Access to Abortion Quotes

We can't afford to compromise on anything we have fought for - abortion is legal in our country, and I will do everything in my power to stand up for the rights of women and all people to choose when and how they build a family.

There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.

Women who become pregnant through rape or incest should not qualify for government-funded abortions unless their pregnancy is life-threatening.

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.

We've had a very consistent position down the years. Sinn Fein is not in favour of abortion, and we resisted any attempt to bring the British 1967 Abortion Act to the north.

Women in America must be trusted to make their own medical decisions and have access to the full range of reproductive health care, including abortion.

Every 36 seconds in America a woman lays her body down forced to choose abortion out of a lack of practical resources and emotional support. Abortion is a reflection that society has failed women.

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.

I think abortion is a settled issue in New York.

If you're out of touch with the pro-choice majority, you're out of office.

I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again. What criminalization will do is force women into garages and back alleys, and then you're going to have two lives in jeopardy. My mom, who was a nurse, used to talk about the messes that would come in after back-alley abortions went wrong. The way to stop abortion is to deal, philosophically and spiritually, with the people who get them. And that's not something government can touch.

Women who have abortions are people you know. Because that is the truth! One in three American women will have an abortion by menopause.

While Texas women have the right to safe, legal abortion, in reality there are already very few facilities in Texas to provide this essential care. In 2008, 92 percent of Texas counties had no abortion provider.

When the Left doesn't want to make abortion the issue, they say you're being against minorities.

However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.

Section 251 [restricting abortion] of the Criminal Code would be immediately repealed if we could magically turn on the light in the House of Commons to see how many Members of Parliament, in one way or another, have been personally connected with abortion—for their wives, their daughters, or mistresses.

Thanks in part to Swedish research, home abortion is now predictively safe and effective and preferred by women around the globe. America is the exception.

And by the way, my belief is that if men were the ones getting pregnant, abortions would be easier to get than food poisoning in Moscow.

Democrats: The party that can't wait to fund every abortion in the world.

In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.

Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.

The only reason we have late abortions is because we make early abortion difficult.

We all know that if we repeal Roe v. Wade tomorrow …, we would condemn thousands of young women to illegal and dangerous operations.

We cannot allow an out-of-control Supreme Court working in conjunction with extremist elements of the Republican Party to take away freedoms and our personal autonomy.