Best Abortion Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Women around the country rely on medicated abortion as a safe and effective way to address deeply personal health decisions. With more and more people getting their information from social media, it is vital for platforms to continue to offer critical health information.”

“Issues such as child benefit, abortion, equal pay, maternity leave, Sure Start, action against sexual harassment and more found a sisterhood of cheerleaders in female MPs.”

“I believe that we need to purge abortion from our shores for the cause of life the same way that we purged slavery for the cause of liberty.”

“You know, passing a law is one thing, and certainly I'd love to pass a law that restricts abortion.”

“Fetal humanity is the philosophical hinge on which the abortion debate turns.”

“To justify stripping women of their right to choose an abortion, Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s leaked draft opinion had to pull from all sorts of sources. The judicial screed relies on a 13th-century treatise that held women in regard 'inferior to that of men.'”

“My children have helped give me purpose and made me a better lawyer. They have shown me the power of choosing life. And they are the reason I want to fight for all the women and girls who, like me, felt immense social pressures to have an abortion.”

“The truth is, Virginians want fewer abortions, not more abortions.”

“For millions of women, health centers that provide reproductive healthcare are the only place they ever see a doctor or nurse. When abortion politics force health centers to close, women - particularly low-income women and women of color - suffer.”

“While I am passionately committed to protecting abortion access, I do not view it as a stand-alone issue.”

“Abortions are safe.”

“As a pro-life legislator, I supported the effort in the Louisiana House of Representatives to improve access to quality health care for women by placing realistic regulations on clinics performing abortions.”

“No argument for abortion survives scientific, philosophical, or theological scrutiny.”

“Why is it controversial that I chose to talk about my abortion? And the fact that I got an abortion when I was in a marriage and could have financially supported a child, why did I feel so much shame for that?”

“I'm a Brit, so I come from a country where in the run-up to a general election, no one talks about abortion.”

“I wouldn't be able to date someone who had conflicting ideas on abortion, no. Because it's every woman's right to do whatever they do.”

“Planned Parenthood can't hide their sickening abortion business behind a 'safe, legal and rare' slogan.”

“Within the paradigm of Democratic politics, even though people probably think I'm a centrist, I'm more a liberal, except for abortion.”

“A woman has a right to a safe, legal abortion. I've never wavered in that position since I was, like, eight years old and realized what was going on when I heard my mother arguing with people about the issue.”

“Americans are guaranteed the constitutional right to legal abortion in Roe v. Wade, and it's past time for Republicans to stop using the issue as a political football. In fact, it's past time for Republican politicians to stop interfering in women's personal lives, period.”

“My sorority sisters chose to use abortion as a casual form of birth control.”

“I have not changed my view about abortion, but I've changed my approach to it, because I really believe that if I'm a person who is seen as an individual who's standing on a stage pointing down at a young woman saying, 'You can't have an abortion,' that is not the right approach.”

“The womb is one of the defining features of the female animal. The defining feature of abortion, meanwhile, is a denial or negation of the womb, because its sole purpose is to stop the womb from fulfilling its normal function. Thus abortion is the ultimate negation of the female animal and therefore the ultimate misogynistic act.”

“For far too long, the abortion debate has been about political advocacy, not ideas.”

“I am much more interested in the reality that, no matter what laws are in place, abortions will happen. Once someone decides and realizes that there are so many barriers to access, what will they do?”

“I don't hide who I am as a person who believes in the sanctity of life, and I don't hide my views on abortion, but as a policy-maker, my goal is to find things that unite us and that we can agree on.”

“Abortion is going to remain safe and legal in Massachusetts, and the Commonwealth is stepping up to be a safe haven for women who are in healthcare deserts.”

“Leadership means not shying away from issues like safe abortion when the evidence shows us these services will save women's lives.”

“I believed we could expand support for Planned Parenthood - and ultimately for abortion access - by finding common ground with the large majority of Americans who can unite behind the goal of improving the health and well-being of women and children.”

“Canada has treated abortion as just another medical procedure since 1988, when the Supreme Court struck down the old criminal law. Most Canadians seem to think that's fine.”

“All political debates, from tax policy to abortion, draw on moral arguments that rest on religious premises.”

“Every time you hear that the majority of Democratic candidates go on stage, they say poor women of color need access to abortion. I was born to a poor woman of color. I was a poor woman of color when I gave birth to my children. Who's to say that their lives are worth any less than others?”

“I implore my Democratic colleagues to disregard the extreme voices of the abortion industry and radical pro-choice activists in favor of the loud, clear voice of the American people: Late-term abortion is a step too far, and post-birth abortion is horrifying.”

“I think there are enough restrictions on abortion and they're reasonable.”

“I am an activist for putting an end to the criminalisation of abortion.”

“Abortion is emotional and difficult to discuss.”

“I don't think that anyone is for abortion in the sense that you hope people are going to have abortions. You hope in an ideal world that every pregnancy is a wanted pregnancy.”

“I don't think there is a libertarian position on abortion. Maybe if you took a poll of libertarians, it might be that a majority would be pro-choice, but, the libertarian position is to protect the rights of individuals against the use of force and fraud.”

“Every woman should have access to quality health care and compassionate abortion alternatives.”

“I have always stood up to protect women's access to safe and legal abortion, birth control and health care at Planned Parenthood.”

“It's laughable to claim the pro-life label while simultaneously putting people's lives at risk because you're too stubborn to acknowledge that Medicaid doesn't fund abortions.”

“Women in America must be trusted to make their own medical decisions and have access to the full range of reproductive health care, including abortion.”

“As a candidate, Donald Trump said he would punish women for accessing abortion, and as president, he's made good on that promise by stacking the Supreme Court with anti-choice extremists Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch.”

“The only time the issue of abortion ever comes up - and you'll notice this pattern - is when there's a presidential election coming around. When there's a presidential election, all of a sudden, 'Oh my God, we care so much about the babies.'”

“I am a woman's advocate. I stand against abortion.”

“The only thing that will keep an abortion worker in the industry longer is a pro-lifer who condemns them.”

“Bottom line: Contraception does not reduce abortion.”

“I have seen women literally run into the abortion facility because someone was yelling Bible verses at them or pushing a graphic image in their faces.”

“The abortion facility in Texas where I worked for eight years closed after enough workers like me left. They closed because I finally spoke out against the terrible things I saw, the deceit I participated in, and the unsanitary practices common to many abortion facilities.”

“An important part of my story is that I didn't walk out of Planned Parenthood immediately after witnessing the ultrasound-guided abortion. It is made to appear that way in the film, 'Unplanned,' because they are trying to fit 10 years of my life into an hour-and-a-half-long movie.”

“Abortion is a severely traumatic and potentially dangerous procedure.”

“Planned Parenthood doesn't care about women's health care needs; it cares about abortion.”

“The abortion industry is interested in nothing but the bottom line.”

“My personal opinion is that life begins at the point of conception, and abortion is morally indefensible.”

“On Capitol Hill and in state houses across the country, anti-women's health politicians continue to make it clear that they will stop at nothing to end access to a safe, legal abortion.”

“The Hyde Amendment might prohibit federal dollars from directly funding abortion, but federal money is used elsewhere in Planned Parenthood, which allows other funds to be used for abortion.”

“One of the strangest unintended consequences of abortion, of legalized abortion, was that it drives the crime rate down because what abortion really was, was a mechanism for which fewer unwanted children could be born.”

“I support Donald Trump, but I also support abortion and a women's right to choice, what to do with their body.”

“I believe that abortion is the taking of human life.”

“There was a time that I questioned the government's role in abortion.”

“Stoutly pro-tax-cut and libertarian on social issues like abortion, Trump is a Republican with the business know-how to turn the country's economy around.”

“Liberty University will not lend its name or financial support to undermine marriage or to promote abortion.”

“I think abortion is a settled issue in New York.”

“If a woman chooses to have an abortion, it is legal to do that in this country, but I don't think taxpayers should be put in a position to have to pay for those abortions.”

“I have taken the position, which is quite common among Catholics - I have got a personal feeling about abortion, but the right rule for government is to let women make their own decisions.”

“Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his hosts, to antiabortion rallies on the Mall.”

“I never go anywhere and encourage people to get married to someone of the same gender or to have abortions - the issue never comes up.”

“Rather than dull our consciences to the unmitigated violence of abortion, the passage of time has only enabled us to see and, frankly, better understand the innate cruelty of abortion and its horrific legacy - victims - while making us more determined than ever to protect the weakest and the most vulnerable.”

“The thing is, one in three women in the Western world will end up having an abortion, but they never talk about it. When you keep silent about that stuff, it is because you are embarrassed by the societal distaste of the topic.”

“I think there are brilliant jokes to be made about abortion, and we should be able to talk about this in the way that we make jokes about death - you should be able to make jokes about everything.”

“That said, I can't emphasise enough - and I hope you print this - that I absolutely don't judge anybody at all who has an abortion, nor do I think they are murderers, nor do I think they are baby killers.”

“I get asked this question a lot. Am I really pro-life? Am I against abortion in all circumstances? Yes. Do I believe there are any exceptions for abortion? No. Do you want to make abortion illegal? Yes.”

“I know I'm a smart person, and yet I was duped by the abortion industry for eight years. Why did it take so long for me to see the truth? I don't know.”

“I wish I had a dollar for every pro-choicer who told me that abortion has to be accessible for poor women... as if being poor makes you an unfit mother.”

“When I worked for Planned Parenthood, we had a specific protocol that we had to follow when picking up our abortion doctor. Looking back, I realize how crazy this was, but at the time, I felt like I was a part of some super secret high-level security task force.”

“I didn't grow up believing that abortion was a good choice for women, but since it was legal, I thought it must be okay.”

“The testimony of former abortion workers can help persuade lawmakers to create fair laws that protect women from dirty abortion facilities.”

“As a person who worked in the abortion industry for eight years, I can say unequivocally that the most manipulation I have ever witnessed was inside the walls of the abortion clinic.”

“Why do I leave the March for Life every year happier than when I came? Hope and gratefulness are the reasons. Gratefulness for the life we have and the life we've given and hope for the future, to live in a world where abortion becomes unthinkable.”

“Women - and those who love them - need to know the truth about abortion facilities.”

“I campaigned on signing the toughest abortion bill in the country.”

“In 1973, the Roe v. Wade decision concluded that women have a constitutionally protected right to safe and legal abortions. That landmark decision wasn't the beginning of women having abortions; it was the end of women dying from abortions.”

“Let's face it: when it comes to denying access to abortion care and reproductive rights, especially for low-income women with limited resources, there's no limit to how far some are willing to go.”

“Wishy-washy equivocations - and not just on abortion, but on immigration, on civil rights, on income inequality - weaken all of us.”

“I believe that if Democrats - not any one Democrat, and certainly not just me - want to start winning races again, Lujan's statement that the DCCC would fund candidates who oppose abortion rights puts our country in danger and makes it all the more likely that the Republicans will continue to defeat us in election after election.”

“I think it would be great if in 50 years you could find out lots more about the conditions your child is going to have - and if we lived in a society that is so tolerant that many things that might now lead to abortion would then be seen as part of human variance.”

“Abortion is wrong. I think everyone knows that, which is why abortion activists are so angry all the time. It's a bit like when you catch someone out in a lie, and they get really mad at you really quickly, and you can't work out why until later. It's guilt.”

“Really, given that God does judge nations, it's amazing that abortion has run as far and foully as it has without what I would consider to be a greater imposition of judgment on this country. Who knows what the future holds?”

“I had three abortions because I was certain that it would be a disaster for my work.”

“We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision, and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, and, moreover, it's good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary.”

“When the Left doesn't want to make abortion the issue, they say you're being against minorities.”

“I certainly don't think that taxpayers should subsidize abortions.”

“You can't claim to be pro-life and then vote to remove the restrictions that prevented government-funded abortions in the District of Columbia.”

“I don't mean to be trite about abortion, but I do feel it's a woman's body, and I don't think anyone should take away her choice of having or not having a child.”

“Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions.”

“In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman.”

“The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.”

“I am an adamant feminist. It never occurred to me to take my husband's name when we married. I am a supporter of abortion rights, of equal pay for equal work, of the rights of women prisoners, of all the time-honored feminist causes, and then some.”

“I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.”

“I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.”