Abby Johnson Quotes

Everyone knows now how early a fetus becomes a baby. Women who have been pregnant have seen their babies on ultrasounds. They know that there is a terrible truth to those horrific pictures the anti-choice fanatics hold up in front of abortion clinics.

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

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

When anti-choice men talk about abortion, you get the feeling they really have no idea what they're talking about - they haven't done even the slightest bit of research about how hard the choice really is and how painful the experience really is.

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.

Maybe the best way to get people to be pro-life is to start 'em off in amateur-life.

No one is pro-abortion.

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

The abortion issue has intersected with my public life from the very beginning.

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.

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.

Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life.

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

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

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

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.

Pro-lifers believe there are two victims in an abortion: the unborn child and the woman who felt that that was her best option.

Why is it controversial that I chose to talk about my abortion? And the fact that I got an abortion when I was in a marriage and could have financially supported a child, why did I feel so much shame for that?

It's laughable to claim the pro-life label while simultaneously putting people's lives at risk because you're too stubborn to acknowledge that Medicaid doesn't fund abortions.

'And Then There Were None' is a network of former abortion clinic workers who are stepping forward to tell our stories about what really happens behind the closed doors of Planned Parenthood and abortion facilities across America. We are stepping forward because our voices deserve to be heard, and America deserves to know the truth.

I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country.

Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no choice, either

I think there are brilliant jokes to be made about abortion, and we should be able to talk about this in the way that we make jokes about death - you should be able to make jokes about everything.

By the time I was in high school, Roe v. Wade had passed, so that was also happening; girls were getting pregnant and getting abortions - and that happened in my school too.