Katha Pollitt Quotes

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

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

I have to certainly stand for life. I know that there are some who disagree, and I respect their point of view. But I believe that life begins at conception. The only exception I have to have on abortion is in that case - of the life of the mother. I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize life is that gift from God.

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

I would, if checking boxes in a questionnaire, say I would oppose abortion except when the life of the mother is in danger.

I think abortion is murder.

I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.

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

[Explaining his anti-abortion stance:] When you're functioning out of conviction, you can't think of politics.

We acknowledge the diversity of deeply held convictions within our fellowship even as we seek to interpret the Scriptures under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Many American Baptists believe that, biblically, human life begins at conception, that abortion is immoral and a destruction of a human being created in God's image … Many others believe that while abortion is a regrettable reality, it can be a morally acceptable action and they choose to act on the biblical principles of compassion and justice … and freedom of will. … Many gradations of opinion between these basic positions have been expressed within our fellowship.

Abortion opponents make up in passion what they lack in numbers.

I believe that abortion is the taking of human life.

With regard to the freedom of the individual for choice with regard to abortion, there is one individual who is not being considered at all, and that is the one who is being aborted. And I have noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust.

I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

There comes a time when a human being has to either face evil or admit to allowing it. Abortion is legal in the United States, but it should not be celebrated or used as a political tool. Viable babies are human beings.

I simply cannot vote for Senator Obama because he's not pro-life.

There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has already come into existence, I haven't found any.

I am very, very proud to say that I am pro-life.

The Republicans have long had a platform of being pro-life. And I'm someone that believes life begins at conception and should be protected.

In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion.

I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.

I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.

The violence of killing in the name of pro-life makes a mockery of the pro-life cause.