Henry Hyde Quotes

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

America is not ready to ban abortions.

We acknowledge the freedom of each individual to advocate for a public policy on abortion that reflects his or her beliefs.

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

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

Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.

In Texas, self abortion is no crime… A woman who carries out an abortion on herself has committed no crime. The law regards her as a victim.

Women should have the right to choose or not to choose abortion.

It [debate over abortion] has the ability to dominate things so much that you can't do anything else.

I've always had both sides mad at me on this issue [abortion].

Pro-lifers believe there are two victims in an abortion: the unborn child and the woman who felt that that was her best option.

I have a nationally distributed film whose pivotal scene is the ultrasound-guided abortion.

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.

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

No one is pro-abortion.

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

The abortion issue has intersected with my public life from the very beginning.

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

Abortion is child mortality.

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.

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

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.

I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.

I don't mean to be trite about abortion, but I do feel it's a woman's body, and I don't think anyone should take away her choice of having or not having a child.

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.