Ken Calvert Quotes

The Conscience Protection Act would ensure no one is coerced to participate in abortions or to provide abortion coverage.

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.

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

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.

I can't find anything in the Constitution that says you prefer the life of the mother, or the convenience of the mother if it's an abortion by choice, over the potential life of the fetus. Look, I think women, if they're required to not have abortions, could die and could - so I favor a woman's right to choose.

In addition, the bill passed by the House requires a person performing an abortion on a minor from a different state to notify one parent in the home state.

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

Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases.

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

Abortion has an important and positive public health effect.

Abortion on demand is bad social policy.

I have been fighting to protect women's healthcare and reproductive rights for decades.

The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act doesn't protect women's health. It threatens it.

I have always stood up to protect women's access to safe and legal abortion, birth control and health care at Planned Parenthood.

This administration will have no tolerance for the type of brazen disregard that Planned Parenthood has shown for both the safety of women and the rule of law.

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.

Safeguarding life at every stage is a solemn responsibility that Hoosiers have entrusted me to uphold, which is why I will be voting in support of Sen. Sasse's Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.

Planned Parenthood is not the front door of women's health. Not here in the 6th District, not in the state of Georgia, and not around the country.

The American people overwhelmingly oppose taxpayer funding of abortions, and it's no different in Arizona, where we have long-standing policy against subsidizing them with public dollars.

If a woman chooses to have an abortion, it is legal to do that in this country, but I don't think taxpayers should be put in a position to have to pay for those abortions.

I remember hearing a radio segment, while working in the studio, that detailed how officials were trying to systematically - and quietly - eliminate individual Planned Parenthood centres throughout the country by tweaking state laws so that it'd be harder and harder and harder for them to operate - and it was working. I was incensed.

We have all these politicians that claim they're pro-life and that say women should not be able to get abortions and all this other stuff... there's nothing more pro-life than helping a woman who wants to have a child have a child. Then I realized that health insurance doesn't cover IVF.

Every woman should have access to quality health care and compassionate abortion alternatives.

I generally favor permissive abortion laws.