Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes

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

Equal rights for women. I agree with that concept. But we will never be free, we will never obtain equality, until we stop letting ourselves become pawns of the abortion industry. Our freedom depends on our rejection of abortion.

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

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

America is not ready to ban abortions.

I mentioned it yesterday: I'm one of these people that - I don't - like, on the abortion issue, it's not something that - I'm very uncomfortable talking about it. I'm not gonna kid you. It's a very uncomfortable thing. I think that it's a legal issue. Definitely a legal issue. It's been decided upon by our Supreme Court.

Abortion is child mortality.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don't think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on 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.

[Referring to William Clinton:] the abortion President

You can lambaste abortion all you want, but women have been aborting since time began and they will be aborting to time’s end. So forget about it.

If you're out of touch with the pro-choice majority, you're out of office.

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

Most American want their politicians to support the right of abortion but they don’t want them to be too enthusiastic about it.

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

As the producers of 'Unplanned' learned, there is no article of faith so central to Hollywood as abortion.

A woman has a right to a safe, legal abortion. I've never wavered in that position since I was, like, eight years old and realized what was going on when I heard my mother arguing with people about the issue.

In the more than four decades since Roe v. Wade, it has become clear that some will stop at nothing to obstruct women's reproductive rights.

I've never made any statements about the abortion issue at any time in my life - never retreating one inch - from a woman's rights to legal abortion. Ever.

As a member of the House Pro-Choice Caucus and a strong defender of a woman's right to choose, my bottom line here is this: women have a constitutional right to access abortion.

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.

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

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.

Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.