Roger Mahony Quotes

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 fact of the matter is most women are pro life.

To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.

In 1967 the abortion laws in England were liberalized and we were all assured that this would not lead to abortion on demand or a decline in respect for unborn life or pressure on medical staff to become involved in abortion against their conscience. Five million abortions later those claims look hollow.

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

[Anti-abortionists should:] get over their love affair with the fetus.

We favor appropriate legislation and/or a constitutional amendment prohibiting abortion except to save the life of the mother

The Republican Party is not doing themselves a service by being so vehemently anti-choice

Donald Trump has not always been pro-life, and I hope that his conversion is complete.

I'm proud that many of Missouri's lawmakers stood strong to protect the lives of the innocent unborn and women's health.

I campaigned on signing the toughest abortion bill in the country.

I happen to be pro-life.

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 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.

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

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

The passage of time hasn't changed the fact that abortion is a serious, lethal violation of fundamental human rights, and that women and children deserve better, and that the demands of justice, generosity, and compassion require that the right to life be guaranteed to everyone.

I'm 100% pro-life.

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

I am pro-life, I believe in exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. That's my position, take it or leave it.

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.

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

My strong personal view, which I believe is shared by millions of Americans, is that our party should make a strong statement in its platform that the unborn child has a fundamental right to life which should be protected.