Norma McCorvey Quotes

When I made my final reckoning with the decision not to have kids, I also decided that I would use at least some of my extra time to better the lives of kids who are already here.

They tried to discredit me. I used to tell them, There's many wonderful people out there who can't have children, who would want to have these children.

I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.

I had a brief period of questioning whether I should perhaps adopt a child. And my New Yorker editor, Henry Finder, was horrified by the notion.

Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child and be loved by the child.

I happen to think that there are already tons of perfectly good babies out there already born.

Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted, and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child, and be loved by the child. From our children's home in Calcutta alone, we have saved over 3,000 children from abortions. These children have brought such love and joy to their adopting parents, and have grown up so full of love and joy!

There are so many families around the country that can't have children. We can improve options so families can have children, can adopt more readily those children.

I am no mother, and I won't be one.

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn't have parents.

I do want to have a family at some point. I also want to adopt. I don't feel pressure to have kids because I know that there are so many out there.

If it gets to the point where I actually physically cannot have a child, there's plenty of children in the world that need a stable home and loving parent. I'm so down for adoption.

I want to have and adopt. I always have; ever since I was 18, I wanted a baby, and I wanted to have and adopt because there are a lot of kids. I want to adopt an American baby though, you know what I mean, no offense. Just because there are so many kids here that need our help.

I've been involved in the offering-up-adoption-as-another-choice business for a long time.

I would rather do surrogacy before adopting. If I can't do it, I'd rather find someone who would do it for me.

I'd like another child, and maybe if it doesn't work out, I'll adopt.

As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.

I talked about adopting a baby when I was 20 years old, before it became 'hip.'

Women just weren't made to bear children to give them away.

Orphans Preferred

I've been wanting kids for 10 years. I'd love to adopt, have them naturally - all of it. I want, like, 15.

I don't want to have another baby, but my little sister is adopted, and I was hoping that one day I could do that...There are so many possibilities.

I wanted to talk to a lot of women about their experiences along the path to motherhood - or along the path to not being a mother.

I didn't have any children of my own.

If I'm not blessed with children of my own then I'd like to adopt one day - possibly a child from Pakistan.