Jim Gilmore Quotes

The best public policy is to encourage fewer abortions through strong adoption laws and sending a clear abstinence message to our children.

We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

I adore your catchy slogan, “Adoption, not Abortion,” although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective.

I would like to make every child born in America a planned, wanted child.

Every child a wanted child, every mother a willing mother.

We should control fertility clinics so that they do not create spare human beings. They are spare people.

Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.

I am no mother, and I won't be one.

My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.

Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - even in my most furtive days of coming out - that being gay would mean I could not become a mother.

We're not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and Michael Jacksons of the world, but rather assisting infertile couples that deserve the right to have a biological child to have one.

We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies.

Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.

The main reason Italian women resort to abortion is the Catholic insistence that no birth control information be distributed.

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.

If we want to help pregnant women, let's make sure that each pregnancy is a wanted pregnancy.

I say that this is a dirty, filthy book, and the test of it is that no human being would allow that book on his table, no decently educated English husband would allow even his wife to have it…the object of it is to enable a person to have sexual intercourse, and not to have that which in the order of Providence is the natural result of that sexual intercourse. That is the only purpose of the book and all the instruction in the other parts of the book leads up to that proposition.

We shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, the majority of whom are men, making decisions for women.

While men stand proudly and face the sun, boasting that they have quenched the wickedness of slavery, what chains of slavery are, have been or ever could be so intimate a horror as the shackles on every limb—on every thought—on the very soul of an unwilling pregnant woman? .

Why don’t more doe-hard abortion opponents fret over embryos discarded during the course of IVF [in vitro fertilization]? The reason is that destroying an embryo in pursuit of a baby is part of a noble struggle, whereas destroying an embryo to finish high school or law school or even to put enough food on the table for other kids is considered selfish at best.

I haven't sorted out the penalties. But I do know, I do know that I oppose abortion. And I favor adoption. And if we can get this law changed, everybody should make the extraordinary effort to take these kids that are unwanted and sometimes aborted, take the – let them come to birth, and then put them in a family where they will be loved. And you see, yes, my position has evolved. And it's continuing to evolve, and it's evolving in favor of life.

If you really think abortion is murder, how can you carve out exceptions?

Abortion is part of being a mother and of caring for children, because part of caring for children is knowing when it is not a good idea to bring them into the world.

We know that the way to decrease unplanned pregnancies and abortions is to make birth control and family planning services accessible and affordable, not micromanage the type of medical information and reproductive health counseling that women around the world receive.