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Tuesday 24th of March 2026

Abortion During slavery, a lot of the slaveowners thought that they had the right to do whatever they wanted to that slave. Ben Carson, comparing women who have abortions to slaveowners © 2015 Kwiple.com
Abortion [E]vidence from national surveys shows that the odds of being against abortion under all circumstances with the only exception of rape or incest rises steadily as town size decreases, taking into account other differences due to age, gender, education, and region. Compared to cities of at least 250,000, the odds of opposing abortion in the smallest towns are more than three times higher. Robert Wuthnow, The Left Behind © 2018 Kwiple.com
Abortion For the Republicans,  the Supreme Court is all about abortions,  to which they remain staunchly opposed  right up to the moment their mistress gets pregnant. Bill Maher, Real Time With Bill Maher, July 6, 2018, alluding to Tim Murphy, the anti-abortion Republican congressman who was forced to resign in October, 2017, for asking his mistress to get an abortion after a pregnancy scare © 2018 Kwiple.com
Abortion How many of the women rallying against overturning Roe are over-educated, under-loved millennials who sadly return from protests to a lonely microwave dinner with their cats, and no bumble matches? Matt Gaetz, 6:20 AM – May 4, 2022, proving himself to be, yet again, a snarky asshole who knows nothing about the demographics of abortion in America or anything else he blathers on about, except sex trafficking young girls and driving while intoxicated © 2022 Kwiple.com
Abortion How's this for an ad? [for Democrats] Democrats support abortion. So do Republicans when they need one for their girlfriend. Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, March 16, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Abortion I think the majority of people in Michigan will be for abortion … well certainly in Michigan they'll vote for it because they think what's going to be aborted generally are the little black bastards. Richard Nixon © 2015 Kwiple.com
Abortion I've been to countries where governments either forced women to have abortions, like they used to do in China, or forced women to bear children, like they used to do in Romania. And I can tell you, the government has no business in the decisions that women make with their families, in accordance with their faith, with medical advice. Hillary Clinton © 2016 Kwiple.com
Abortion I would like to see it done in the right way. Ben Carson, who would like to make a public commitment to overturn Roe v. Wade , even in cases of incest or rape or when the mother's life or health is threatened, a prerequisite for being appointed to the Supreme Court © 2015 Kwiple.com
Abortion @IAHouseGOP just confirmed in committee that if a woman has a miscarriage after 20 weeks, she has to carry dead fetus to term @ProgressIowa, 6:40 PM – 29 Mar 2017, on a bill advanced by Republicans in the Iowa House of Representatives to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy © 2017 Kwiple.com
Abortion If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. popularized by Florynce Kennedy and Gloria Steinem, spoken to by a Boston woman cabdriver © 2015 Kwiple.com
Abortion If you don’t think abortion is an economic issue, you probably don’t have a uterus. Gretchen Whitmer © 2023 Kwiple.com
Abortion In Ho’s legal analogy, then, patients undergoing abortion are akin to damaged natural landscapes or wildlife sanctuaries. Antiabortion doctors, meanwhile, play the role of disappointed tourists. Rhonda Garelick, Los Angeles Times, August 22, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Abortion [I]t is notable that banning late-term abortion would have little impact on the roughly 630,000 abortions carried out in America each year. Only about 1% take place after 21 weeks. And they are often a response to the sorts of exceptional circumstances, including threats to the mother's life or abnormalities in the fetus, that existing state-level bans on late-term abortion, as well as public opinion, tend to allow. The main reason Mr Trump is harping on the issue is political. Economist, February 16, 22019 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Abortion Know what I like about 16? It’s even. It’s four months. Donald Trump, on why he supports a 16-week nationwide ban on abortion © 2024 Kwiple.com
Abortion Stare decisis,  the doctrine on which Casey's controlling opinion was based, does not compel adherence to Roe's abuse of judicial authority. Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division. It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people's elected representatives. Samuel Alito, February 10, 2022, initial draft of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Abortion There are times when an abortion's necessary like when you have a black and a white. Richard Nixon © 2015 Kwiple.com
Abortion [T]here has to be some form of punishment [for the women]. Donald Trump © 2019 Kwiple.com
Abortion To construe abortion as a crime against the privilege of looking inside women [as judge James Ho does in defending  standing for antiabortion doctors trying to reverse mifepristone’s federal approval] is to construe them as objects offered up for the visual consumption, pleasure and, of course, control of others. Rhonda Garelick, Los Angeles Times, August 22, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Abortion To women like myself, they [abortion rights] are the bare minimum of human rights. To working-class women, who often see motherhood, not work, as the key source of social honor, obsession with abortion rights among well-off women is selfish, exemplifying lack of an adequate devotion to family. Seen in this light, opposition to abortion rights becomes, for high-school educated women, a way of claiming social honor. Joan C. Williams, The Guardian, August 23, 2017 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Abortion Unborn babies are a source of profound joy for those who view them. Expectant parents eagerly share ultrasound photos with loved ones. Friends and family cheer at the sight of an unborn child. Doctors delight in working with their unborn patients — and experience an aesthetic injury when they are aborted. James Ho — Federlist Society member, former clerk to Clarence Thomas, Trump-appointed judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit — affirming male antiabortion doctors' standing to sue to reverse mifepristone’s federal approval because they're harmed by being denied jollies from peering into pregnant women's wombs © 2023 Kwiple.com
Abortion We hold that Roe [v. Wade] and [Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. ] Casey must be overruled.  The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely — the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. That provision has been held to guarantee some rights that are not mentioned in the Constitution, but any such right must be “deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition” and “implicit in the concept of ordered liberty.” Washington v. Glucksberg, 521 U. S. 702, 721 (1997) Samuel Alito, February 10, 2022, initial draft of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Abortion A woman who gave her name as Wilson died at Chippewa Falls from a criminal operation performed upon herself. Her parents live near Eau Claire . . . her brother took charge of her remains. The woman was young and pretty and visited every physician in Chippewa Falls to accomplish her object, but without success. Badger State Banner, April 6, 1893, quoted by Michael Lesy in Wisconsin Death Trip © 2024 Kwiple.com
Abortion Yeah, well, they'll perhaps have to go, they'll have to go to another state. Donald Trump, on what women wanting abortions may have to do after judges he appoints to the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade, turning abortion law over to the states © 2016 Kwiple.com
Abortion You can take the baby and rip the baby out of the womb in the ninth month, on the final day. Donald Trump, describing what doesn't happen even in cases of late term abortion under current abortion laws © 2016 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say But remember this, every legal scholar for 53 years has said that issue [abortion] is a state issue from a legal standpoint. And it's starting to work that way. … Every legal scholar, Democrat, Republican, and other wanted that issue back at the states. Donald Trump © 2024 Kwiple.com
By the numbers 46 states allow medical professionals to personally refuse to participate in an abortion 43 states allow healthcare institutions to refuse to perform abortions 42 states prohibit abortions after a certain gestational age 19 states ban the use of the dilation and extraction procedure (perjoratively labeled “partial birth” abortion), and 9 states even restrict private companies from providing abortion coverage in insurance policies (so much for free markets) Salvatore Babones, Sixteen for '16 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Number of states that offer pro-life license plates: 29 That offer pro-choice license plates: 3  Harper's Index, October 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Number of U.S. states in which women would be at risk of losing their abortion rights were Roe v. Wade  overturned: 33 Harper's Index, April 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Here in America, we have been complicit in terminating the lives of in excess of 50 million precious unborn childen, and don't you think almighty God is going to hold us accountable for that? … It's coming ladies and gentle- men. We just have a little taste of it in terms of the financial system, but it's going to get shaken to its core in the next few months, years or however long it takes, and it will hurt every one of us. Pat Robertson blaming financial collapses on abortion © 2015 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say If you don't believe abortion doesn't affect you, I contend if affects you in immigration. If we had those 40 million children that were killed over the last 30 years, we wouldn't need the illegal immigrants to fill the jobs that they are doing today. Think about it. Tom DeLay © 2015 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say This is os typical of the left to immediately begin demonizing a messenger because they don't agree with the message. Carly Fiorina, objecting to statements by a Planned Parenthood official who linked right-wing propaganda and demonizing of the organization to the murder of three and the wounding of nine at a Colorodo Planned Parenthood facility by an anti-abortion domestic terrorist, who she called a "protester" © 2015 Kwiple.com
Hypocrites say I get what you say about my march for life messages. I've never written them. Staff does them. Tim Murphy, a leading anti-abortion/pro-life legislator, responding to his mistress, who texted him: “You have zero issue posting your pro-life stance all over the place when you had no issue asking me to abort our unborn child just last week.” © 2017 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Require all hospitals receiving federal funds or funding to provide free abortions on demand © 2016 Kwiple.com
Liars say Every Democrat, every Republican,  everybody wanted Roe v. Wade terminated and brought back to the states. Donald Trump © 2024 Kwiple.com
Peckerheads say It's known for its extremely strong and sharp talons with which it grasps its prey, but it grasps them with its talons and then uses its razor-sharp beak to rip its victims to shreds and to basically tear it apart limb by limb, and I guess the shame about making this a state bird is it would serve as a much better mascot for Planned Parenthood. Warren Groen, Tea Party Republican, NH House of Representatives and anti- abortion crusader, opposing a bill proposed by 4th graders as part of a civics lesson in law- making to make the red-tailed hawk NH's state raptor and who watched from the gallery, confused, aghast and dumbstruck © 2015 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say Well, Bill, your mother made a choice and we are all living with the consequences of it. Katie Porter responding to Bill Maher, who said he was “squishy” about pro-choice abortion rights, while being interviewed by him on his show © 2023 Kwiple.com
Racists say I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could — if that were your sole purpose — you could abort every black baby in this country and your crime rate would go down. William “Bill” Bennett, Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Education from 1985 to 1988 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Reich wingers say A feminazi is a woman to whom the most important thing in life is seeing to it that as many abortions as possible are performed. Rush Limbaugh © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Defunding Planned Parenthood is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Give women seeking an abortion a coat hanger and bottle of bleach © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Imposing the “global gag rule” that prohibits any USAid funding going to NGOs that fail to certify they will not use funds from any source whatsoever to perform or even mention abortions anywhere in the world, is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Make all abortions D.I.Y. abortions © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Prohibit insurance companies from insuring doctors who perform abortions © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Sacrifice women on the altar of their unborn © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Submit women seeking an abortion to a public shaming session © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Terrorize doctors who perform abortions © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Thank God for Christians who only care about abortion and homosexuality © 2016 Kwiple.com
Resisters say Hey Trump: Roe v. Wade was not the beginning of abortions. It was the end of women dying from them. Placard, Women's March on Washington, January 21, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Resisters say If I make my uterus a corporation will yall stop regulating it? Placard, Women's March on Washington, January 21, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Resisters say If I wanted the gov't in my vagina I'd fuck a Senator Placard, Women's March on Washington, January 21, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Resisters say My body my choice  Placard, Women's March on Washington, January 21, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Resisters say Never again  Text beside a wire coat hanger, Women's March on Washington, January 21, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Resisters say Viagra is gov't funded ($41.6 mil/yr) If pregnancy is GOD'S WILL so is LIMP DICK  Placard, New York City International Women's Day March, March 8, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Resisters say We deserve better  Text beside a wire coat hanger, Women's March on Washington, January 21, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Selfie  I don’t judge anyone for being pro-choice, any more than I want you to judge me for being pro-life. Nikki Haley © 2024 Kwiple.com
Selfie I voted for every pro-life bill that came before me. Nikki Haley [Including ones without exceptions for rape or incest] © 2024 Kwiple.com
Selfie I'm the one who got rid of Roe v. Wade and everyone said that was an impossible thing to do. Donald Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
The Senate Because of the way the modern Senate has has evolved, combined with the trends of of polarization and negative partisanship that have shaped America, this faction [of  wealthy white anti-choice conservatives] is able to wield power far out of proportion to its numbers. The modern Senate gives it the power to exercise a veto over policies backed by a majority of the population and makes likely that it will have the power do so in perpetuity. This is not just a minority. This is a superminority. Adam Jentleson, Kill Switch © 2021 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Abortion is never necessary to save a woman's life © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Evangelicals would stop supporting Donald Trump if evidence came forward that the phrase “paternity information” in his boilerplate non-disclosure agreement for women he's had an affair with is aimed at preventing them from disclosing information about abortions he's paid for © 2018 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say In an emergency, even a Catholic hospital will provide abortion services because hospitals are prohibited from denying emergency care by medical ethics and  federal law © 2016 Kwiple.com
Supreme Court Last night, the Court silently acquiesced in a State’s enactment of a law that flouts nearly 50 years of federal precedents. Today, the Court belatedly explains that it declined to grant relief because of procedural complexities of the State’s own invention. Because the Court’s failure to act rewards tactics designed to avoid judicial review and inflicts significant harm on the applicants and on women seeking abortions in Texas, I dissent. Sonia Sotomayor, September 1, 2021, on the decision by Justices Alito, Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Thomas to not enjoin an unconstitutional Texas law that banned abortions after six weeks of pregnancy and allowed Texas to evade judicial scrutiny by empowering bounty hunters to enforce it © 2021 Kwiple.com
Supreme Court Today’s ruling illustrates just how far the Court’s “shadow-docket“ decisions may depart from the usual principles of appellate process. … the majority’s decision is emblematic of too much of this Court’s shadow docket decisionmaking — which every day becomes more unreasoned, inconsistent, and impossible to defend. Elena Kagan, September 1, 2021, on the decision by Justices Alito, Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Thomas to not enjoin an unconstitutional Texas law that banned abortions after six weeks of pregnancy and allowed Texas to evade judicial scrutiny by empowering bounty hunters to enforce it © 2021 Kwiple.com
Supreme Court Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts? I don’t see how it is possible. Sonia Sotomajor, December 1, 2021, during oral arguments in the Mississippi abortion case, the latest in a series of cases conservatives on the Court are using to whittle away the right to an abortion © 2021 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest It's such a pity that Congressman Tim Murphy terminated his career before it came to term. Trevor Noah, on the anti-abortionist forced to resign when the public learned he had asked his mistress to have an abortion © 2017 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say All the Swifties want is swift abortions. Charlie Kirk © 2024 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Embryos, to me, are babies. Nikki Haley © 2024 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say First of all, from what I understand from doctors, that's really rare. If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. Todd Akin, responding to a question about whether women who became pregnant as a result of being raped should be allowed to end the pregnancy via abortion © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I came to realize: life is that gift from God that I think, even if life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that is something that God intended to happen. Richard Earl Mourdock © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I don't care if @realDonaldTrump wants to perform abortions in White House after this immigration policy paper. Ann Coulter, 9:36 AM – 16 Aug 2015 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say If you are pregnant, God made you completely capable to be a mother, and he will provide for you, as you strive in life and become a mother. Motherhood will be the most incredible journey of your entire life, bringing you continuous joy you’ve never known. Marjorie Taylor Greene, 9:06 AM – Jun 28, 2022  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say It's not whether a woman should be forced to bring a child to term;  it’s whether a child should be allowed to live even though the circumstances of that child's birth are somehow inconvenient or a problem to the society. J. D. Vance, talking about abortion in cases of rape or incest © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Personally, no. I do not. I believe life begins at conception. Every life is valuable. And those are my personal beliefs. Philip Gunn, Republican House Speaker in Mississippi, responding to a reporter who asked him on June 24, 2022, just hours after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, whether he thought abortion should be legal in “the case of a 12-year-old girl who was molested by her father or uncle?” © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say President Trump, on behalf of all the MAGA patriots in America, I want to thank you for the historic victory for white life in the Supreme Court yesterday. Mary Miller, Trump-endorsed candidate for election to the House of Representatives from Illinois's 15th Congressional District, celebrating overturning of Roe v. Wade at a June 25, 2022, Mendon, Illinois rally attended by Trump © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Sadly, by the way, there’s a lot of suburban women, a lot of suburban women that are like, “Listen, abortion’s it! If I can’t have an abortion in this country whenever I want, I will vote for anybody else!” It’s a little crazy, by the way, but, especially for women that are past 50. I’m thinking to myself, “I don’t think that’s an issue for you.” Thank God my wife didn't hear that one. Bernie Moreno, Trump-endorsed Republican candidate for senator from Ohio in 2024 wowing the ladies © 2024 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say There should not be involvement from the federal government in how states decide their abortion decisions. As a physician, I've been in the room when there’s some difficult conversations happening. I don’t want the federal government involved with that at all. I want women, doctors, local political leaders, letting the democracy that's always allowed our nation to thrive to put the best ideas forward so states can decide for themselves. Mehmet Oz  [imaging states are the best protectors of rights and "local political leaders" are impartial] © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say We don’t need a federal ban [on abortion] when we have Comstock on the books. … I think the pro-life groups should  keep their mouths shut as much as possible until the [2024] election. Jonathan Mitchell [Their objective is to estsblish a nationwide ban on abortion by enforcing the Comstock Act  of 1873, which makes it illegal to use the mail to  distribute anything “obcene,” including anything pertaining to abortion and contracepti0n] © 2024 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Why is it that the women with the least  likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions? Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb. Matt Gaetz © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say You put very sexy things like abortion and marijuana on the ballot,  and a lot of young people come out and vote. It was a secret sauce for disaster in Ohio. I don't know what they were thinking. Thank goodness that most of the states in this country don't allow you to put everything on the ballot. because democracies are not the way to run a country. Rick santorum, after Republicans in Ohio and elsewhere who attemped to ban abortion and prevent decriminalizing marijuana were defeated in the 2023 off-year elections © 2023 Kwiple.com
 
Truth Social It went public [earlier this week]. He made $5 billion. Idiots bought shares in this money-losing imitation Twitter that no one uses. This is why Trump is never really going to be against abortion: he needs a sucker born every minute. Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, March 29, 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com