Joycelyn Elders Quotes

Many women have abortions out of love for their unborn fetus.

Abortion is part of being a mother and of caring for children, because part of caring for children is knowing when it is not a good idea to bring them into the world.

Pregnancy is not a disease. The child in the womb is neither a tumor nor a parasite to be destroyed.

I looked at a fetal development chart at the Operation Rescue Office in Dallas. I had a lot of emotions stirring up inside of me. That's when I decided that it was wrong in any stage of pregnancy.

[Anti-abortionists should:] get over their love affair with the fetus.

[Criticizing some anti-abortion groups:] They always want the children to be born, but they don't want to support them when they are born.

If the vice president thinks it’s disgraceful for an unmarried woman to bear a child, and if he believes that a woman cannot adequately raise a child without a father, then he’d better make sure that abortion remains safe and legal.

In modern Britain the most dangerous place to be is in your mother's womb. It should be a place of sanctity.

There is no way to treat fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses as separate constitutional persons [separate from the mother] without subtracting pregnant women from the community of constitutional persons.

If you want Republicans to care about kids, your just going to have to jam them back in the uterus.

I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is 'Abortion', because it is a war against the child... A direct killing of the innocent child, 'Murder' by the mother herself... And if we can accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love... And we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts.

By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems.

You don't have the right to be left alone with that abortion decision. The child is present...you are not alone.

The greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion, which is war against the child. The mother doesn't learn to love, but kills to solve her own problems. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.

The welfare of our children is our main concern, and their best interests are our first priority.

We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

Everyone knows now how early a fetus becomes a baby. Women who have been pregnant have seen their babies on ultrasounds. They know that there is a terrible truth to those horrific pictures the anti-choice fanatics hold up in front of abortion clinics.

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.

My son is my routine and priority, period!

In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.

I'm honestly perplexed about the distinction represented by the cervical wall. On one side, people should be prosecuted if they do anything to harm the fetus, but once on the outside, sorry kid, whatever happens happens. You're on your own.

The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb.

I'm very close to the pro-life movement.

The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.

If you bring a child into the world, you have a responsibility to that child in every sense of the word.