Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The right to privacy... is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.
The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
But responsibility likewise falls on the legislators who have promoted and approved abortion laws, and, to the extent that they have a say in the matter, on the administrators of the health-care centers where abortions are performed. In this sense abortion goes beyond the responsibility of individuals and beyond the harm done to them, and takes on a distinctly social dimension. It is a most serious wound inflicted on society and its culture by the very people who ought to be societys promoters and defenders.