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Abortion Quotes
"Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder."
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"But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion."
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"If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters."
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"I really didn't know there was two sides to the abortion issue."
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"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."
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"Under Obama, our federal tax dollars can now be used to fund abortion all over the world. With the stroke of a pen, abortion essentially became a U.S. foreign export."
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"In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion."
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"There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion."
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"I come to urge my party to be open to debate and discussion; to move away from a lock-step litmus test which advocates abortion on demand in an effort to reach a broader national consensus."
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"By rejecting abortion-on-demand, we can move our party back to the mainstream."
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"The national Democratic Party has embraced abortion on demand. I believe this position is wrong in principle and out of the mainstream of our party's historic commitment to protecting the powerless."
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"Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents."
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"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."
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"To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license."
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"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."
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"If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies."
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"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."
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"We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out."
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"I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted."
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"I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder."
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"The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other."
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"In addition the bill would expand an existing law "conscience clause" that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures."
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"I was thrown into the Parliament right away. From 1976 to 1978 I was concerned with the abortion issue, later on with that of divorce."
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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."
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"A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe."
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"ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else."
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"If our country is to reach a workable solution to the abortion issue, the Democratic party must be open to and tolerant of opposing views."
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"My own views on abortion, I'm not on either pole of that and neither of the interest groups on either end of this issue would probably be comfortable with my views."
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