Abby Johnson Quotes

I think it's the pro-abortion people who are doing this to collect on their insurance, so they can go out and build bigger and better killing centers.

A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe.

I won't use abortion as a litmus test with a pro-choice individual. Someone that is an activist on the abortion issue, I think, goes outside the pale, and I cannot support an activist on the abortion issue.

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

Planned Parenthood can't hide their sickening abortion business behind a 'safe, legal and rare' slogan.

If one group of people say a woman has a right to choose, I get queasy because I'm against abortion. I don't think a woman has a frivolous right to choose. What I don't want is a desperate woman to die in an illegal abortion.

As a person who worked in the abortion industry for eight years, I can say unequivocally that the most manipulation I have ever witnessed was inside the walls of the abortion clinic.

The only thing that will keep an abortion worker in the industry longer is a pro-lifer who condemns them.

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 .

The goal was 'every child a wanted child'; it should also have been 'every abortion a wanted abortion', but the two sides of the phony debate were never to meet.

I'll tell you how to solve this abortion thing...Those unwanted babies...? Leave about 12 of them on the Supreme Court steps.

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.

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.

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.

We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.

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.

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

That said, I can't emphasise enough - and I hope you print this - that I absolutely don't judge anybody at all who has an abortion, nor do I think they are murderers, nor do I think they are baby killers.

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

Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his hosts, to antiabortion rallies on the Mall.

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

Your moral stance depends on what you think is being aborted. If you don't believe it to be a person but part of a woman's body, of course you will be pro-choice. I would be virulently pro-choice if I didn't believe it to be a person.

With jurisdiction over the issue of abortion and the purity and safety of food, was the only place in America where both motherhood and apple pie were controversial.

Abortionists should be put to death.

America is not ready to ban abortions.