Bill Hicks Quotes

We disagree heavily on abortion [with Margot Hentoff].

Abortion continues to be a scourge against this country.

We think abortion is a bad thing.

I have noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

How did you like my courageous silence on abortion.

I think abortion is something that, as a personal matter, I would advise somebody against.

Abortion is the taking of a life.

There was a time that I questioned the government's role in abortion.

Late-term abortions are unconscionable.

Do you really want to put a woman into the White House who supports the greatest assault on women of all? And that is murdering them in the womb before they have a chance to be born.

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

[Abortion] is an evil in and of itself, but it is not a religious evil in the beginning, no, it's a human evil. Then obviously, as with every human evil, each killing is condemned.

You know how to stop abortion? Require that each one occur with a gun.

Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents.

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.

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

Abortion is the ultimate violence.

Barack Obama and I have an honest disagreement on the issue of abortion.

Too bad John Ashcroft’s mother didn’t believe in abortion.

Abortion is emotional and difficult to discuss.

Even as a supporter of Roe v. Wade, I am compelled to acknowledge that the language both sides use on this subject can be unfortunately misleading and unconstructive.... Everyone is worse off for it.

If you go with what Hillary [Clinton] is saying, in the ninth month, you can take the baby and rip the baby out of the womb of the mother just prior to the birth of the baby. Now, you can say that that's OK and Hillary can say that that's OK. But it's not OK with me, because based on what she's saying, and based on where she's going, and where she's been, you can take the baby and rip the baby out of the womb in the ninth month on the final day. And that's not acceptable.

And there is the matter of abortion. We must with calmness and resolve help the vast majority of our fellow Americans understand that the more than 112 million abortions performed in America in 1980 amount to a great moral evil, an assault on the sacredness of human life.

I believe most Americans are pro-choice and anti-abortion.

We've consistently seen, since the late 1990s, that more than half of women believe that abortion should be severely restricted or abolished altogether.