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Abortion Quotes
"Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder."
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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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"In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion."
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"I really didn't know there was two sides to the abortion issue."
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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."
25
"By rejecting abortion-on-demand, we can move our party back to the mainstream."
25
"There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion."
24
"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."
24
"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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"Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents."
22
"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."
21
"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."
21
"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."
20
"To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license."
20
"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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"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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"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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"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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"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."
17
"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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"The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other."
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"If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies."
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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."
14
"ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else."
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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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