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"I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well."
"To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license."
"There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion."
"By rejecting abortion-on-demand, we can move our party back to the mainstream."
"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."
"If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters."
"In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion."
"A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe."
Explore more quotes by Stanley Fish
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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