#abortion

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. ↗

— Nancy Reagan

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Abortion's a private decision. But I just think it shouldn't be federalized. ↗

— Pat Robertson

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To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license. ↗

— Robert Casey

#america #does #establish #general #general welfare

A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust. ↗

— Robert Casey

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However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life. ↗

— Robert Casey

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Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to choose an abortion was a privacy right protected by our Constitution. ↗

— Robert Casey

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First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

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I personally am opposed to abortion, but I will not judge anybody else's right in that regard because I am not a woman and I could never face the actual reality of it. ↗

— Martin Sheen

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A consequentialist or utilitarian is likely to approach the abortion question in a very different way, by trying to weigh up suffering. Does the embryo suffer? (Presumably not if it is aborted before it has a nervous system; and even if it is old enough to have a nervous system it surely suffers less than, say, an adult cow in a slaughterhouse.) Does the pregnant woman, or her family, suffer if she does not have an abortion? Very possibly so; and, in any case, given that the embryo lacks a nervous system, shouldn't the mother's well-developed nervous system have the choice? ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#family

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#love #selfishness #usa #violence #love