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Abortion on demand has, in my judgment, contributed significantly to an environment in our country in which life has become very cheap.

Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.

We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.

There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.

Every second, every day, every year, we fail to address demand for reproductive health and family planning services. Lives are lost, and girls' opportunities to thrive and contribute to their country's development shrink. These are real people.

There's this huge number of desperate people.

The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.

A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe.