abortion policy Quotes

Abortion's a private decision. But I just think it shouldn't be federalized.

For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts.

The Conscience Protection Act would ensure no one is coerced to participate in abortions or to provide abortion coverage.

Abortion on demand is bad social policy.

America is not ready to ban abortions.

It would be a real failure if agreeing that it [abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue.

I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country.

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

The Democratic Party's rigidly pro-choice stance is one of the more unyielding positions in contemporary American politics.

I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances.

I think that right now they are doing what they have to do. [Referring to China's one-child policy, and forced abortion for women pregnant more than once.] I don't agree with forced abortion, but I don't think the United States needs to interfere with what they're doing internally in this regard. China is courting a demographic catastrophe. By aborting more girls than boys, in 10 or 20 years Chinese men will have to import wives from Indonesia, which will, in a sense, dilute the–what they consider the racial purity of the Han Chinese.

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

We respect the individual conscience of every American on the painful issue of abortion, but believe as a matter of law that this decision should be left to a woman, her conscience, her doctor and her God. But abortion should not only be be safe and legal, it should be rare.

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

I've said time and again, I'm a pro-life candidate, I'll be a pro-life president.

All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.

I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.

I campaigned on signing the toughest abortion bill in the country.

In response to a question concerning China's policy of compulsory abortion after the first child, Molly Yard responded, "I consider the Chinese government's policy among the most intelligent in the world"

I'm pro-life but I believe that the federal government ought to stay out of it. That's a decision that the people of each state ought to make for themselves.

We're not going to spend taxpayers' money on abortion. This is an issue that divides America. But certainly reasonable people can agree on how to reduce abortions in America.

Taxpayer-funded abortion, especially the devil's bargain with Planned Parenthood, must cease immediately. To be clear, that means I believe Planned Parenthood should receive no tax monies of any kind.

Abortion on demand, throughout the full nine months of a pregnancy, for virtually any reason, became public policy in the United States of America. No other developed democracy had, or has, such a permissive abortion regime.

If Roe v. Wade were overturned tomorrow, nobody would even notice, because the states are legislating their own laws about abortion, completely independent.

”I favor leaving up to a woman and her doctor the abortion question.”