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• The issue is who decides, the woman or the state. It’s about freedom of choice.

• The government has no right to interfere in people’s personal choices.

• The government has no right to come into our bedrooms.

• No one has the right to tell a woman she has to have a child.

• The government should not be involved in the practice of medicine.

• The government has an obligation to fund abortions for poor women.

• Government should stay out of abortion. Don’t subsidize it and don’t prohibit it.

• I’d rather pay $300 for a welfare mom’s abortion than thousands to raise her kid.

• I am against abortion but I look at all the issues. Besides, most political offices have nothing to do with abortion.

• We should not have litmus tests for politicians and judges.

• Abortion is about empowering women.

• It’s the woman’s body. It’s her decision.

• Abortion is a women’s issue. Men have no right to even be involved.

• What others believe about abortion is irrelevant. All that matters is what the woman believes.

• The issue is whether we trust women to be their own moral agents.

• If abortion is illegal, how will women who miscarry convince the authorities that they didn't actually illegal abortions?

• What gives you the right to tell a woman she can’t terminate her pregnancy?

• Women must be free to control their reproductive lives.

• The Supreme Court settled this once and for all. They said that women have a constitutional right to abortion.

• Why should a fetus have more rights than the woman?

• I am not for abortion on demand. I support the compromise in Roe v. Wade.

• How can a fetus have constitutional rights before it is viable?

• How can tissue only a quarter of an inch in diameter have constitutional rights?

• The Constitution says that people have to be “born or naturalized in the United States” to have rights. A fetus is not born.

• By English Common Law, abortion was legal when our Constitution was written.

• There is no consensus for outlawing abortion. Most Americans are pro-choice.

• I am pro-life, but I think abortion should be allowed in certain situations.

• Why should abortion be illegal if the pregnancy threatens the woman’s life?

• How can you tell a woman whose fetus is handicapped that she has to have it?

• Why should a woman who was the victim of rape or incest have to bear a child?

• If abortion is illegal, what should the penalty be for a woman who has one?

• No woman ever wanted an abortion. They only do it when they have good reasons.

• Outlawing abortion will impose an unequal burden on poor women. Wealthy women will just go to other countries.

• This is the toughest decision a woman will ever make. No one has a right to interfere.

• Why shouldn’t a woman whose baby is going to die anyway have an abortion?

• I don’t like surgical abortions, but there’s nothing wrong with the abortion pill.

• What about a woman who can’t afford another child or isn’t ready to be a mom?

• How can you deny women health care?

• If abortion is outlawed women will again be killed in back-alley abortions.

• Late-term abortions are not done unless the woman’s life is in danger or the baby is already dead or couldn’t survive.

• What about a 14-year-old girl who finds herself pregnant?

• The answer to abortion is not in making it against the law but in changing hearts. You cannot legislate morality.

• You have no right to tell others what to believe. You people are just anti-choice extremists.

• I am personally opposed to abortion, but I can’t inflict my beliefs on others.

• Someone can be opposed to abortion but still be pro-choice.

• This is a religious issue and you have no right to force your beliefs on other people. Keep your Rosaries off my ovaries!

• Is it possible for someone to be pro-choice and a Christian?

• The Bible does not condemn abortion and Jesus never spoke out against it.

• I know abortion is wrong, but I don’t feel the Lord leading me to take a stand on it.

• God gave us free will and it is not our place to judge women who have abortions.

• Abortion is just one of many issues the church has to be concerned about.

• I believe that abortion is wrong, but the solution is prayer.

• My job is to save souls, not bodies. Besides, those babies go to heaven anyway.

• If a woman isn’t ready for a baby, maybe it’s best that she abort and ask God to bring the child back at a better time.

• When a woman miscarries, did God do an abortion on her?

• Theologians can’t agree when a soul enters the body.

• The fetus is only a potential human life.

• No one can prove when life begins. It is up to the woman to decide.

• If a baby is not a white, healthy, newborn it stands little chance of being adopted.

• There are more abortions than people waiting to adopt. What do we do after these people have gotten a baby?

• What about the children who get adopted by people who abuse or neglect them?

• What about a woman who says she could not carry a child for nine months and then give it up for adoption?

• Why don’t you help people who are already here, like the homeless?

• We have a nation of babies having babies.

• Millions of children are already starving.

• What about overpopulation?

• I don’t want to pay for all the social problems created by unwanted children.

• To end child abuse, we need to make sure that every child is a wanted child.

• Some children are forced to lead terrible lives. Isn’t abortion better than that?

• Contraception is the answer to abortion.

• Why do the same people who oppose abortion always fight against sex education and birth control?

• Why should a woman who is acting responsibly be forced into motherhood just because her birth control failed?

• Abortion is safer than childbirth.

• Abortion is not used as birth control.

• Let’s set aside our differences and look for common ground. We should look for ways to end the need for abortion.

• How can people call themselves pro-life and support every war that comes along?

• Pro-lifers talk about the sanctity of human life but most support the death penalty.

• Why do you oppose fetal tissue research and embryonic stem cell research when so many lives could be saved?

• When a pro-lifer’s daughter gets pregnant, they quickly become pro-choice converts.

• How can you call yourselves pro-life when your movement is so violent?

• How can conservatives justify the government taking away a citizen’s rights?

• Abortion should be safe, legal, and rare.

• The fact that the Ku Klux Klan is pro-life shows just what kind of bigots oppose legal abortion.

• What’s the big deal? Abortion is just a simple five-minute procedure.

• Outlawing abortion will not end it. Women will always have abortions.

• Don’t like abortion? Don’t have one.

• Those graphic abortion pictures are not real. They’re stillbirths and miscarriages.

• Doctors don’t do abortions for the money. Abortions are about $300 but a doctor can make thousands for a delivery.

• Our abortion clinic routinely gets letters from women telling us how grateful they are for the service we provided them.

• I’ve known several women who had abortions and they didn’t regret it at all.

• Have you pro-lifers ever thought about the possibility that you may be wrong?

• I’m pro-choice but I’m uncomfortable with the idea of women having multiple abortions.