Michael N. Castle Quotes

I really didn't know there was two sides to the abortion issue.

America is not ready to ban abortions.

I've always had both sides mad at me on this issue [abortion].

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 happen to be pro-life.

As governor of New Mexico, I would have - I signed a bill banning late term abortion. I've always favored parental notification. I've always favored counseling. I've always favored the notion of no public funds used for abortion.

The abortion issue has intersected with my public life from the very beginning.

We call upon Southern Baptists to work for legislation that will allow the possibility of abortion under such conditions as rape, incest, clear evidence of severe fetal deformity, and carefully ascertained evidence of the likelihood of damage to the emotional, mental, and physical health of the mother

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

When you defend abortion you have to resort to semantic gymnastics.

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

Do you really want to put a woman into the White House who supports the greatest assault on women of all? And that is murdering them in the womb before they have a chance to be born.

I'm very contra my constituency in terms of abortion because I'm positively against it. I don't have the right to any other view. My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.

We oppose and abhor the damnable practice of wholesale abortion and every other unholy and impure act which strikes at the very foundation of the home and family, our most basic institutions.

For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person.

Even if abortion were made easy or painless for everyone, it wouldn't change the bottom-line problem that abortion kills children.

I am pro-life. I hate the concept of abortion.

I'm as pro-life as a person gets. You're not going to have a truce.

The fact of the matter is most women are pro life.

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.

In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.

I leave abortion to the woman. I just fundamentally end there. I absolutely support a woman's right to choose.

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

My own views on abortion, I'm not on either pole of that and neither of the interest groups on either end of this issue would probably be comfortable with my views.

No one is pro-abortion.