Abortion Legality Quotes

I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years we should sustain and support it.

Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.

If the Vice President thinks its 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 abortion remains safe and legal.

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 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.

I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again.

The point is that what we want, Democrats, and what we've always wanted, is to make abortion safe, legal, and rare.

When a parliamentary or social majority decrees that it is legal, at least under certain conditions, to kill unborn human life, is it not really making a tyrannical decision with regard to the weakest and most defenseless of human beings?....While public authority can sometimes choose not to put a stop to something which were it prohibited would cause more serious harm, it can never presume to legitimize as a right of individuals even if they are the majority of the members of society an offense against other persons caused by the disregard of so fundamental a right as the right to life.