Pro Choice Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old pro choice quotes, pro choice sayings, and pro choice proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents. A choice is only possible if there are genuine alternatives. Germaine Greer
Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want. Mother Teresa
Being pro-choice is trusting the individual to make the right decision for herself and her family, and not entrusting that decision to anyone wearing the authority of government in any regard. Hillary Clinton
Pro-choice supporters are often heard using the cool language of the courts and the vocabulary of rights. Americans who are deeply ambivalent about abortion often miss tthe sound of caring. Ellen Goodman
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
When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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
No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother. Margaret Sanger
The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. Abortion is profamily, prolife, moral, and good. For many millions of women, abortion has meant getting on with their lives and continuing to meet their responsibilities to themselves, their families, and society. Patricia Lunneborg
Abortion is the insurance against that fate worse than death which is called a family. Peter Kreeft
One method of destroying a concept is by diluting its meaning. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living. Ayn Rand
To forbid birth is only quicker murder. He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed. Tertullian
Abortion should not only be safe and legal, it should be rare. Bill Clinton
The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive. Aristotle
No woman has an abortion for fun. Elizabeth Joan Smith
Choice precedes action as day precedes night. John A. Andrews
When you have to make choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice. William James
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. Oscar Wilde
In eating corn on the cob or watermelon, you have a choice: you can be fastidious, or you can enjoy it. Olin Miller
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, everybody gets busy on the proof. Vincenzo Berghella
Life must be lived personally, making your own choices, making your own successes and failures. Vincenzo Berghella
Quality of life is a function of the choices we make. Vincenzo Berghella
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. Mildred Barthel
Life is the sum of all your choices. Albert Camus
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. George Eliot
You can take two people in exact opposite situations and one of them will end up being a leader; the other washes out because of the choices he makes. Pat Williams
You build integrity every single day with the choices you make. Bob Kerry
Character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradually turn who you are at any given moment. David Deford