Virgil Goode Quotes

The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.

I am open and will continue to be open to ways to limit abortion. What I am not open to is to removing the right.

In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights.

We can adhere to the Henry Hyde amendment by saying that no federal funds will be used for abortions. And that's the bottom line for me.

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

I have supported parental notice so long as there is some kind of bypass protection, because insofar as possible, we respect and honor the family. It would be better in most cases if the family could support a young girl's decision either to bear her child, or seek an abortion.

The point is that what we want, Democrats, and what we've always wanted, is to make abortion safe, legal, and rare.

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

A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe.

We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out.

For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts.

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

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.

I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.

In addition the bill would expand an existing law 'conscience clause' that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures.

I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances.

The conservatives on the Rehnquist Court never saw a restriction on abortion that it didn’t like.

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.

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

… the mansion of constitutionalized abortion law, constructed overnight in Roe v. Wade, must be disassembled doorjamb by doorjamb.

If Roe v. Wade were overturned tomorrow, nobody would even notice, because the states are legislating their own laws about abortion, completely independent.

We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country.

I am opposed to abortion on demand, and I am opposed to the 1967 Act in Britain being transferred to the north.

To be clear, any abortion that takes place is one too many. But if it has to take place, then I think it should be available, and it should be available in a safe way.

Taxpayer-funded abortion, especially the devil's bargain with Planned Parenthood, must cease immediately. To be clear, that means I believe Planned Parenthood should receive no tax monies of any kind.