#abortion

I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#been #done #enacted #even #heard

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#about #among #applying #catholics #death

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

— Pat Robertson

#decision #i #just #private #think

In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#desperate #economic #economic times #goes #people

In my world, you don’t get to call yourself “pro-life” and be against common-sense gun control — like banning public access to the kind of semiautomatic assault rifle, designed for warfare, that was used recently in a Colorado theater. You don’t get to call yourself “pro-life” and want to shut down the Environmental Protection Agency, which ensures clean air and clean water, prevents childhood asthma, preserves biodiversity and combats climate change that could disrupt every life on the planet. You don’t get to call yourself “pro-life” and oppose programs like Head Start that provide basic education, health and nutrition for the most disadvantaged children...The term “pro-life” should be a shorthand for respect for the sanctity of life. But I will not let that label apply to people for whom sanctity for life begins at conception and ends at birth. What about the rest of life? Respect for the sanctity of life, if you believe that it begins at conception, cannot end at birth. ↗

— Thomas L. Friedman

#educational-system #environmental-protection #gun-control #life #pro-choice

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#any #both #cell #cell research #completely

The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion. ↗

— Robin Morgan

#affecting #against #birth #birth control #carries

The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug. ↗

— Patty Murray

#bar #birth #birth control #control #fda

The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#biggest #biggest obstacle #each #mixing #nothing

A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important. ↗

— Robert Reich

#attention #been #divisive #economic #economic values