"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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"Unless and until it can be proven that an unborn child is not a living human being, can we justify assuming without proof that it isn't? No one has yet offered such proof; indeed, all the evidence is to the contrary."
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"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."
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"With humans it's abortion, but with chickens it's an omelet."
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"Abortion is murder in the womb...A child is a gift of God. If you do not want him, give him to me."
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"I would never want to vilify somebody who considered abortion murder. I was an illegitimate child myself. I may not have existed today."
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"Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from the beginning of Western Civilization; an insult to the principles of our Declaration of Independence; a bane of our national spirit; and a stench in the nostrils of Almighty God."
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"If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility."
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"If you gave a bag of potato chips to the guy who invented Pringles, he'd look at you like you were trying to hand him an abortion."
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"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
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"I am against abortion; I think that life is sacred and we should take a position of being against abortion. I think it is wrong to take human life. I think that human life starts at conception."
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"Abortion is an attack on the family and the humanity that unites us all."
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"Somebody who should have been born is gone."
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"Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense."
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"If you want to get an audience quiet, just say "abortion" and everybody shuts up and the tension in the room is spectacular."
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"The goal of the right is not to stop abortion but to demonize it, punish it and make it as difficult and traumatic as possible. All this it has accomplished fairly well, even without overturning Roe v. Wade ."
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