Abortion has been a heated topic for many years now. Quite a few people are pro life while others are pro-choice. This article will be looking at some good pro-choice quotes to see why people feel the way they do. Some of these quotes are controversial while others support the pro choice position. This blog is a great resource for sad pro choice quotes.

Pro choice quotes are not always so easy to find. It’s difficult to sift through all the opinions to find the few quotes that really get to the heart of the matter. In this blog, my goal was to find quotes that truly showcase the pro choice mentality.

For this blog, we included quotes from different sources. Many of these pro choice quotes come from larger organizations, while others come from individual pro choice activists.

Pro choice quotes are the opinions of people on abortion and whether it is morally right or wrong. They are usually said by celebrities, leaders, and those who have an opinion on the matter. These sayings cover a wide range of opinions, which is something that makes them so interesting. This blog will look at some of the most interesting pro choice quotes that have been said in the last few years and how they help to define the current discussion.

Good Pro-Choice Quotes

It’s really easy to say you’re 100% against abortion when you’ll never have to make that decision. —Anonymous

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion. —Hillary Clinton

How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelet? —George Carlin

Worse than aborting is birthing in instability. ― Abhijit Naskar

Listen to the pregnant woman and you cannot help but defend her right to abortion. —Ayelet Waldman

Seventy-seven percent of anti-abortion leaders are men. 100% of them will never be pregnant. —Planned Parenthood ad

The abortion debate is more about power and control than the fate of a zygote. ― Thor Benson

If we lived in a culture that valued women’s autonomy and in which men and women practiced cooperative birth control, the abortion issue would be moot. — Christiane Northrup

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The truth is, everyone is pro-life and everyone is pro-choice. There is no real conflict between these two values. ― Leland Lewis

Abortion is the insurance against a fate worse than death which is called a family. —Peter Kreeft

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body. —Margaret Sanger

My body, my decision. Whether I choose to birth or abortion. – Abhijit Naskar

Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions. —Karl Kraus

I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn’t was that my father was a Christian. —Neko Case

Pro Life Quotes

There is no such thing as illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents. ― J Adam Snyder

The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. ― Pope Benedict XVI

No, I’m the human here. I’m the life at stake. I’m the one with fingernails, who feels pain. Me. ― Alicen Grey

We do not believe in murder! We believe in convenience in our careers, in our cuisine, in our kills, and in our definitions. ― Danielle Vanilla

Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of the adoptive parents. ― George Bush

It’s not that the preborn matter more, but that they matter just as much. — Anonymous

Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. – Catechism of the Catholic Church 2270

The legislature should do all it can to protect human life. – Sarah Palin

For decades, the pro-life movement has focused on scientific evidence and ethical arguments. – Michael Knowles

The notion that those of us that are pro-life because we love children – is that so terrible? Really? Is that so terrible? – Ken Cuccinelli

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Abortion, consequently, cannot be a human right—it is the very opposite. It is a deep wound in society. – Pope Benedict XVI

To love your neighbor is to take special concern for those who are vulnerable and who would otherwise be overlooked. — Jim Daly

The ‘life’ in ‘pro-life’ denotes not the quality of life, but life itself. – John Shimkus

I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion is already born. -Ronald Reagan

I’m pro-life. I’ll do all I can to see every baby is created with a future and potential. – Sarah Palin

You can’t reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty. – NT Wright

Controversial Pro-Choice Quotes

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body. —Margaret Sanger

Seventy-seven percent of anti-abortion leaders are men. 100% of them will never be pregnant. —Planned Parenthood

No woman has an abortion for fun. —Elizabeth Joan Smith

Against abortion? Don’t have one. —Anonymous

How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelet? —George Carlin

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control. —Ruth Bader Ginsburg

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. —Florynce Kennedy

No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg. —Frederica Mathewes-Green

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Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions. —Karl Kraus

It’s really easy to say you’re 100% against abortion when you’ll never have to make that decision. —Anonymous

Listen to the pregnant woman. Value her. She values the life growing inside her. Listen to the pregnant woman, and you cannot help but defend her right to abortion. —Ayelet Waldman

Abortion is the insurance against a fate worse than death which is called a family. —Peter Kreeft

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion. —Hillary Clinton

Sad Abortion Quotes

However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life. ~Robert Casey

Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless. – E.A. Bucchianeri

Don’t promise when you’re happy. Don’t reply when you’re angry and don’t decide when you’re sad.

I’ve noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born. – Ronald Reagan

Abortion may bury our children, but it can never bury their memory. – Shadia Hrichi

The crowning insult [of abortion] is that this ordeal is represented to her as some kind of a privilege. Her sad and onerous duty is garbed in the rhetoric of a civil right. — Germaine Greer

I think the meaning of abortion is what the woman says it is: For a woman who wants a child but can’t have this one, it can be sad; for a woman who doesn’t want a baby, it can feel like a huge relief, like having your whole life given back to you. ~Katha Pollitt

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Nothing can prepare a young woman for the lifetime of pain and loss that comes from abortion…

Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party. – Diane Abbott

My heart is broken and will always be. It’s something I have to cope with for the rest of my life…

Not a day goes by that I don’t think about what it would be like to still be pregnant and what my child would look like. I feel lonely and sad every day.

I have to wear a fake smile every single day because the girl who aborted her baby isn’t allowed to be sad…

It’s a sad state of affairs that we have only one choice (for abortion) right now. But if you have to go out of state, the cost of making that trip will be prohibitive. ~Charon Asetoyer

Abortion is the ultimate violence. – Robert Casey

In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman. – Leon Kass

Humanist Quotes on Abortion

The Roman Catholic church… carries the immense power of very directly affecting women’s lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion — Robin Morgan

I think abortion is something that, as a personal matter, I would advise somebody against. — Rudy Giuliani

While I was the mayor abortions in New York went down and adoptions went way up, because we worked on adoptions as an alternative, so that there’d be a real choice. — Rudy Giuliani

Feminazis have adopted abortion as a kind of sacrament for their religion/politics of alienation and bitterness. — Rush Limbaugh

Global warming is a political issue. It is as much a political issue to the left as abortion is. It’s as big a political issue as health care is. — Rush Limbaugh

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

In the old days, ptomaine poisoning was a cover-all. If you missed a show and you were young, it meant you were having an abortion. If you were old, it meant you were having a facelift. — Ruth Gordon

The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide. — Saint Basil

A woman who deliberately destroys a fetus is answerable for murder. And any fine distinction as to its being completely formed or unformed is not admissible amongst us. — Saint Basil

Since 9/11, right-wing extremists (incl anti-abortion, anti-gov) have killed more Americans than Islamic extremists, — Sally Kohn

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I want to get an abortion. But my boyfriend and I are having trouble conceiving. — Sarah

The immediate problem is, where will the doctors come from? — Sarah Weddington

Women, justifiably, feel vulnerable at a time so many years after their journey for reproductive freedom started. — Sarah Weddington

A pro-choice advocate sees abortion as a decision to be made in accordance with the best scientific opinion as to when the beginning of life, as we know it, occurs. — Stanley Fish

I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me. — Stanley Fish

My own views on abortion, I’m not on either pole of that and neither of the interest groups on either end of this issue would probably be comfortable with my views. — Stephen Harper

You can’t really protect women or men from their choices, so let them have their own lives and trust the process. — Stephen Singular

Pro-Choice Instagram Captions

We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children. — Joycelyn Elders

Fear has two meanings – Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours. — Unknown

She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg. — Frederica Mathewes-Green

Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice. — Zig Ziglar

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.

How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelet? — George Carlin

I’m pro-choice, I’m pro-gay rights, I’m pro-immigration, I’m against guns, and I believe in Darwin. — Michael Bloomberg

Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made. If you want a different result, make a different choice. — Unknown

This is about pro-choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman’s personal decisions about her life. — Kathleen Turner

Isn’t it interesting that all of those people who support the choice of abortion have already been born? — Ronald Reagan

I’m very much a humanist. I’m very much pro-choice. I’m very much politically correct. — Sandra Bernhard

Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living. — Ayn Rand

No matter how long you have traveled in the wrong direction, you always have the choice to turn around. — Unknown

I am pro-life. I do not apologize for that. On the flip side of that coin, the Republican Party has been big enough to allow pro-choice advocates to be heard. — J. C. Watts

If a politician is running in your local community who’s pro-choice, who’s feminist in their thinking, get behind them. Send them some money! If you have no money but have time, lick stamps! — Ani Difranco

Pro-Choice Quotes Short

No woman has an abortion for fun. —Elizabeth Joan Smith

I’m pro-choice. But I hope that choice will be life. ― Rush Limbaugh

If you are against abortions, don’t have one. ― Scott Andrews

The greatest destroyer and love and peace is abortion. — Mother Teresa

I accept that the unborn is a human life with rights. – Leo Varadkar

I think everyone’s against abortion. — Rupert Murdoch

Do you Know How To Stop Abortion? Require That Each One Occur With A Gun. — Rush Limbaugh

Just because my path is different doesn’t mean I’m lost. — Unknown

Patience is when you’re supposed to be mad but you choose to understand. — Unknown

Love means to be willing to give until it hurts. — Mother Teresa

I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion.— Hillary Clinton

Don’t feel sorry for yourself if you have chosen the wrong road. Turn around. — Edgar Cayce

If you can’t trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child? — Gayle Forman

You have only got three choices in life: give up, give in, or give it all you’ve got. — Kim Garst

My pro-choice activism keeps me busy. — Margot Kidder