Together, we will protect the sanctity of life, ensuring early next Congress that no federal funds are used for abortion.
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.
To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out.
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.
Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life.
The conservatives on the Rehnquist Court never saw a restriction on abortion that it didn’t like.
We can adhere to the Henry Hyde amendment by saying that no federal funds will be used for abortions. And that's the bottom line for me.
We have an anti-choice president, an anti-choice House and Senate. They might pass a national ban. It's already virtually impossible for people in some areas to get an abortion.
So the effect of this Republican provision to allow doctors to be gagged from even discussing abortion with their patients is outrageous.
I certainly would like to prevent, if I could legally, anybody having an abortion, a rich woman, a middle-class woman, or a poor woman. Unfortunately, the only vehicle available is the…Medicaid bill.
I do not like abortions. I will do everything in my power to restrict abortion.
In addition, the bill passed by the House requires a person performing an abortion on a minor from a different state to notify one parent in the home state.
I believe abortion should be available to everyone, but the law should be changed. In the past I voted for a restriction to 22 weeks, and I would be prepared to go down to 20.
