Quote: Platt staunchly defends a woman's right to use as much knowledge as she can obtain to decide whether she wants to continue a pregnancy. "There's a sanctity of life that I respect," he says, "but there's a sanctity of choice, too."

Quote: In an article regarding late term abortions reporters went to an abortion clinic in Los Angeles. They spoke with an abortion clinic administrator and said that the administrator agreed to an interview, on the condition that neither her name nor that of the clinic be used. It is a private clinic, run by a former general practitioner, that does about 150 abortions a week. It accepts patients 26 weeks into their pregnancies. Asked the obvious question, the administrator sighs and says, "We have kind of gotten out of the habit of asking why they waited so long."

Quote: An interview with this abortion doctor was printed on Salon.com. She did not give her real name, only Dr. "X". She was asked to respond to a quote by former Planned Parenthood President, Faye Wattleton who said, "I think we have deluded ourselves into believing that people don't know that abortion is killing. So any pretense that abortion is not killing is a signal of our ambivalence, a signal that we cannot say yes, it kills a fetus, but it is the women's body, and therefore ultimately her choice."

Her response was, "I believe that very firmly.."

She went on to state, "And having been through three pregnancies and knowing what kind of physical toll that takes on people, I still believe very strongly that women should not be made to carry a child for nine and a half months when they don't want to.

Still, there was also a sadness for me about the procedure that I hadn't really felt before I'd had my own children. In a way, though, I feel that makes me a better provider because I can talk to women about the children they have, about the difficulty of the decision, and let them express their ambivalent feelings and still support them."

Quote: “We would like to keep abortion part of regular medical care. Our view is, abortion is nothing special. Abortion is right up there with having a baby or getting the care for whatever other medical needs you have.”

Quote: This is a poverty issue. Don't let anybody tell you any different. You don't see a lot of middle-class women having second-trimester abortions," says Anne Walshe, the blunt-spoken administrator of a Manhattan abortion clinic that she wants to remain anonymous. Her abortion clinic, one of the nation's busiest, does as many as 16,000 abortions a year. At least half are performed during the second trimester.

Quote: “To all those opposing tax money paying for abortion, repeat after me:" An Abortion I pay for Today Is Welfare I don't pay tomorrow!"

Quote: "I would refuse to answer those questions (if asked by the patient if the unborn baby was “ Human Life”), because it is a subjective matter for the woman to decide and an answer from her is nothing but her own subjective opinion."

Quote: “There are reasons why a fetus should not be regarded as a person with full human rights at any time during pregnancy. The fetus is a parasite completely dependent on the woman for continued existence.”

Quote: "People, when asked casually, usually say that abortion is wrong because it involves 'killing the baby': it is only when they have experienced the distress caused by an unwanted pregnancy that they understand that the fetus has little moral value compare to the woman herself."

Quote: "As for abortion, it is what it is. The fetus is what it is. In my mind, the one who gets to decide that value is the woman who's pregnant. It's as simple as that."

Quote: Late-term abortionist James McMahon said in an interview that his conscience and his religious beliefs (he claims he still attends Mass occasionally) have answered the basic questions that arise from later abortions. "I've always been a classic liberal. I believe in freedom in its broadest sense," says the abortionist, whose office is decorated with photographs of his own two children. "I frankly think the soul or personage comes in when the fetus is accepted by the mother."

Quote: "If I see a case...after 20 weeks, where it frankly is a child to me, I really agonize over it because the potential is so imminently there. I think, 'Gee, it's too bad that this child couldn't be adopted.' On the other hand, I have another position, which I think is superior in the hierarchy of questions, and that is: 'Who owns the child?' It's got to be the mother."

Quote: In an ABC News interview abortionist Jane Hodgson made the following statements:

“I have supervised and participated in or done approximately 30,000 (abortions)

PETER JENNINGS asked: They call you a killer. Does that make sense to you?

HODGSON: "Well, I don't feel that way. I think I have done a humane service for lots of women in this world. I don't look upon it as killing, no, because I do not consider, in the first place, that any embryo or the fetus is a person. It is a potential person."

She was asked by a caller, "Exactly what do you define in medical terms as a person?"

HODGSON replied: "I don't believe there is a medical definition of person, but it means, it implies certainly a- we don't deny that the fetus or the embryo is human, but personhood implies a great deal more. A person can- a fetus cannot be a person without a brain. Nothing can be a person that does not have a brain. And a fetus does not have a brain that is functional until at least 30 weeks."

Quote: "I think it (abortion) should be a woman's choice, but these are some strong images, It would change my mind." (commenting on a pro-life display of aborted baby images.)

Quote: “Having looked at the facts, uncomfortable as they are, you have to make up your own mind as to which life takes priority. That decision is a moral one, that only you can make.” Julia Black is the filmmaker of “My Foetus” a British documentary which showed an actual abortion.

Quote: "It's not about being pro-abortion but respecting that these are personal, moral, and ethical decisions that only women can make."

Quote: “Women who are thinking about ending a pregnancy are not asking, ‘Is this a life?’ They know that it is. They are asking, ‘Can I take care of this baby?”

Quote: “We can not have a pregnant woman working at an abortion clinic." One employee of Rajanna told reporters that he threatened to fire her because she was pregnant.

Quote: "A very large percentage of [black] women are personally opposed to abortion but are pro-choice. Women of color agree with not giving unborn children more rights than grown women, but even when they're terminating a pregnancy, they call it a baby. This has been going on as long as we have had the debate. What women of color mostly say is that we have the right to do decide what children are born or not--that is part of women's power." Loretta Ross, the co-author of Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice (SouthEnd Press, 2005).

Quote: “My announcement that I would rather have an abortion than a cavity filled shocked her into silence.” And “...Some women experience abortion as painful.”

Quote: “Hillary can say anything she wants about whether an abortion is a tragedy.What I know when I perform an abortion for a patient is that the overwhelming feeling is one of relief. Because the abortion has solved a huge problem in her life, whether it’s because she couldn’t afford another child, couldn’t afford to be a good mother to another child, or doesn’t have the money to raise a child.Every time I do an abortion I save a woman’s life. If you want to call that a tragedy”—she pauses and exhales a sharp sigh—“I don’t consider it a tragedy, I’m sorry.”

Quote: "Life begins when the baby can survive on its own; when the fetus is independent of its mother."

Quote: Speaking about the typical abortion patient, "I think it is basically a personality type who generally has her life out of control and unfortunately nowadays there are no shortage of people in general whose lives are out of control. They drift, they tend to live for the moment in terms not only of their sexual practices but in terms of their economic lives and they are people in general who don’t think beyond the moment, who don’t plan for tomorrow, and who really will take life as it comes and deal with the rest later. It is a personality type is what I am saying rather than any race or socioeconomic group or things of that sort.” He continues with his opinion of the first time abortion profile, “ there is certainly a very high incidence amongst teenagers and I believe the reason for that is that teenagers generally don’t think of consequences of their actions or ignorant as to contraceptive practices or deny the possibility of pregnancy...” Benjamin performs abortions in South Florida.

Quote: “I challenged myself: Is this right? Is this ethical? Is this Christian? Is this appropriate? Am I demeaning myself? Do I want to do abortions? There's a lot of personal soul-searching. It's not an easy decision that a physician makes to be an abortion provider.” Hanson owns her own abortion clinic and was the former Medical Director of Planned Parenthood of Minnesota and South Dakota.

Quote: "I want every child that's born, to be born into a family that wants a child. I don't want children to be born into a family where they are not wanted and can't be cared for carefully. That's the tragedy."

Quote: "Adoption is a wonderful thing, and they are always given the option to have the pregnancy and have children placed in adoption. And I admire those who do, but not many do."

Quote: "I've helped them out of a predicament that they were not happy to be in,and if I wasn't here to do it, you know, maybe no one else would do it."

Quote: "An abortion is still an abortion. This drug (RU-486) doesn't change that part of it."

Quote: ''There's a 6-year-old boy that I delivered that I say hello to, and after the last newspaper article came out, he wouldn't look at me. That's the hardest thing for me, because I've always prided myself on my relationship with kids. It hurts me.''

Quote: "I have seen women whose boyfriends have left them, who are at college and have yet to finish their studies, women who can't afford to bring up a child, women who were taking the Pill but didn't realise that being sick reduced its effectiveness. These are women who want children, but not now because they believe the welfare of that child will be compromised. They do think very hard and there is a great sadness. The decision will affect every year they spend on this planet and most do not move on easily"

Quote: "I don't drag people in,I provide a service to people who call seeking such a service. I'm an object of hate for that?"

Quote: "Being pro-choice does not mean I'm pro-abortion. I don't know anybody who's pro-abortion, but I also don't believe I have any right to tell another woman how to treat her own body."

Quote: Henshaw testified in a study on abortion by displaying a chart entitled “ Healthier Children.” It stated that because of abortion there are “fewer abandoned infants”. He also argued to the task force that because of abortion there are “ fewer children with the handicaps of being wanted by their parents.” This was given as a reason to support legal abortion. (The Alan Guttmacher Institute is the research arm of Planned Parenthood).

Quote: “The real question, is not when life begins, but who is best prepared to make the decision to transmit life to a new generation – the individual or the state?"

Quote: "For me, the way [the workers] would talk about abortion became an important part of the work. What they said in essence was that the pro-choice movement refuses to discuss abortion -- what it's like to have an abortion, what it looks like. They believed it would strengthen the pro-choice movement to talk about this. The pro-choice movement has taken a very sanitized approach. They don't talk about the physical aspect of abortion."