Abortion Quotes

[Predictably, Cannon -- who's also an actor and host of MTV's new improv show, ''Nick Cannon Presents Wild 'N Out] -- has become a darling of the antiabortion movement. Numerous websites and blogs such as lifesite.net praise the video for its ''powerfully pro-life statement... of his mother's dilemma. Another site, generationlife.net, says the video ''represents the emerging passion in this generation speaking out on the issue of abortion. This is the first wave of a post-Roe v. Wade generation telling their side of the story. - Nick Cannon

[Political hot potato aside, there are real consequences for the center's actions, none of which appear to have any legal ramifications.] So many women who wind up over there have been told a whole set of info that isn't true... It's harder to get their trust here because they're told a host of lies, like there's a link to abortions and breast cancer, which absolutely isn't true. We have to undo all the fallacies. - Janet Nelson

[Obey struggles to balance the demands of his faith with the obligations of pluralism -- and for this, he receives few rewards. Recently, he offered an amendment to increase funding for child care, job training and domestic abuse programs as a way of] taking some of the pressure off women to have abortions. ... whose concern for life ends at the checkbook's edge. - David Obey

[In the wake of his comments last month that he would not apply an abortion-rights] litmus test ... understands viscerally reproductive rights as being related to women's human rights. ... But he's got to come up with some better language to talk about it. - Gloria Feldt

[First, he found in the Texas anti-abortion law no violation of due process because the traditional test--rational relation to a valid state objective--was easily satisfied. As to the majority in Roe having cranked up the test--the law could be sustained only if the State could show a] compelling state interest... the history of the Fourteenth Amendment. - William H. Rehnquist

[Democrats voiced their argument that Bush is too extreme on abortion for most voters.] Republicans try to avoid the issue to get nominated... They never can. - Joe Andrew

[As recently as last Friday, he warned Congress that if a catchall spending bill under consideration omits even one existing curtailment of federal funds for abortion, his advisers would recommend a veto.] It's a mistake to underrate his focus, ... They are persistent, and they are insistent. - Zoe Lofgren

[And Republican Representative Steve Largent of Oklahoma says that if RU-486 is approved he will co-sponsor legislation to keep it off the market.] Abortion, regardless of how you perform it, is killing children... If we can do it legislatively, I would be all for that. - Steve Largent