Norma McCorvey Quotes

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

America is not ready to ban abortions.

There was a time that I questioned the government's role in abortion.

I mentioned it yesterday: I'm one of these people that - I don't - like, on the abortion issue, it's not something that - I'm very uncomfortable talking about it. I'm not gonna kid you. It's a very uncomfortable thing. I think that it's a legal issue. Definitely a legal issue. It's been decided upon by our Supreme Court.

I won't use abortion as a litmus test with a pro-choice individual. Someone that is an activist on the abortion issue, I think, goes outside the pale, and I cannot support an activist on the abortion issue.

The national Democratic Party has embraced abortion on demand. I believe this position is wrong in principle and out of the mainstream of our party's historic commitment to protecting the powerless.

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.

I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.

On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.

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

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

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

How did you like my courageous silence on abortion.

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

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 only time the issue of abortion ever comes up - and you'll notice this pattern - is when there's a presidential election coming around. When there's a presidential election, all of a sudden, 'Oh my God, we care so much about the babies.'

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.

The fact of the matter is most women are pro life.

The abortion cases produced an enormous amount of mail to my chambers, vastly more than to the other chambers, I am sure. I sometimes thought there wasn't a woman in the United States who didn't write me a letter on one side or the other of that issue.

Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.

Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his hosts, to antiabortion rallies on the Mall.

Abortion is child mortality.

I'm a Republican, but not on this issue [abortion]. It's destroying the party.

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

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