Quote: "When we were deciding on a date (for the abortion), we came across the 21st, and realized it is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. It seemed fitting to me that I spend the longest day of my life the longest hours on this wide open day. The whole change of season, change of life, change of self. It is my own birthday, as it were, the day I claim my life and make it what it should be, instead of what it has been. It will always be bittersweet to me, this day, but that is as it should be. The moment I realized I was pregnant I knew that there would be regret and pain, regardless of what I choice. I wont remember the day the fetus inside of me should have been born. It never occurred to me that it would be. But I will honor the day that I made the decision that my life was more important, and vowed to live it as such. I am aware of the sacrifice being made here. It seemed only fair to give it one of my most favorite days."

Quote: Following an abortion, one woman who had four born children and had aborted her fifth, told reporters that she would never consider adoption," I don't believe in adoptions, I just wouldn't give up my child for adoption." (NOTE: instead she killed her child through abortion).

Quote: "It's not like it's illegal. It's not like I'm doing anything wrong."

Quote: “ I found out I was having triplets when I went to my obstetrician. Peter and I were very shocked when she said there were three. My immediate response was, “I cannot have triplets”… I looked at Peter and asked the doctor: ''Is it possible to get rid of one of them? Or two of them?''

Quote: “ Individual rights begin at birth, with the creation of a new, separate human being. Rights are a concept applicable only to individual, actual human beings, not a merely potential one. The fetus may become a human being, but until it is born and the umbilical cord is severed, it is part of an actual human being: the mother. To say that the fetus has rights when it could be born -- the so-called "viability" argument--is to repeat the error of those who say the fetus has rights from conception. Both positions confuse the potential with the actual.”

Quote: "If we respect women's autonomy and their right to make decisions according to their conscience then we can argue that the abortion law should be amended to allow women to end pregnancies at whatever stage they see fit, without having to provide a reason for doing so."

Quote: "Women's choice is just that- an option for medical and health issues. How will a product of rape or incest grow up in the world? Or perhaps a crack baby? Or even a baby that is simply unwanted with parent(s) unprepared for such-- a functional well adjusted human being or yet another drain on society, caught in misery?"

Quote: "soon it will be a sin of parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. We are entering a world where we have to consider the quality of our children."

Quote: "Rather than trying to legislate when a fetus is alive, the question is best left to each individual in terms of his or her own beliefs: For the person who believes that a fetus is alive at conception, no abortions ever, regardless of circumstance. For the person who believes that the fetus is alive after the second trimester, that would be the point for them. Until then, an abortion would not be murder; after the second trimester, it would be. Even though this sounds like a pro-choice argument, it is not - there is no choice as to murder. Each couple should be held to their own standards. Until someone comes along with a universal definition of life that we can all agree on, that is the only standard available."

Quote: “Pro Choice supporters who claim it doesn’t do themselves and their cause a disservice. Of course its alive…Pro-Choice defenders stick their feet in their mouths when they defend abortion by claiming the zygote-embryo-fetus isn't human. It is human. Its DNA is that of a human. Left to grow, it will become a full human person.”

Quote: "Abortion is not a choice we would want anyone to have to make. But the reality is many people make it here because they cannot afford to have a child.The women's movement was all about a wide variety of choices. That should include the right to be a mom, to work at home, to care for your children in a way that is decent and humane and economical. One of the main causes of abortion in America is economics."

Quote: "People who claim to be pro-life trade a woman's freedom, liberty and control of her own body in return for the life of a fetus, which is not even legally a human,I don't think we can trade a woman's liberties in return for the life of something that isn't even legally a person."

Quote: "I don't think abortion is a good thing, but I believe that it needs to be an option, and I hope and believe that it will continue to be."

Quote: Pro-choice researcher David Fergusson concluded that abortion does cause emotional harm to the woman. Up until he published his report, scientists working in this area mainly came from a "pro-life" perspective, and they were often accused of making conclusions based on "weak evidence and strong faith".

But "no one can accuse me of that", he said in the New Zealand Herald with a laugh.

"I'm pro-choice but I've produced results which, if anything, favour a pro-life viewpoint.

"It's obvious I'm not acting out of any agenda except to do reasonable science about a difficult problem."

"Our study is strongly suggestive of a link between abortion and developing mental illness.

And in response to the criticism he received from pro-abortion groups he states, "What people should be saying is, 'This is interesting ... we need to invest more to answer this important question'."

The paper points out that Fergusson expected to find no evidence of harmful effects of abortion. But they found the opposite.

Professor Fergusson said the results could not be argued away by assuming the women involved already had mental health problems or "a pre-disposition".

"We know what people were like before they became pregnant. We take into account their social background, education, ethnicity, previous mental health, exposure to sexual abuse, and a whole mass of factors."

Quote: “ In the movies, newly pregnant women trip, fall down the stairs, and "lose the baby." Ah. If only it were that easy. In real life, once that egg is fertilized and has glided on down the fallopian tube, selected its nesting place, and settled in, it's notoriously secure, behaves like visiting royalty. Nature doesn't give a fig about the hostess's feelings of hospitality or lack of them. If the zygote's not defective, and the woman is in good health, almost nothing will shake it loose. Anyone who's been pregnant and didn't want to be knows this is so.”

Quote: “The D&X (abortion procedure) was developed with the same objective. An inherent hazard of D&E -- aside from potential damage by the instruments themselves and the risk of leaving tissue behind, increasing the chances of infection -- is that fetal bones begin to calcify at about 13 weeks. As they are broken up, the sharp bone ends can puncture, scrape, and perforate. Hence the "intact" dilation and extraction. The fetus is brought out whole instead of being pulled apart bit by bit. The head is punctured and then collapsed by suction or compression so that it will fit through the partially dilated cervix. The fetus is dead, but in one piece. This, specifically, is the procedure the PBAB has sought to criminalize -- when the fetus is killed while its body is outside the uterus, therefore "partially born."

Quote: “while we know that a fetus is human (in a genetic and biological sense), we also appreciate that it is not a person. And the failure to make this distinction is the major flaw in the arguments of anti-abortionists.”

Quote: "Banning any type of abortion to "protect the fetus" necessarily grants rights to the fetus--an utter perversion of individual rights. If a woman has no right to her own body, then by what logic does a fetus (which, by definition, is a biological parasite) have a right to the woman's body? Properly, an infant's rights begin after the fetus is removed from the mother's body and its umbilical cord cut. It is a woman's individual rights--to her life, to her liberty, and to the pursuit of her happiness--that sanctions her right to have an abortion. Once "fetal rights" are granted to one stage of the pregnancy, nothing will prevent their extension to all stages. "Fetal rights" are a gimmick to destroy a woman's individual rights."(Glenn Woiceshyn also develops curriculum materials for schools and homeschoolers.)

Quote: "I wanted to be Judy Garland, to sing, act, dance. I wanted to travel and see the world. (Through the abortion) I didn't think of a fetus as a baby. I thought my responsibility as a human was to live the best life I could, and leave the planet a better place. That was not going to happen as a mother at 21." Goldsmith says she "never had a moment of regret. I believe that an abortion is a murder of a fetus -- different ethically than the murder of a child, but still a death," she tells Lane. "But I swatted a fly earlier; I'm a murderer. I'm also a carnivore. It's a choice."

Quote: “ The last woman I hosted showed me her sonogram, then she pointed out that the fetus was a boy. God…I didn’t know what to say.” Jennifer hosts women and young girls in her house while they await their late term abortions.

Quote: "Starting from Margaret Sanger, there's a connection between women telling the truth about abortion and laws changing. If more women are honest about their abortions, it will be harder to take away that right."

Quote: "With the planet already overcrowded, my personal belief is that a young woman who finds herself unmarried and pregnant should get an abortion."

Quote: Julia Black produced the UK documentary, " My Foetus", she wrote about her decision to show an actual abortion on the forum: Pro-Choice Forum.

“When I was editing my film I deliberated about whether I should show this image (actual abortion). It is disturbing. It looks like a dead baby… But if my film was about me challenging my pro-choiceness to see if it stood the test how could I then censor what the viewer saw because I deemed it too distasteful for them to see…(the Images) If they had decided to come on my journey with me then they had to also see it (abortion)"

"The challenge both pro-life people I interviewed for my film set me was "if there is nothing wrong with abortion why do they resist showing it." I agree. The pro-choice movement is constantly saying that abortion is a fact of life, women can make responsible decisions about having an abortion, its such a simple procedure in the early stages, so indeed why has it not been shown on TV before?"

"If we really believe there is nothing wrong with abortion - which I still do - then lets be upfront about it."

David Paintin wrote a summary of the film as well on the Pro-Choice Forum where he says, that during the film, "Julia is then shown taking a woodland walk, carrying her baby daughter, and accompanied by her father, Tim Black, the founder of Marie Stopes International.(UK abortion chain) Tim said that abortion is grisly and there is a tendency to hide reality."

Quote: “The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.”

Quote: said this after viewing graphic pictures of aborted babies at a pro-life display on her campus, "These pictures give me nightmares. It's obnoxious, it's upsetting, and it's so sickening. It's an invasion of my mind. I don't think it's murder, but it's not something I could emotionally do. I couldn't live with myself. I would always wonder who that baby was."

Quote: "My hand flew to my mouth in shock. I swallowed. I didn't want to say it, but the word 'murder' came to my lips." describing the British documentary "My Foetus" by filmmaker Julia Black, Lauren Booth is a pro-choice journalist.

Quote: "I do not deny that some women, most usually those with preexisting psychological and emotional problems and/or ambivalence about having an abortion, can be psychologically harmed by the abortion."

Quote: "I don't believe in killing a child. I think that's horrible, but in a bad situation, like rape or incest, women should have a choice."

Quote: said this of the Constitution , "The guns are in there, if we're not careful, the fetuses will be in there. Damn it, I want to be in there."

Quote: "Since we're throwing around radical ideas about abortion rights, let me raise this question: If abortion is to remain legal and relatively unrestricted - and I believe it should - why shouldn't men have the right during at least the first trimester of pregnancy to terminate their legal and financial rights and responsibilities to the child? And although the notion of women "tricking" men into fatherhood now sounds arcane and sexist, we'd be blind not to recognize the extent to which some women are capable of tricking themselves into thinking men will stick around, despite all evidence to the contrary. Actually, there's one word we've had all along: choice. We just need to broaden its definition."

Quote: “in the paper on Saturday, I read about an abortion that had taken place where the 'child' had cried for 80 minutes after abortion. I found that extremely difficult to consider as a proper, legal, and morally right procedure, even though I have always been pro-choice. The child used as the example was clearly alive, and left to die out of the womb.”

Quote: “…It scares me because religion genuinely helps explain to them a world they don't understand. For example, they're personally revolted by gay sex, and their religion says it's okay to be revolted by it: God's disgusted by it. Somebody should let them in on the fact that God actually isn't disgusted by it. If he created everything, he created gay sex. God's probably up there enjoying it right now. I mean, he's enjoying watching everyone. I'm not suggesting God is gay. They may believe in some fundamentalist sort of way that abortion is wrong, but most of all they hate the idea of women having control. It's threatening to guys who have been losers since high school. Women deciding if they want to have sex and not pay a price for it? That whips them into a frenzy, and religion becomes their solace…”

Quote: “ It was difficult. When I found out I was pregnant, I was saddened because I knew that I would probably have to make this decision. Like I said, I have two children, so I look into their eyes and I love ‘em; it's been difficult, you know, it's not easy…I don't think it's, you know, ever easy on a woman but we need that choice.”

Quote: "Unwanted children breed criminals and other problems in our society," Williams, a pro-abortion supporter told reporters she had an abortion when she was 28. She said it was the right decision for her at the time, and she supports the right of other women to make the same decisions.

Quote: "Abortion isn’t about playing god anymore than anarchism is. If we as anarchists support self-determination, then the moral component of the abortion debate becomes defunct. Abortion is killing, but not murder. Americans would like to think that death is avoidable, and for that reason liberals have tried to sugarcoat a women’s right to choose with an it’s-not-about-the-fetus argument that disregards the emotional intensity that everyone I know has experienced when choosing to abort. When we recognize that something is dying—if only a possibility of life—then it’s possible to grieve and move forward."

Quote: "that we need to contextualize the fight to defend abortion rights within a moral framework that admits that the death of a fetus is a real death; that there are degrees of culpability, judgment and responsibility involved in the decision to abort a pregnancy; that the best understanding of feminism involves holding women as well as men to the responsibilities that are inseparable from their rights; and that we need to be strong enough to acknowledge that this country's high rate of abortion--which ends more than a quarter of all pregnancies--can only be rightly understood as what Dr. Henry Foster was brave enough to call it: "a failure."

Quote: Wolf asks, "What if we called abortion what many believe it to be: a failure, whether that failure is of technology, social support, education, or male and female responsibility?"

Quote: “If, however, you deem otherwise, particularly in the case of forcing an unwanted child unto a reluctant mother, who then should become responsible for this new life? Should it be you? Should it be the government? (And certainly we all know how well the government functions.) Will this child be doomed to a life of foster homes or perhaps an abusive household? Who will feed and educate and clothe this unwanted child for 20-years or more? Considering that life is so precious why then would we want to force a pregnancy upon an unwilling mother?”

Quote: "Most of the abortions in America are about convenience. People need to accept abortion for what it is: a valid part of the reproductive spectrum. I want it to be seen as normal; if 1.3 million women in this country have one every year, it's gotta be normal."

Quote: "I remember feeling conflicted about the magic of being pregnant,I felt electricity running through my body. Not for a minute did I not think of it as a life. I knew it was a baby."

Quote: "Abortion sucks, and you can argue against it all you want, but desperate girls are still going to do it, no matter what you think. You can either keep pissing in the wind protesting your little hearts out, or provide a safe environment for the girls who are going to do it no matter what the Christian Right may think. This was the line of logic that led me to pimp my sister. When I finally stepped into her life it was because I had to pick her up from the hospital with a broken collar bone. Ruby had been picked up by one tough customer too many."

Quote: "Though they are not functionally autonomous, zygotes, embryos, fetuses are not technically part of the body. They are discrete organisms. On the issue of abortion I agree with Peter Singer. I think that the value of a creature’s life is roughly correlated with its level of consciousness which is presumably correlated to its intelligence (I’m only talking really huge differences here; the difference between a mouse and a dolphin, not an idiot and a genius.) In my view, if you abort a three-month-old fetus it is like killing a lizard or something. A viable fetus is pretty close to human, depending on how close to birth it is."

Quote: "As for the thing about one-fourth of our generation "murdered" (by abortion), I do not despair this. The world is already ridiculously overpopulated."

Quote: "When speaking with Ms. V. regarding a student, who is currently in her second pregnancy, she referred to the student as a "slut" and stated she would drag her down and force her to have an abortion if she could. I have also heard her call some of the other girls by derogatory names when speaking of them."

Quote: "Better education in reproductive health is the best solution to keeping women from having unnecessary surgeries but you see that the same people who are trying to ban abortion are also trying to ban access to contraceptives and reproductive health information. I also don’t believe that black women breeding more is a solution to a problem when, already, too many of our children are born into poverty and have limited options for success and access. As it stands, too many of the children we are producing are just contributing to the growth of the penal system."

Quote: "We are here this morning because, through our collective efforts, we are agents in bringing our fragile world ever closer to the promise of redemption,as clergy from an array of denominations, we say yes to the call before us (supporting abortion rights). Please join me in prayer: We praise you, God, ruler of time and space, for challenging us to bring healing and comfort to your world."

Quote: “I'm pro-choice because I couldn't fully enjoy sex were I consumed with worry about the potential consequences. I'm pro-choice for all my friends who've had abortions and gone on to do great things, who are better women for being childless (for now). I'm pro-choice for the new moms and dads I know who were able to actively choose to become parents. I'm pro-choice for all those babies, like my new cousin Adam, born knowing they're 100 percent loved and wanted.”

Quote: "It's a spiritual rape to deny a woman the right to make a moral and ethical decision, from our tradition, we deeply respect the fact that every member of our faith has the right to make this ethical choice. It's clearly a violation of the First Amendment, which guarantees men the right to be conscientious objectors during war." Rev. Schiess is one of the first 11 women to be ordained as priests in the Episcopal Church.

Quote: "(Recent church policy in support of abortion), maintains our moderately pro-choice position in the Presbyterian Church and sees matters related to abortion as matters to be decided in consultation with the physician, her family and her pastor.''

Quote: "I am willing,to take whatever heat would be generated by my support of what I think is right and in God's will." Vannoy is a member of the local Planned Parenthood board.

Quote: told the audience ( At the Planned Parenthood Conference) how a Presbyterian church in Houston that he had led and several others had worked with Planned Parenthood to start a family planning center...

Quote: Ron Weddington, (former husband of Sarah Weddington the lawyer who successfully argued the Roe. Vs. Wade decision): "There are a lot of white, Republican males that view Hillary Clinton and Sarah Weddington as somebody who's out to castrate them.”.

Quote: "I am not a survivor, I was simply born. As an employee of an abortion provider, I feel that a woman should have the right to choose. If my mother had felt differently about her pregnancy with me, and there was a need to abort me, it would have been at her discretion and hers alone. This sight is in poor taste, and for women to post to it is disgraceful. Abortion is not only a sensitive topic, but it is a decision process that is not made on a whim. This site minimalizes certain aspects of the procedure and somewhat distorts the truth. Please hire a fact checker!!!"

Quote: "I don't think my dress would have fit with a baby in there," she told reporters she found out she was pregnant while planning her wedding, so she had an abortion.

Quote: "If anything, a fetus is merely a parasitical creature that uses the mother as its host.Tapeworms are parasites that house themselves in the intestinal tracts of humans, feeding off the food the host consumes. Comparatively, a fetus is little more than a tapeworm. It is quite common for humans to annihilate parasites with medications or toxins, so why not allow for fetuses to suffer the same fate?"

Quote: "In what may be surprising to many feminists and prochoice activists, Solinger debunks the image of the exploitive, unskilled practitioner lurking behind every botched abortion before Roe. She points out that most illegal abortions were actually performed by skilled and competent practitioners, and that today's attacks on abortion providers draw fuel from a "misreading of the past that says that cravenly greedy back-alley butchers were the chief source of danger to helpless women in the criminal era." This persistent myth adopted by feminists as well as our opponents -- has contributed to a climate today in which abortion providers are easily targeted for violence and too often defended only with reluctance." (Commenting on the book, Abortion Wars)

Quote: "For example,Solinger's essay on the period between 1950 and 1970 contradicts the prochoice claim that back-alley butchers abounded before Roe v. Wade and were a great danger to women's lives." (Commenting on the book: Abortion Wars)

Quote: “ Supporters of abortion-rights were incensed that I had included a comment from a young woman who terminated her pregnancy in part because she otherwise wouldn’t have fit into her wedding dress. They were furious that I described an abortion in detail, including the ultrasound images that Dr. Harrison had pointed out to me: A 13-week fetus before, an empty screen after. And they didn’t like the comment from another patient, in for her fourth abortion, who said the procedure was “no big stress” -- and easier than remembering to take her birth-control pills.” ( comment following controversy from a story she ran in the LA Times about a day inside an abortion clinic).

Quote: Steven Pottorff is a member of the radical pro-abortion group , Maggot Punk , "There have been a couple of times where Troy ( a pro-life leader) has been talking to me and I've thought, 'Could this guy maybe have a point? He's that convincing."

Quote: ''I'm old enough to remember before Roe v. Wade. I live in fear that they might take that right away from people. It appalls me. Personally, I don't think that's a choice I could make, but it's sure as heck not my business to tell anybody else what they can do.''

Quote: after viewing an abortion on the film, “I felt quite sick after having seen the 4-week abortion.”