Claire McCaskill Quotes

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

If Senator Obama becomes pro-life then I'll consider giving him my vote.

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

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

Barack Obama and I have an honest disagreement on the issue of abortion.

I think the issue that is really going to hurt the Republican Party is the right-to-life issue. I think they have painted themselves into a real corner.

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.

First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.

A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence.

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

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

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.

It so happens that I'm pro choice.

There's a lot of Democrats, myself included, who have supported right-to-life.

I am pro choice. You Mr. Romney are multiple choice

If you really think abortion is murder, how can you carve out exceptions?

Abortion opponents make up in passion what they lack in numbers.

Abortion is not health care. A woman has a right to her body, but that is not her body. What about the baby?

The only time the issue of abortion ever comes up - and you'll notice this pattern - is when there's a presidential election coming around. When there's a presidential election, all of a sudden, 'Oh my God, we care so much about the babies.'

I am pro-life and always have been.

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.

Those of us who are pro-life should demand more from Congress.

The abortion cases produced an enormous amount of mail to my chambers, vastly more than to the other chambers, I am sure. I sometimes thought there wasn't a woman in the United States who didn't write me a letter on one side or the other of that issue.

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

I'm the only pro-life woman in the Senate. I take this issue very seriously. I'm the mother of two children.