Cherie Blair can call herself a feminist all she likes, but any feminist worth her salt would have made a point of having a termination – on the NHS, naturally – when she got knocked up the last time ... Famous women would rather admit to having been sexually abused as children than to having had a termination ... Myself, I’d as soon weep over my taken tonsils or my absent appendix as snivel over those [five] abortions. I had a choice, and I chose life – mine. Julie Burchill, The Guardian 25th May 2005
You're not going to get the answers from holy texts. You're not going to the answers from biologists. These are matters of human concern. There are conflicting values and taken in isolation each of these values is quite legitimate. Choice is legitimate, preserving life is legitimate. Noam Chomsky
If women must submit to abortion to preserve their lifestyle or career, their economic or social status they are pandering to a system devised and run by men for male convenience. Daphne deJong, Feminism and Abortion: The Great Inconsistency, 7th January 1978
No matter how it is worded or performed, abortion hurts women. This won’t stop until women stand up in unison and say, ‘This is unacceptable. We deserve better.’ Lack of emotional and financial resources are the real undue burden and abortion will never lift that. Serrin Foster, president Feminists for Life, press release 28th June 2000
It is typical of the contradictions that break women’s hearts that when they avail themselves of their fragile right to abortion they often, even usually, went with grief and humiliation to carry out a painful duty that was presented to them as a privilege. Abortion is the latest in a long line of non-choices that begin at the very beginning with the time and the place and the manner of lovemaking. Germaine Greer, cited The New Republic 5th October 1992
Casti Connubii, 31 December 1930. Vatican’s policy on contraception, abortion & marriage
February 1970 Abilene Texas: ‘Alive. Yes, alive on the inside.’ Roe v Wade 1989 starring Holly Hunter & Amy Madigan & Kathy Bates & James Gammon & Chris Mulkey & Micole Mercurio & Dion Anderson & Annabella Price & Daniel Benzali & David Wohl et al, director Gregory Hoblit, opening scene with female announcer of Giant Killer Rat attraction at local fair
I can't give up another baby. ibid. daughter to father
It’s the hardest thing in the world to give up a child. ibid. Ellen to doctor
I’m pregnant; I’m not trash. ibid. Ellen to lawyer
Maybe you ought to try to change the laws here in Texas. ibid. lawyer to Ellen
There’s no in-between, not for us, not for them.’ ibid. state lawyer
You want to put her down?’ ibid. Ellen’s mother
I am Jane Roe. ibid. Ellen
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion. Mother Teresa, Nobel Prize acceptance speech
When I, or people like me, are running the country, you’d better flee, because we will find you, we will try you, and we’ll execute you. Randall Terry, founder Operation Rescue
I’m in southern California to attend summer camp with a radical protest group known as Survivors, who are on a mission to end abortion. Stacey Dooley, Brainwashing Stacey: Anti-Abortion Camp, BBC 2016
One of the only pro-life groups in America to train children for front-line activism. ibid.
It doesn’t take long for our signs to get a reaction from the public. ibid.
The state of South Dakota has decided that they’re going to pass a stature that literally echoes the kind of statute that existed prior to the decision of Roe v Wade. Lake of Fire, 2006, Professor Douglas Kmiec
The Pro-Life movement is not only targeting abortion, but they are targeting birth control … next they go after sex education. ibid.
We are right; they are wrong. ibid. Pro-Life activist
They sell the heads. ibid.
Everybody is right when it comes to the issue of abortion. ibid. Alan Dershowitz
There are conflicting values, and taken in isolation, each of the values is quite legitimate. ibid. Noam Chomsky
The last three physicians that I have worked for have all been murdered. ibid. woman
The anti-abortionists are strongly fundamentalist. ibid. dude
Michael [Griffin] is actually a hero. ibid. Pro-Life activist
Hi yes, Dr Tiller was just shot at Reformation Lutheran Church. After Tiller, 911 call, 2013
Dr Tiller has performed legal abortions since 1973. His women’s health-care services clinic is just one of three in the nation which perform late-term abortions. ibid. CNN news report
For two decades George Tiller was a target of anti-abortion extremists. ibid. news report
The third trimester typically begins at about the 25th week of pregnancy. 9 states allow third-trimester abortions without legal restrictions. These abortions account for fewer than 1% of all abortions in the United States. ibid. captions
There was a stark contrast between the women who were having babies they wanted and ready to care for them and women who for one reason and another were not going to take care of their babies. ibid. abortion doctor
The procedure could be as much as $10,000. ibid. clinic receptionist
What’s the right thing to do? What’s really helping people? ibid. abortion doctor
In 1973 the US Supreme Court decision in Roe vs Wade gave every woman the right to have an abortion. Since 2011 over half the states in the nation have significantly restricted access to abortions. This film is about women in Missouri, where there is limited access to abortion, so many have to travel hundreds of miles for safe and effective treatment. Abortion: Stories Women Tell, captions, Sky Atlantic 2017
Wake Up America STOP Abortion (Legalized Murder) Cemetery Of The Innocent. ibid. sign in field
40 Days For Life. ibid. Missouri Pro-Life group
Britain’s abortion law was passed in 1967. Half a century on it remains almost unchanged. Abortion on Trial, BBC 2017
One in three women in the UK will have an abortion in her lifetime. ibid.
I reported on the campaign to get the Abortion Act passed. ibid. Anne Robinson
Every year around 190,000 abortions take place in England and Wales. ibid.
Before this, Irish women – a lot of them had to travel to Liverpool to have a termination, which is tragic obviously but at least it’s poetic, ’cause every time I hear a Scouse accent a little something inside me dies. Frankie Boyle’s New World Order s2e3
In my surgery I see at least one woman a week who is seriously contemplating an abortion. Quite apart from the 35 deaths per year we know … she may be unable to have a family. Ken Loach, The Wednesday Play: Up the Junction, doctor’s commentary, BBC 1965
They can do an immediate at the Gishford. It’s a clinic. They can do it at once. Felicia’s Journey 1999 starring Bob Hoskins & Arsinee Khanjian & Elaine Cassidy & Sheila Reid & Nizwar Karanj & Ali Yassine & Petre McDonald & Kriss Dosanjh & Gerard McSorley & Marie Stafford et al, director Atom Egoyan, Joe
Interviewer: Do you believe in punishment for abortion – yes or no – as a principle?
Donald Trump: The answer is there has to be some form of punishment.
Interviewer: For the woman?
Donald Trump: Yeah, there has to be some form. MSNBC interview 30th March 2016
In America’s south some call it baby killing. Alabama has passed a law to ban abortion: other states are following suit. Women in some states could be forced to have their babies even if they’ve been raped. Across the country many are outraged. Panorama: America’s Abortion War, BBC 2019
America’s Supreme Court granted women the right to abortion in a landmark 1973 case. Roe v Wade as it is known restricted the right of individual states to ban an abortion. ibid.
The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion with handicaps has increased dramatically. Why? Because when you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children.
In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There’s a special punishment Christians would suggest. Bob Marshall, Virginia general assembly, cited newsreader online 22nd February 2010