"Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their……" — Barack Obama

"Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns in to universal, rather than religion-specific, values... it requires that their proposals be subject to argument and amenable to reason. Now I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, to take one example, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God's will. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all."

— Barack Obama

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One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent. — Napoleon Bonaparte
The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion;… — Julie Burchill
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies… — Edmund Burke
I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else. — Barbara Bush
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