Abortion quotes

"A woman's right to choose is not negotiable."

-- Anita Anand, Canadian MP (September 28, 2024)

"No one owes you abstinence because abortion makes you sad."

-- Anne Flake (April 16, 2024; source: Twitter posting)

"Abortion is a blessing."

-- Anne Nicol Gaylor, co-founder of the Freedom from Religion Foundation and founder of the Wisconsin Committee to Legalize Abortion

"Abortion is health care."

-- Bernie Sanders (January 24, 2020; source: Twitter posting)

"If men could get pregnant abortions would be available at Jiffy Lube."

-- Betty White

"I don't express opinions about what men, as a class, should or shouldn't do with their bodies.  Men get to have a say about abortion the day that they can get pregnant [and] Men get to have a say about abortion the day that they can pass an object the size of a watermelon through an opening the size of a lemon."

-- Brenda Nelson, EAC Professor of Feline Thermometrics and Cat-Herding (source: alt.atheism newsgroup)

"I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life.  As a species, we've fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don't believe in the sanctity of life.  The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain, and lifelong, grinding poverty show us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we've made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred."

-- Caitlin Moran

"Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive."

-- Camille Paglia

"Abortion is a morally neutral action; rape isn't."

-- Cat, a.k.a., Catopuma Badia (May 13, 2024)

"Abortion is awesome."

-- Cat, a.k.a., Catopuma Badia (June 16, 2024)

"Abortions, like guns, are a blessing.  Both are used in self defence."

-- Dean (March 8, 2023; source: Twitter posting)

"When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes."

-- Earl Warren, 14th Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court

"Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State."

-- Edward Abbey

"I am a feminist and I am totally pro-choice, but what's funny is when you say that people assume that you are pro-abortion.  I don't love abortion, but I want women to be able to choose, and I don't want white dudes in an office being able to make laws on things like this.  I mean, what are we going to do -- go back to clothes hangers?"

-- Ellen Page

"American women are not stupid — and we are not going to trust the futures of our daughters and granddaughters to Donald Trump and JD Vance, who have openly bragged about blocking access to abortion."

-- Elizabeth Warren (August 25, 2024; source: Twitter posting)

"If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament."

-- Florynce Kennedy

"No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche.  She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg."

-- Frederica Mathewes-Green

"How come when it's us, it's an abortion, and when it's a chicken, it's an omelet?  Are we so much better than chickens all of a sudden?"

-- George Carlin

"The right to privacy is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy."

-- Harry Andrew Blackmun

"I am not pro-abortion any more than I am pro-appendectomy."

-- Henry Morgentaler

"Why would God be allowed to take away our potential children in his abortion method, but we aren't allowed to have an abortion in our method?"

-- Hey Bella (March 25, 2024; source: Twitter posting)

"This issue about access to abortion and contraception are issues that go right to the heart of privacy and freedom."

-- Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (October 13, 2022; at Planned Parenthood's office in San Francisco, California, USA)

"I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women; I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion."

-- Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton

"Women abort for many reasons...

• I don't want to be a mom
• I can't afford it
• My mental health and body can't handle it
• The father is an abuser/rapist/not-present

"No reason and any reason is ENOUGH.
"Don't let anyone tell you your reason is wrong.
"I will not for any reason continue an unwanted pregnancy.  No amount of emotional pleading and guilt tripping will change my feelings and my mind.  Say whatever you want.&nbps; It doesn't matter."

-- Iris Thalia (July 6, 2024)

"I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life.  In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed ... and why would I think that you don't?  Because you don't want any tax money to go there.  That's not pro-life; that's pro-birth -- we need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is."

-- Joan Daugherty Chittister, O.S.B. (Order of St. Benedict)

"Abortion foes never want to admit the fact they won't confront: Those unviable tissues that they treasure are not babies by any measure."

-- Joyce Banda (source: alt.atheism newsgroup)

"You really think women actually want an abortion?  I mean of course you don't want one, nobody wants an abortion, that's so stupid, but if it's necessary it's necessary, and it's nobody else's business."

-- Just 'N' Earthling, a.k.a., JstNEarthling (April 15, 2010; source: alt.atheism newsgroup)

"Abortion foes never want
    To admit the fact they won't confront:
Those unviable tissues that they treasure
    Are not babies by any measure."

-- Kenneth S. Spalding (source: alt.atheism newsgroup)

"One does not have to abandon their faith, or deeply held beliefs, to agree the government and Donald Trump certainly should not be telling a woman what to do with her body."

-- Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States of America

"The punishment for god's failure was passed on to Eve."

-- Kester Lowers (July 18, 2024)

"It's a devastating blow to womens' rights and womens' choice, and it's something that, unfortunately, we're going to have to fight [for] to get back."

-- Kim Cattrell on Roe v. Wade being struck down by the US Supreme Court

"[Donald] Trump said there won't be a national abortion ban the way his Supreme Court nominees said they wouldn't overturn Roe v. Wade."

-- Lynda Carter (September 10, 2024; source: Twitter posting)

"No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body."

-- Margaret Sanger

"None of your arguments entitle others to the use of a woman's body without her consent."

-- Pamela Bradley (July 9th, 2024; source: Twitter posting)

"Modern Christian: Someone who can take time out from complaining about 'welfare mothers popping out babies we have to feed' to complain about welfare mothers getting abortions that PREVENT more babies to be raised at public expense."

-- Paul David Wright (source: alt.atheism newsgroup)

"The anti-abortion/forced-birther people don't want any women to have self-mastery because they want mastery over all women.
"The time of mistreating women as chattel, which is a relic of the horrors of human history, is over. Ancient people must not dictate how people live today."

-- Randolf Richardson (May 7, 2024)

"The question of whether 'abortion is moral' doesn't make sense because a person's womb is not an appropriate battlefield for philosophical debate -- at best it's an intrusion that doesn't belong there, just like a foetus doesn't belong when the pregnant person doesn't want it."

-- Randolf Richardson (September 6, 2024)

"Women from all walks of life deserve reproductive healthcare options, like abortion, because the human-right-and-freedom of bodily autonomy is a fundamental entitlement of self-mastery for every person anywhere."

-- Randolf Richardson (July 8, 2024)

"While I can't speak for all atheists, I for one really don't care if someone literally believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old.  It's tragic that one wants to choose these ways of thinking, but who cares, right?  Well, the problem is that many religious lobbies want to enact legislation to curb condom usage, prevent funding for stem cell research, ban abortions, and turn a woman's body into a crime scene for getting one (even if raped).  Why?  Because their sky god told them to pass these laws."

-- Reza Ziai (July 28, 2013; source: alt.atheism newsgroup)

"The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman's life, to her well-being and dignity.  When the government controls that decision for her, she is being treated as less than a full adult human responsible for her own choices."

-- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice of the US Supreme Court

"If there really was a 'god' who wanted abortion to be illegal, don't you think that she would simply stop making the *overwhelming majority* of fertilized eggs end with a spontaneous abortion, and also stop making medical abortions so much safer than carrying a pregnancy to term?"

-- Ryan Marino, M.D. (May 25, 2024; source: Twitter posting)

"Consent to sex is consent to abortion."

-- Skeptic Hat (June 7, 2023; source: Twitter posting)

"I am very very pro-choice!"

-- Stormy Daniels (June 25, 2013; source: Playboy Magazine)

"In my opinion 'choice' is one of the most important things one can have.  If not, then people are practically treated as slaves.  And if women don't have the choice of what to do with their own bodies, it means they have fewer rights than corpses."

-- Tessa (June 21, 2024)

"Why is it that when it's a chicken it's called an omelet, and when it's a human it's called abortion?"

-- Uriah Christensen (April 2, 2017; source: alt.atheism newsgroup)