5 Quotes Tagged: pro-choice

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

The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from the moment of conception until its natural end. Abortion, consequently, cannot be a human right — it is the very opposite. It is a deep wound in society.

I'm pro-choice. But I hope that choice will be life.

Teresa said that until men gave birth and put up with husbands, as women do, they should not have an opinion - let alone decide on - abortion and divorce. She didn't believe that men had the right to an opinion, much less to pass laws on the female body, since they'd never know the exhaustion of gestation, the pain of labor, and the eternal bondage of motherhood.

Suddenly, I began to wonder: If one in three or four American women had an abortion at some time in her life — a common statistical estimate, even in those days of illegality — then why, WHY should this single surgical procedure be deemed a criminal act?