#abortion

Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for abortion. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#children #enhancing #health #need #pregnancy

Annie turned away, her eyes glittering. 'Here's what no one tells you,' she said. 'When you deliver a fetus, you get a death certificate, but not a birth certificate. And afterward, your milk comes in, and there's nothing you can do to stop it.' She looked up at me. 'You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever. I know I didn't do the wrong thing. But I don't feel like I did the right thing, either. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#motherhood #death

In my view, the pro-life movement at this point should focus on seeking to reduce the number of abortions. At times it will require political education and legal fights, at times it will require education and the establishment of alternatives to abortion, such as adoption centers. Unfortunately, such measures are sometimes opposed by so-called hard-liners in the pro-life movement. These hard-liners are fools. Because they want to outlaw all abortions, they refuse to settle for stopping some abortions; the consequence is that they end up preventing no abortions. ↗

— Dinesh D'Souza

#conservative #law #life #murder #politics

Conception is the beginning of human life. From the time that an ovum is fertilized a new life begins that is neither that of the father nor of the mother. It is rather the life of a new human being with his own growth. It would never become human if it were not human already. ↗

— ~ Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

#faith

You can't really protect women or men from their choices, so let them have their own lives and trust the process. Given the history of society's efforts to control women's sexuality and reproduction, this remained a revolutionary idea. No wonder it disturbed and frightened some people so deeply. ↗

— Stephen Singular

#pro-choice #women-s-rights #men

I bear a deep red stain that runs from my left shoulder down to my right hip, a trail left by the herbwitch's poison that my mother used to try to expel me from her womb. ↗

— R.L. LaFevers

#birthmarks #first-sentence #first-sentence

Expanding eligibility of family planning services to low-income women will maximize cost-savings to both federal and state governments, reduce the disparities in access to family planning services for low-income women, and decrease the incidence of abortion in the U.S. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

#access #both #decrease #disparities #expanding

However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice. ↗

— Tony Blair

#choice #circumstances #criminalize #difficult #difficult circumstances

I was thrown into the Parliament right away. From 1976 to 1978 I was concerned with the abortion issue, later on with that of divorce. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#away #concerned #divorce #i #into

Together, we will protect the sanctity of life, ensuring early next Congress that no federal funds are used for abortion. ↗

— Fred Upton

#congress #early #ensuring #federal #funds