Best Quotations on Abortion

Abortion leads to an appalling trivialization of the act of procreation.
- Donald Coggan (1909 - 2000), British bishop.

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.
- Alice Walker, U.S. novelist and poet.

Abortions will not let you forget.
You remember the children you got that you did not get.
- Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000), U.S. poet and novelist.

Contrary to the folklore of abortion as life-long trauma, it is not necessarily a profoundly scarring one either.
- Helen Dudar, U.S. writer.

From the moment of conception, the life of every human being is to be respected in an absolute way...no one can, in any circumstance, claim for himself the right to destroy directly an innocent human being.
- Paul VI (1897 - 1978), Italian pope.

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
- Florynce R. Kennedy (1916 - 2000), U.S. lawyer and activist, 1973.

I'm opposed to abortion because I happen to believe that life deserves the protection of society.
- Ella Grasso (1919 - 1989), U.S. politician.

Most women decide to have abortions reluctantly, and with trepidation, as the lesser of two evils. No woman has an abortion for fun.
- Joan Smith, British writer and journalist.

Some women behave like harlots; when they feel the life of a child in their wombs, they induce herbs or other means to cause miscarriage, only to perpetuate their amusement and unchastity. Therefore I shall deprive them from everlasting life and send them to everlasting death.
- Saint Bridget of Sweden (1303 - 1373), Swedish visionary.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child what is left but for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910 - 1997), Albanian-born Roman Catholic nun.

The "immorality" of women, favorite theme of misogynists, is not to be wondered at; how could they fail to feel an inner mistrust of the presumptuous principles that men publicly proclaim and secretly disregard?…The one thing they are sure of is this rifled and bleeding womb, the shreds of crimson life, this child that is not there. It is at her first abortion that woman begins to "know."
- Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986), French writer and feminist theorist.

This right of privacy...is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.
- Harry A. Blackmun (1908 - 1999), U.S. associate justice of the Supreme Court.Said during a Supreme Court decision in the Roe v. Wade case concerning the right to abortion, ruling that a woman's right to abortion was constitutionally protected.

Until that day when women, and only women, shall determine which American males must, by law, have vasectomies, then—and only then—will you or any man have the right to determine which American women can have abortions.
- Betty Beale, journalist.