Bart Stupak Quotes

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

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.

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.

Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life.

… the mansion of constitutionalized abortion law, constructed overnight in Roe v. Wade, must be disassembled doorjamb by doorjamb.

Taxpayer-funded abortion, especially the devil's bargain with Planned Parenthood, must cease immediately. To be clear, that means I believe Planned Parenthood should receive no tax monies of any kind.

It's laughable to claim the pro-life label while simultaneously putting people's lives at risk because you're too stubborn to acknowledge that Medicaid doesn't fund abortions.

I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country.

I am opposed to abortion and to government funding of abortions. We should not spend state funds on abortions because so many people believe abortion is wrong.

Listen to the pregnant woman. Value her. She values the life growing inside her. Listen to the pregnant woman, and you cannot help but defend her right to abortion.

By the time I was in high school, Roe v. Wade had passed, so that was also happening; girls were getting pregnant and getting abortions - and that happened in my school too.

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

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

While Texas women have the right to safe, legal abortion, in reality there are already very few facilities in Texas to provide this essential care. In 2008, 92 percent of Texas counties had no abortion provider.

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.

For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts.

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

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.

We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent unintended pregnancy. We believe that a woman considering an abortion should not be forced to have an ultrasound against her will.

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

The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.

I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances.

Seventy-seven percent of anti-abortion leaders are men. 100% of them will never be pregnant.

The conservatives on the Rehnquist Court never saw a restriction on abortion that it didn’t like.