have had at least one abortion by the age of 45.

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

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 evidence is pretty strong: if you have access to family planning and birth control, the abortion rate is going to go down.

Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family. Our no-fault insurance has removed our responsibility for car accidents, and no-fault divorce has removed our responsibility for marriage accidents; why should abortion not be our no-fault sexual insurance policy that removes our responsibility for sex accidents?

We respect the individual conscience of every American on the painful issue of abortion, but believe as a matter of law that this decision should be left to a woman, her conscience, her doctor and her God. But abortion should not only be be safe and legal, it should be rare.