Abortion Quotes

“It's the mark of a backward society - or a society moving backward - when decisions are made for women by men.”
― Melinda Gates, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

“There's no way to win. You're a monster if you get an abortion, a slut if you had sex, a moron if you decide to keep the baby.”
― Sharon Biggs Waller, Girls on the Verge

“Contraceptives save the lives of mothers and newborns. Contraceptives also reduce abortion. As a result of contraceptive use, there were 26 million fewer unsafe abortions in the world’s poorest countries in just one year, according to the most recent data.”
― Melinda Gates, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

“Abortion is...
One more heart that will never beat again.
Two more eyes that will never see light.
Two more hands that will never touch or feel.
Two more legs that will never run for miles.
Two more lips that will never speak a word.
One more mouth that will never know a smile.”
― Queen Susan the Gentle's friend

“Abortion is legal almost everywhere, not because people all over the world love to kill babies for fun, but because a fetus is not a baby.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, How to Defeat the Trump Cult: Want to Save Democracy? Share This Book

“Truth is abortion's biggest enemy. That's why no defender of abortion actually defends abortion. They defend "reproductive rights" and "women's healthcare," which are deceptive euphemisms for what they're actually defending: the murder of baby humans. The reason is, deep down, everyone knows that abortion is murder, so the only way to defend such an obviously evil act is by distracting themselves and others from the reality of it.”
― David Wilber

“I cannot tell you how often I have counseled a grieving woman about a miscarriage or an abortion from years before. There were so many reasons why it was not practical or reasonable to have a child, so on a rational level there was often an understanding and acceptance. However, this did not relieve the pain and guilt of losing a child. In trance states we would often go looking for that soul. What a surprise for many when they discovered that this soul came back as a niece, nephew or even a younger child of their own.”
― Stephen Poplin, Inner Journeys, Cosmic Sojourns: Life transforming stories, adventures and messages from a spiritual hypnotherapist's casebook

“One can abort a potential child, but this will not harm the soul, who will seek another more appropriate time or person. Thus, abortion is not an issue for souls; it is more painful for the women on earth, and usually this anguish is more entwined with belief and conditioning than many realize. When I have come across a sad or upset soul in the womb, it is most often due to the parent(s) not wanting the child but having it (the burden) anyway. This is hurtful, and even damaging. We all want to be welcomed, to be loved, wanted and cherished.”
― Stephen Poplin, Inner Journeys, Cosmic Sojourns: Life transforming stories, adventures and messages from a spiritual hypnotherapist's casebook

“One of our most serious challenges is that we mature sexually way before we do mentally. And what’s worse is that mental maturity is not even guaranteed.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Careful to devalue life in your youth. The young may very well devalue you when you are old.”
― A.E. Samaan

“A woman’s right to choose — yes, I believed in that, theoretically and actually. Though I also believed in a man’s right to be consulted.”
― Julian Barnes, The Only Story

“-"We can go everywhere."
-"No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore."
-"It's ours."
-No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Dear men in Congress,
You think banning birth control is conservative progress?
You think sanctioning my ovaries won’t bring me to violence?
How about I tell you what to do with your caucus?
It is now illegal to think about me topless.
To keep your lotion where your socks is.
To refer to powerful women as monsters like those jocks at Fox did.”
― Amber Tamblyn, Dark Sparkler

“And what if she doesn't want to tell her story? What if it's too personal, too painful? What do these confessions really do? Some people will be moved, but those are rarely the same people who support legislation to erode reproductive freedom. Immovable people will not moved by testimony. Her story becomes an emotional spectacle, something for people to consider, briefly, before moving on to the next sad story. There is no shortage of sad stories when it comes to women and their reproductive lives.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“Social policy that is coercive is the beginning of a police state.”
― Rebecca Todd Peters, Trust Women: A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive Justice

“Thirty minutes feels like forever when you're standing in a hot alley with abortion pills under your tongue.”
― Sharon Biggs Waller, Girls on the Verge

“Abortion is normal, it's okay to be fat and women don't have to be nice to you.”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

“In the waning decades of the twentieth century, liberals and conservatives alike cast the lingering divisions of the 1960s less as matters of law and order than as matters of life and death. Either abortion was murder and guns meant freedom or guns meant murder and abortion was freedom. How this sorted out came to depend upon party affiliation.”
― Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States

“Even the most mundane, establishment-oriented law schools routinely teach that important legal cases lag far behind the social movements that create them,' writes Judith Brown, a 1968 women's liberation founder who became a lawyer. She continues: 'Supreme Court cases bob along behind social reality like little rowboats towed behind huge gun-ships... When we celebrate Roe v. Wade we celebrate--not the legal opinion of nine men in D.C.--but the thousands of women who forced a change so that what was once illegal became legal.”
― Jenny Brown

“It did not occur to me that the Supreme Court was about to declare, in effect, that some human beings (the Court, interestingly, does not deny the unborn child's humanity) are not persons --- just as an earlier Court had refused to grant "full" personhood to blacks, just as Hitler's Germany had considered Jews and certain other human beings no more than "useless eaters", and just as societies throughout history have rationalized their cruelty toward various elements of society by defining them out of equality.”
― Paul Marx, The Death Peddlers War on the Unborn

“To be unwanted is not to be unworthy, is not to be worthless. Because unwanted, the unborn child does not deserve death.”
― Paul Marx, The Death Peddlers War on the Unborn

“When abortion is pushed into the dustbin of history, then and only then, will 'all lives matter' -- including the black ones.”
― Horace Cooper, How Trump Is Making Black America Great Again: The Untold Story of Black Advancement in the Era of Trump

“It bears repeating that for every 1,000 black babies born, 477 are murdered in their mother's womb. That's a 32% kill rate. Lynching has nothing on Planned Parenthood.”
― Kathy Barnette, Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: Being Black and Conservative in America

“Since it's inception, abortion has killed over eighteen-million black people in the United States. That's over a third of the black population today.”
― Kathy Barnette, Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: Being Black and Conservative in America

“The fetus wished to live. Stubbornly, sometimes astonishingly-the fetus struggled to live. But the power of its life-or its death-had to reside with the mother. No other alternative was possible.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, A Book of American Martyrs

“The prime and ultimate philosophical question has to do with the nature and destiny of man, Camus once wrote. And surely the nature of the embryo/fetus should be at the heart of any serious discussion of the ethic and morality of abortion. Here, not to define is to define; to ignore is to deny. When abortionists ignore the human manifestations of the developing baby, as established by genetics and microbiology, they define him out of the human race.”
― Paul Marx, The Death Peddlers War on the Unborn

“Biologically speaking, the character of an animal depends on its chromosomal content, not on its size, shape, age, or stage of development. Any organism with the chromosomes and genes proper to a human being can be nothing less than a human being. Human life exists only in human beings, and all human beings are persons.”
― Paul Marx, The Death Peddlers War on the Unborn

“For just as it is impossible for anyone to be any more or less human at any stage of his own existence, so it is impossible for him to be either more or less human than any other human being. Thus, in essentials the unborn child is the same as you and I, differing from us only in such non-essentials as size and ability, even as you and I differ from each other without lessening the humanity of either.

So it is in recognition of their common and invisible humanity that we say all men are equal, subordinating to that equality all the differences in degree between one person and another. And it is because of their common humanity, with its attendant dignity and uniqueness, that we say men may not be used as a means to an end, may not be enslaved or otherwise exploited, may not be killed for the sake of expediency.

In the light of this understanding of equality, it is impossible to justify the abortion movement, which would make the differences of the unborn child the basis for denying him the equal protection of the law. If lack of maturity makes him expendable, in principle there is nothing to prevent our declaring that other deficiencies make other persons expendable. Our enslavement of the blacks resulted from just such a denial of their full humanity. The Nazi atrocities resulted from calling an entire people defective by birth. The early settlers of Australia systematically shot the Aborigines for the land and resources they coveted. Defining preborn children out of the human race is no less illogical and callous.”
― Paul Marx, The Death Peddlers War on the Unborn

“I stället ställde hon den fråga som flöt under alla de andra frågorna som en djup underjordisk flod. »Var jag önskad?«”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

“I think abortion is something you're supposed to do before you get pregnant.”
― Dmitry Dyatlov