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Today, more than ever, we cannot take our right to reproductive freedom for granted. Anti-choice forces are moving full steam ahead to not only take away a woman's right to choose an abortion but to limit access to birth control and other important reproductive health care.

This no longer puts the abortion issue in the abstract with the Supreme Court. This is as live a controversy as you can get.

As the record shows, I have supported every one of President Bush's nominees in the Judiciary Committee and on the Senate floor. I have never and would never apply any litmus test on the abortion issue and, as the record shows, I have voted to confirm Chief Justice (William) Rehnquist, Justice (Sandra Day) O'Connor, and Justice (Anthony) Kennedy and led the fight to confirm Justice (Clarence) Thomas.

The women of South Dakota will still be able to access safe and legal abortion as this case works its way through the court system.

The video is having a positive impact. A lot of kids are talking about it. It's awesome because (Cannon) spit it in a way that everybody can relate to and embrace, whether they believe abortion is wrong or not.

It would be very difficult, and I said this to you privately and I said it publicly, for me to vote to confirm someone whom I knew would overturn Roe v. Wade, because I remember - and many of the young women here don't - what it was like when abortion was illegal in America,

It would be a real stretch to claim this purely factual statement about how our court system operates is indicative of how Judge Roberts would address the abortion issue, or any other issue.

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.

South Dakota has made abortion a criminal act.

Once you know the realities of abortion and what goes along with it, it stays with you. I've seen the clinic's freezer, full of fetuses." ()

This is the frontline abortion case in the country.

This is the front-line abortion case in the country.

This is potentially an earthquake, because there is no doubt that this law conflicts with Roe v. Wade. It is completely contradictory to what the current law on abortion is.

This is a case in which substantial damage could be done to abortion rights without anyone seriously being able to claim that Roe v. Wade is in danger.

A lot of Republicans think there's enough controversy on the table anyway, without having to add the abortion issue.

They may say some things that bear on abortions generally, either cutting back severely on a woman's right to have an abortion in all kinds of circumstances or perhaps -- and this is less likely -- abolishing the right to have an abortion completely.

It is truly surprising that the state must assign a greater value to a mother's decision to cut off a potential human life by abortion than to a father's decision to let it mature into a live child.

For 20 years or so there had been a movement to chip away at Roe v Wade by adding barriers to abortion access. But now it seems that conservatives are emboldened by the new make-up of the supreme court and are trying a new approach by directly challenging Roe.

It's pretty clear that Eliot Spitzer's position is that abortion is fine anytime, anyplace and for anybody.

The best piece of evidence that's been published was actually quite a large, 2004 Oxford study that is a re-analysis from 53 studies, including 83,000 women from 16 countries, ... And they concluded abortion did not increase a woman's risk.

It's yet to be determined how Roberts will deal with important decisions. I don't know his position on issues like stem-cell research, abortion or affirmative action. These are things that someone may attempt to bring to the Supreme Court.

A partial-birth abortion is a surgical procedure during which the unborn fetus is partially delivered, an intrauterine cranial decompression is performed ... and then the dead fetus is delivered.

The Mexican government needs to ensure that rape victims do not have to endure dangerous back-alley abortions or imposed pregnancies. A public official who fails to inform rape victims of how they can obtain a voluntary legal abortion is contributing to a human rights violation and should be disciplined.

In cases where people are requesting asylum based on politics or a particular social group, he's very strict. Is someone fleeing forced abortion more deserving of protection than someone fleeing political persecution?

In all statistical data, Alabama is the most conservative state in the Southeast. If abortion can be stopped, it can be stopped in Alabama.

I'm not a girl, I'm a guy you know? But at the same time, I tell ya how you can solve this abortion issue right now. Ready? Those unwanted babies that single moms leave in alleys and in dumpsters? Leave about 12 of those on the steps of The Supreme Court. This is over. Like that. 'You guys said we had to have them? Then you guys...F***ING RAISE 'EM. Raise 'em then, you f***ing raise 'em. YOU raise 'em. You said I had to have it? Then it's yours. F**k. It's yours..Take it.'

I'm pretty sure that this development will actually be bad for the Republicans. When the topic is defense, the Democrats lose. When it's sex, the Republicans lose. And the abortion debate will, I think, turn into a sex debate before it's over.

If you believe abortion is a lethal force, you should oppose the force and do what you have to do to stop it. May God help you to protect the unborn as you would want to be protected.

If you subsidize an activity you get more of it. It's encouraging the behavior that leads to more clients for abortion clinics.

If there was one abortion bill we thought the governor was going to sign, it was this. The parental-consent laws are already on the books. We were just trying to make them more meaningful. This is a pretty common sense, pretty moderate, common-ground type of bill we thought we could get into law.

Abortion raises moral and spiritual questions over which honorable persons can disagree sincerely and profoundly. But those disagreements did not then and do not now relieve us of our duty to apply the Constitution faithfully.

The inevitability of abortion. But I refuse to accept the amoral consequences that are even far worse than that, which is harvesting them because we decided that as an adult society, we can use children to make our lives better, if you seek the reverse.

People say Cream gave birth to heavy metal. If that's so, we should have had an abortion.

Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.

I would never want to vilify somebody who considered abortion murder. I was an illegitimate child myself. I may not have existed today.

Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.

I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.

I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.

[The Republicans] all want to see women's rights eroded and for abortion to become illegal again.

So many state Republican governors and legislators are defunding Planned Parenthood and shutting down clinics that not only provide a safe abortion but HIV testing, cancer screenings, and so much else that women have every right to access, which is harder if you are unemployed or you are a low-income woman that's part of the real service that Planned Parenthood provides.

I've had the great honor of traveling across the world on behalf of our country. I've been to countries where governments either forced women to have abortions, like they used to do in China, or forced women to bear children, like the used to do in Romania.

Donald Trump said women should be punished, that there should be some form of punishment for women who obtain abortions. And I could just not be more opposed to that kind of thinking.

Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.

I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is not being pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is trusting the individual to make the right decision for herself and her family, and not entrusting that decision to anyone wearing the authority of government in any regard.

I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding...

Until he [man] has become fully human, until he learns to conduct himself as a member of the earth, he will continue to create gods who will destroy him. The tragedy of Greece lies not in the destruction of a great culture but in the abortion of a great vision.

We also need to make sure women can be in charge of their reproductive health. We can't defund places like Planned Parenthood, where women can go for all kinds of healthcare services. While reproductive rights span much further than the pro-life/pro-choice debate, [Donald] Trump has actually said he wants to "punish" women for having abortions. And [Mike] Pence is quite possibly the most anti-choice vice presidential candidate in history.

”I favor leaving up to a woman and her doctor the abortion question.”

I would have said yes to abortion if only it was right. I mean, yeah it's right. Well no it's not right that's why I said no to it.

Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of the adoptive parents.

I have something else to ask you-to ask every American. I ask for you to pray for this great nation. I ask your prayers for leaders from both parties. I thank you for your prayers for me and my family, and I ask you to pray for Vice President Gore and his family.

I rest their case. I'm Pro-Life.

Children and unborn children should be protected by law and welcomed into life.

I do not like abortions. I will do everything in my power to restrict abortion.

It is not a loss of inert, amorphous tissue, but of a growing being unique in history.

Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.

No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.

We've consistently seen, since the late 1990s, that more than half of women believe that abortion should be severely restricted or abolished altogether.

So much for the fruits of love. Love? What's love? Sex, ah, that's another thing. Love has babies: sex has abortions.

The methods used to take human lives, such as abortion, the pill, the ring, etc., amounts to genocide. I believe that legal abortion is legal murder...

We oppose and abhor the damnable practice of wholesale abortion and every other unholy and impure act which strikes at the very foundation of the home and family, our most basic institutions.

... in all seriousness... you who submit yourselves to an abortion or to an operation that precludes you from safely having additional healthy children are jeopardizing your exaltation and your future membership in the kingdom of God.

Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people.

Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life.

I've had a baby. I've had an abortion.

The accusation that President Clinton cares deeply about nothing is refuted by his tenacious and guileful battle to prevent any meaningful limits on the form of infanticide known as partial-birth abortion.

Abortion is black genocide...What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?

Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning services. Planned parenthood has a right to perform abortions.

In order to terminate a pregnancy, you have to still a heartbeat, switch off a developing brain.

It is a pity that...the majority of feminists and their allies have stuck to the dead ground of "Me Decade" possessive individualism, an ideology that has more in common than it admits with the prehistoric right, which it claims to oppose but has in fact encouraged.

The abortion industry can try to improve its messaging all it wants. But unless abortion advocates change their devotion to abortion-on-demand, the only message Americans will receive is that the abortion industry is only really interested in improving its bottom line at the expense of the most defenseless among us.

We who oppose abortion do not oppose those who have had abortions; rather, we embrace them with forgiveness and peace.

America will not reject abortion until America sees abortion.

If we took a moment of silence for each person lost to abortion, we would be silent for over 100 years.

If you want to prevent abortions, you make sure everyone has health care, a high school education and birth control. Not the exact opposite.

The crowning insult [of abortion] is that this ordeal is represented to her as some kind of a privilege.Her sad and onerous duty is garbed in the rhetoric of a civil right.

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

No doctor is going to do an abortion on a live fetus. That doesn't happen. Doctors don't do that. If they do, they'll get their license pulled, as well they should.

The issue is not abortion. The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do.

The belief that women should control our own bodies may be a majority belief, but the minority that believes otherwise is against not only safe and legal abortions but contraception and even sex education.

The power of the state stops at our skins. They can't restrict contraception [or] abortion. They can't take our kidneys. Bodily integrity is a principle.

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

There's a second life involved. No matter what your position is on abortion or the death penalty, you shouldn't put a pregnant woman to death.

If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privacy, which ends up becoming ultimately the right to abortion.

I am proudly pro-life and believe that science is proving those who believe in the sanctity of life right every day. A majority of Americans now agree that abortion after five months for any reason is wrong.

The baby's life is never willfully destroyed because the mother's life is in danger.

Child murderers practice their profession without let or hindrance, and open infant butcheries unquestioned...Is there no remedy for all this ante-natal child murder?

I read quite a few complaints last night about Lester Holt's choice of debate topics. Liberals wanted to know why climate change didn't come up. Conservatives thought there should have been a question about abortion.

We are totally opposed to abortion under any circumstances. We are also opposed to abortifacient drugs and chemicals like the pill and the IUD, and we are also opposed to all forms of birth control with the exception of natural family planning (the rhythm method)

The ethical argument regarding abortion hinges on the question of when life begins. Some believe life begins at forty.

We need to support these women who are in crisis pregnancy situations.

Most conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate.

Abortion is the taking of a life.

There will be over 3,500 killed in USA today from abortion. No flags lowered, no presidents crying. No media hyperventilating. Normal day,

I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country.

Supreme Court had said feds should stay out of abortion.

No punishment for women who have partial birth abortions.

There’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with that would become part of my agenda.

We don’t need more ‘What if the mother is going to die’ debated, we need ‘I had an abortion because I was not ready to be a mother. It was my choice and my right. I own it. Back the f@#( up.

Outlaw all abortions; err on the side of life.