Circumstances Quote by Leana S. Wen

Abortion, more than not, leaves women with an aftermath of grief, guilt, and emotional overload. In a lot of cases, this can last a…

— Abby Johnson

There's a difference between early and late abortions. If you have a late abortion, where the fetus might feel pain, then I think you…

— Peter Singer

Abortions can be, and frequently are, traumatizing, as are other invasive surgeries performed to the sexual and internal organs. All or any of these…

— Peter A. Levine

The root cause of abortion is the failure to be satisfied in God as our supreme love. And, for all the great legal work…

— John Piper

The act of abortion positions women at their most powerful, and that is why it is so strongly opposed by many in society. Historically…

— Merle Hoffman

Every 36 seconds in America a woman lays her body down forced to choose abortion out of a lack of practical resources and emotional…

— Patricia Heaton

It is not possible to think of a way of screening out effectively the most appropriate embryos, and hence, what we should expect would…

— Ian Wilmut

The woman is constantly aware for nine months that her body is not wholly her own: the state has conscripted her body for its…

— Dawn Johnsen

Abortion happens because of economic circumstances.

— Nat Hentoff

Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy,…

— Alice Walker

So far it has been assumed that the only pregnancies which are aborted are accidental ones and the only foetuses destroyed those whose mothers…

— Germaine Greer

In medical practice, there are few surgical procedures given so little attention and so underrated in its potential hazard as abortion.

— Warren Hern