Abortion Clinics Quotes
A police officer in Chicago had refused an assignment to guard an abortion clinic that had been threatened. He was offered a transfer to a district that had no abortion clinics, but refused to be transferred. He was fired then and the courts upheld the city’s right to fire him.
This quotation is interesting because it shows the extreme degree that some ideologues can take an argument. In this case, the imaginative Tancredo manages to tie abortion to immigration, equality, the elderly and Social Security. His number of abortions was grossly exaggerated as well.
Bray has served four years in prison for conspiracy in 10 abortion clinic bombings in VA, DC and MD.
Justifying his support of the Hyde Amendment prohibiting Federal funds to be used to perform abortions. Carter was normally a staunch defender of equal opportunity for the poor, but the Hyde Amendment de facto prohibited poor women from exercising their rights to have abortions while middle class and wealthy women could exercise that right.. The hypocrisy was difficult for him to explain.