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"I really didn't know there was two sides to the abortion issue."
"But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion."
"Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder."
"My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm - as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy."
"They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion."
"A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe."
"I am fairly certain that my abortion position hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, where turnout is relatively low, liberal voters turn out in disproportionately large numbers and thus exercise a disproportionate influence on the outcome."
Explore more quotes by Stanley Fish
"We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn."
"It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories."
"Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply."
"I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me."
"It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are."
"In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective."
"Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved."
"I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact."
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