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The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.

Expanding eligibility of family planning services to low-income women will maximize cost-savings to both federal and state governments, reduce the disparities in access to family planning services for low-income women, and decrease the incidence of abortion in the U.S.

The issue is not abortion. The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do.

I'm against abortion.

Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

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

I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can possibly be the same people who are for abortion? They are the same people who are for animal rights, but they are not for the rights of the unborn.

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

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.

In addition, the bill passed by the House requires a person performing an abortion on a minor from a different state to notify one parent in the home state.

The papers reveal that in several key abortion cases, justices were keenly interested in the perceived public reaction to their rulings - indicating that courts can be influenced by public sentiment.

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.

But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion.

I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.

That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.

I think abortion is murder.

The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.

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

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

I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.