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"In addition, the bill passed by the House requires a person performing an abortion on a minor from a different state to notify one parent in the home state."
"How come when it's us, it's an abortion, and when it's a chicken, it's an omelette? Are we so much better than chickens all of a sudden? When did this happen; that we passed chickens in goodness? Name six ways we're better than chickens. See, nobody can do it! You know why? 'Cause chickens are decent people."
"Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman's womb nor cause it to be born; that is wholly the work of God."
"Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign. ... You must weep that your own government, at present, seems blind to this truth."
"The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive."
"To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears."
"If the virgin Mary had an abortion, I'd still be carried in a chariot of stampeding horses."
"Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions."
"Catholics are against abortions. Catholics are against homosexuals. But, I can't think of anyone who has less abortions than homosexuals!"
"It's alright all of us all living saying 'oh well there's enough of us so we won't have anymore, don't let anybody else live.' I don't believe in that."
"By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems."
"The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign."
"No one is pro-abortion."
"It's very clear that we are going to have 10 different [abortion] laws and that we are going to have these laws made by judges"
"Now let me get this straight. Bush is anti-abortion, but pro-death penalty. I guess it's all in the timing, huh?"
"I'll tell you how to solve this abortion thing...Those unwanted babies...? Leave about 12 of them on the Supreme Court steps."
"In the 21st Century, the anti-traditional marriage community is in league with the anti-life community, and together with the NAACP and other sympathizers, they are seeking a world where homosexual marriage and abortion will supposedly set the captives free."
"I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion."
"The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion"