George Carlin Quotes

The only reason we have late abortions is because we make early abortion difficult.

85 percent of our counties do not offer abortions.

If you want an abortion you go to Planned Parenthood and that’s well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.

There are wonderful things having to do with women's health. But not when it comes to abortion.

Abortion on demand, throughout the full nine months of a pregnancy, for virtually any reason, became public policy in the United States of America. No other developed democracy had, or has, such a permissive abortion regime.

I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.

No woman has an abortion for fun.

A woman should be able to choose to have an abortion up to a certain point in pregnancy.

America is not ready to ban abortions.

Our vision should be of an America where abortion is safe and legal, but rare.

Women are taking more charge of their lives, including managing pregnancy and pregnancy termination.... If you can smuggle in cocaine, there is absolutely no way that American women in America are not going to get those drugs, legally or illegally.

I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again. What criminalization will do is force women into garages and back alleys, and then you're going to have two lives in jeopardy. My mom, who was a nurse, used to talk about the messes that would come in after back-alley abortions went wrong. The way to stop abortion is to deal, philosophically and spiritually, with the people who get them. And that's not something government can touch.

A new generation of doctors, who have never seen a woman die from a septic abortion or been haunted by the suicide of a patient denied help, are increasingly reluctant to terminate pregnancies. Only 12 percent of medical schools teach first-trimester abortion as a routine aspect of gynecology.

I've never personally had to use a Planned Parenthood. But I have many friends who have and do and did, and I think it's important that that access be there for everyone.

No matter what your views are on abortion, the Eighth Amendment in the Constitution is a very cruel, cruel law which benefits no one.

Planned Parenthood's mission, on paper, is to give women quality and affordable health care and to protect women's rights. In reality, their mission is to increase their abortion numbers and, in turn, increase their revenue.

The goal of the right is not to stop abortion but to demonize it, punish it and make it as difficult and traumatic as possible. All this it has accomplished fairly well, even without overturning Roe v. Wade .

A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations.

Even as a supporter of Roe v. Wade, I am compelled to acknowledge that the language both sides use on this subject can be unfortunately misleading and unconstructive.... Everyone is worse off for it.

The irony and tragedy is any woman of means can have a safe abortion somewhere in the United States. But women lacking the wherewithal to travel can't. There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.

We've consistently seen, since the late 1990s, that more than half of women believe that abortion should be severely restricted or abolished altogether.

It's very clear that we are going to have 10 different [abortion] laws and that we are going to have these laws made by judges

Each issue has to be looked at as to whether or not it threatens a woman's health or her life, and if it does, you can't support it. And if she just wants to have her legal right to an abortion, she should be able to do it.

Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.

Sometimes I wish I was a woman, just so I could have an abortion.