"Roe V Wade" Quotes . Top 28 Short Quotes About "Roe V Wade"

"At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life."

--- Anthony Kennedy

#Life #Existence #Concepts

"Fate handed Barack Obama the best of all political gifts - a dyspeptic, surly, spiteful opposition on the one hand and very unpopular financiers on the other - and he wouldn't come out punching, name names, or go for the jugular. It was as if while getting mugged by guys with brass knuckles, he turned the other cheek. He even jeopardized his pledge to preserve women's rights under Roe v. Wade in order to get a health care bill written by the corporate lapdog Max Baucus and the gang of revolving door mercenaries he hired to write a bill friendly to industry."

--- Bill Moyers

#Bills #Preserves #Health Care

"Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem."

--- Tony Campolo

#Thinking #Wade #Common

"Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them."

--- Susan B. Anthony

#Prolife #Child Care #Mother

"I cannot stand people who disagree with me on the issue of Roe v. Wade... which I believe is about the proper way to cross a lake."

--- Stephen Colbert

#People #Lakes #Crosses

"It's been a long time since Roe v. Wade, and I do think most people are able to have respect for other people's choices. Most people, I think, have accepted that it's not up to them to control other people's choices, except, it seems, when it comes to Washington, D.C., where everyone has an opinion about people's uteruses."

--- Shonda Rhimes

#People #Thinking #Long

"For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation."

--- David Horowitz

#Foundation #Court #Wade

"We are not here to advocate abortion. We do not ask this Court to rule that abortion is good or desirable in any particular situation. We are here to advocate that the decision as to whether or not a particular woman will continue to carry or will terminate a pregnancy is a decision that should be made by that individual. That, in fact, she has a constitutional right to make that decision for herself and that the state has shown no interest in interfering with that decision"

--- Sarah Weddington

#Desirable #Pregnancy #Asks

"Well, let's see. There's-of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that's never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So, you know, going through the history of America, there would be others but..."

--- Sarah Palin

#Stupid #Consensus #Courses

"Well, let's see. There's -- of course -- in the great history of America rulings there have been rulings."

--- Sarah Palin

#Courses #Great History #Wells

"It's time ... the Republican Party end the war on women they started. Whether it's the Blunt-Rubio amendment, personhood or attempts to repeal Roe v. Wade, we aren't going to let extremist politicians dictate to women what we can or cannot do with our bodies."

--- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#Politician #War #Ends

"First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade."

--- Dennis Kucinich

#Constitutional Amendments #Wade #Firsts

"Among the most famous of these Supreme Court cases of exercise of political power I believe are the cases of Roe V. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, two 1973 cases based on false statements which created a constitutional right to abortion."

--- Sam Brownback

#Court Cases #I Believe #Court

"Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of."

--- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#Agenda 21 #Population #Population Control

"Thirty-two years after the legalization of abortion by the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the majority of Americans consider themselves pro-life."

--- Rick Santorum

#Two Years #Court #Wade

"The goal of the right is not to stop abortion but to demonize it, punish it and make it as difficult and traumatic as possible. All this it has accomplished fairly well, even without overturning Roe v. Wade ."

--- Ellen Willis

#Difficult #Wells #Wade

"I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states."

--- Rand Paul

#Introducing #Wade #Legislation

"Roe v. Wade was bad law and bad medical science."

--- Fred Thompson

#Law #Medical #Wade

"I will appoint men and women to the Federal judiciary who share my view of unborn children as constitutionally protected and who will unhesitatingly vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. If nominated by my party, I will select my running mate from among a list of men and women fully committed to protection of the unborn."

--- Gary Bauer

#Share #Lists #Vote

"Dan Quayle thinks Roe v. Wade is two ways to cross the Potomac."

--- Patricia Schroeder

#Thinking #Crosses #Way

"You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all human life from natural conception to natural death."

--- Norma McCorvey

#Conception #Book #Dedicated

"Instead of helping women in Roe v. Wade, I brought destruction to me & millions of women."

--- Norma McCorvey

#Wade #Abortion #Roe V Wade

"We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and theology are unable to arrive at any consensus, the judiciary, at this point in the development of man's knowledge, is not in a position to speculate as to the answer."

--- Harry A. Blackmun

#Consensus #Answers #Difficult

"The right to privacy... is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy."

--- Harry A. Blackmun

#Pregnancy #Pro Abortion #Abortion Laws

"It's quite a stark contrast between the candidates, in how they will change things for women. Hillary Clinton wants to appoint Supreme Court Justices who will protect Roe v Wade. [Donald] Trump wants to punish women for getting abortions and defund Planned Parenthood."

--- Natalie Portman

#Protect #Parenthood #Justice

"As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, `Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due process, equal protection of the laws.'"

--- Nat Hentoff

#Said #Dues #Constitutional Rights

"Not since before Roe v. Wade has a law or court decision had the potential to devastate access to reproductive health care on such a sweeping scale."

--- Nancy Northup

#Health Care #Care #Scales

"America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men."

--- Mother Teresa

#Anti Abortion #Mother #Wade

28 "Roe V Wade" Quotes