Ronald Reagan
Politician, Actor
"I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born."
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Abortion
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Alice Paul
Suffragist, Activist
"Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women."
J. R. R. Tolkien
Novelist, Scholar
"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future."
Antonin Scalia
Judge
"The death penalty? Give me a break. It's easy. Abortion? Absolutely easy. Nobody ever thought the constitution prevented restrictions on abortion. Homosexual sodomy? Come on. For 200 years, it was criminal in every state."
J. K. Rowling
Novelist, Screenwriter
"We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving."
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"Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity."
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"Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily."
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"My own views on abortion, I'm not on either pole of that and neither of the interest groups on either end of this issue would probably be comfortable with my views."
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"Just because Congress passes a law and says it's all right to do a certain thing does not mean that it's all right to do it. Abortion is still just as wrong today as it was the first day of January, 1973."
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"How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender fetuses, although procreation is the work of God."
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"The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion."
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"If you want to prevent abortions, you make sure everyone has health care, a high school education and birth control. Not the exact opposite."
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"We cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide...t here is no cause more important for preserving that freedom than affirming the transcendent right to life of all human beings, the right without which no other rights have any meaning."
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"I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion."
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"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."
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"Abortion is profoundly anti-women."
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"One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent."
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"Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born."
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"And by the way, my belief is that if men were the ones getting pregnant, abortions would be easier to get than food poisoning in Moscow."
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"Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide."
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"Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God's will-they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths."
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"A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children."
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"It is impossible for an abortion clinic to have a waiting list of more than nine months."
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"How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelette?"
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"Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself."
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