Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.
Quotes about abortions (16 Quotes)
By the time I was in high school, Roe v. Wade had passed, so that was also happening; girls were getting pregnant and getting abortions - and that happened in my school too.
Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.
The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
It's one of the few areas that the U. S. Supreme Court has allowed states to legislate, so it's become a key for lowering the abortion rate. My opinion, the laws have a significant impact on the number of abortions minors have.
Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.
Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases.
Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions.
This deceptive and extreme measure sacrifices women's health in the name of a broad anti-choice agenda to demonize abortion. The federal government has no business making it a crime for doctors to provide the best care possible to women who need abortions.
The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?
For nearly 2,000 years of Christian civilization, taking the life of an unborn child was regarded as a vile and heinous moral offense which degraded humanity.... Abortions to avoid illegitimate births, or otherwise for convenience, were performed with a secrecy that was as much the mark of the shame attaching to the deed as a consequence of its illegality.
Listen to these wounds of pain put in the form of questions to me by a young woman who had had two abortions 'I wonder about the spirits of those I had aborted, if they were there, if they were hurt I was under three months each time, but a mother feels life before she feels movement.' 'I wonder if they are lost and alone' 'I wonder if they will ever have a body' 'I wonder if I will ever have a chance again to bring those spirits back as mine' Alas, brothers and sisters, 'wickedness never was happiness' (Alma 4110).
As I see with Lori's testimony, you say what good could come out of all these abortions and all what she's been through? But she has been a part of a new Bible for women, a mentoring Bible.
They may say some things that bear on abortions generally, either cutting back severely on a woman's right to have an abortion in all kinds of circumstances or perhaps -- and this is less likely -- abolishing the right to have an abortion completely.
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.