Celebrity Quotes on Abortion
Celebrities on Both Sides Get Real About Abortion
![In 2005, Nick Cannon told USA Today about the inspiration behind one of his songs:
"I didn't make the song ['Can I Live'] to make a political statement. I'm just thanking my mom for being strong."](https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/I4weAeCxg7GPl0nwpTEv457X6-k/fit-in/1024x1024/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-/2012/01/04/1/301/3019466/edd73f8099987580_137459710/i/2005-Nick-Cannon-told-USA-Today-about-inspiration-behind-one.jpg "In 2005, Nick Cannon told USA Today about the inspiration behind one of his songs:
\"I didn't make the song ['Can I Live'] to make a political statement. I'm just thanking my mom for being strong.\"")
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![In an Operation Rescue Newsletter, Gwyneth Paltrow and her mom Blythe Danner voiced their beliefs:
"[W]e are first and foremost a mother and daughter, and we cannot stand idly by as birth control, family planning, and basic health care come under attack . . . Such a personal decision should be made by families, not by politicians. We need common-sense solutions to the health issues we face throughout our lives. Planned Parenthood provides those solutions, helping millions of women each day, improving our communities and our families."](https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/vVrslIMD2M5ZPhov70a7G8NZ5tA/160x160/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-:sharpen-!1,0,true!-/2012/01/04/1/301/3019466/98220899995ee7fb_120169397/i/Operation-Rescue-Newsletter-Gwyneth-Paltrow-her-mom-Blythe.jpg "In an Operation Rescue Newsletter, Gwyneth Paltrow and her mom Blythe Danner voiced their beliefs:
\"[W]e are first and foremost a mother and daughter, and we cannot stand idly by as birth control, family planning, and basic health care come under attack . . . Such a personal decision should be made by families, not by politicians. We need common-sense solutions to the health issues we face throughout our lives. Planned Parenthood provides those solutions, helping millions of women each day, improving our communities and our families.\"")
![In 2006, Scarlett Johansson talked about abortion in an interview with Cosmopolitan:
"We are supposed to be liberated in America but if our President [George W. Bush] had his way, we wouldn't be educated about sex at all. Every woman would have six children and we wouldn't be able to have abortions."](https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/q5VlbgOl36EeX-ao4VNDyYqVQVA/160x160/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-:sharpen-!1,0,true!-/2012/01/04/1/301/3019466/626d828adfcbc2eb_135720554/i/2006-Scarlett-Johansson-talked-about-abortion-interview.jpg "In 2006, Scarlett Johansson talked about abortion in an interview with Cosmopolitan:
\"We are supposed to be liberated in America but if our President [George W. Bush] had his way, we wouldn't be educated about sex at all. Every woman would have six children and we wouldn't be able to have abortions.\"")
![Kirsten Dunst talked about abortion during an interview with Collider in 2010:
"I thought about the abortion scene [in All Good Things] a lot. It was something that his character decided. She was not going to have this baby. In my own way, I had to figure out how I could make it so that it could be my choice and I was not just succumbing under his rule.
I just thought, 'I wouldn't want to bring a baby into this marriage, since it is really not going well. I am young enough. I can have another child with someone else, somewhere down the line. Maybe he is not ready, right now in his life. A lot of things have happened.' I tried not to cry and play it like, 'Oh, poor me,' because that would be really boring.
I didn't want people to feel like, 'Just leave and have your baby.' She also didn't have the means, and it was a different time. She didn't come from money and she couldn't be a single mother so easily, like we have the option to now."](https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/xE-kULsEJR7afEr4OkNWSb5dL40/160x160/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-:sharpen-!1,0,true!-/2012/01/04/1/301/3019466/9621decf89970f48_137057361/i/Kirsten-Dunst-talked-about-abortion-during-interview-Collider.jpg "Kirsten Dunst talked about abortion during an interview with Collider in 2010:
\"I thought about the abortion scene [in All Good Things] a lot. It was something that his character decided. She was not going to have this baby. In my own way, I had to figure out how I could make it so that it could be my choice and I was not just succumbing under his rule.
I just thought, 'I wouldn't want to bring a baby into this marriage, since it is really not going well. I am young enough. I can have another child with someone else, somewhere down the line. Maybe he is not ready, right now in his life. A lot of things have happened.' I tried not to cry and play it like, 'Oh, poor me,' because that would be really boring.
I didn't want people to feel like, 'Just leave and have your baby.' She also didn't have the means, and it was a different time. She didn't come from money and she couldn't be a single mother so easily, like we have the option to now.\"")
![In the liner notes of his album Ben Folds Live, Ben Folds shared his personal experience with the issue:
"The song ['Brick'] is about when I was in high school, me and my girlfriend had to get an abortion, and it was a very sad thing. And, I didn't really want to write this song from any kind of political standpoint, or make a statement. I just wanted to reflect what it feels like. So, anyone who's gone through that before, then you'll know what the song's about."](https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/doSo7axmRZpBMlzulXcyvbzg0dQ/160x160/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-:sharpen-!1,0,true!-/2012/01/04/1/301/3019466/579ad8e4a954c010_134234129/i/liner-notes-his-album-Ben-Folds-Live-Ben-Folds-shared-his.jpg "In the liner notes of his album Ben Folds Live, Ben Folds shared his personal experience with the issue:
\"The song ['Brick'] is about when I was in high school, me and my girlfriend had to get an abortion, and it was a very sad thing. And, I didn't really want to write this song from any kind of political standpoint, or make a statement. I just wanted to reflect what it feels like. So, anyone who's gone through that before, then you'll know what the song's about.\"")
![Whoopi Goldberg talked about abortion on The View in 2007, highlighting the dangers of illegal procedures:
"Most women do not have [abortions] with some sort of party going on. It is the hardest decision that a woman ever has to make . . . One of the reasons we've had to make this decision is because so many women were found bleeding, dead, with hangers in their bodies because they were doing it themselves. The idea of this was to make it safe and clean — that was the reason the law came into effect."](https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/8qoNgK7o5ecbOAwylr-yMDlbfeM/160x160/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-:sharpen-!1,0,true!-/2013/01/04/2/301/3019466/25944d7a72ea4b9d_158017095/i/Whoopi-Goldberg-talked-about-abortion-View-2007.jpg "Whoopi Goldberg talked about abortion on The View in 2007, highlighting the dangers of illegal procedures:
\"Most women do not have [abortions] with some sort of party going on. It is the hardest decision that a woman ever has to make . . . One of the reasons we've had to make this decision is because so many women were found bleeding, dead, with hangers in their bodies because they were doing it themselves. The idea of this was to make it safe and clean — that was the reason the law came into effect.\"")
![Kanye West tweeted about abortion and gold diggers in 2011:
"[A]n abortion can cost a ballin' n**** up to 50gs maybe a 100. Gold diggin' bitches be getting pregnant on purpose. #STRAPUP my n*****!"](https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/bf5pfcCWq8kL49JTknzjMaU1pkg/160x160/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-:sharpen-!1,0,true!-/2012/01/04/1/301/3019466/5e7399d13e8ef7e1_127905427/i/Kanye-West-tweeted-about-abortion-gold-diggers-2011n.jpg "Kanye West tweeted about abortion and gold diggers in 2011:
\"[A]n abortion can cost a ballin' n**** up to 50gs maybe a 100. Gold diggin' bitches be getting pregnant on purpose. #STRAPUP my n*****!\"")
![In 2005, Nick Cannon told USA Today about the inspiration behind one of his songs:
"I didn't make the song ['Can I Live'] to make a political statement. I'm just thanking my mom for being strong."](https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/O9JuifQNjRMnksrE4mbvbX2XAM4/160x160/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-:sharpen-!1,0,true!-/2012/01/04/1/301/3019466/edd73f8099987580_137459710/i/2005-Nick-Cannon-told-USA-Today-about-inspiration-behind-one.jpg "In 2005, Nick Cannon told USA Today about the inspiration behind one of his songs:
\"I didn't make the song ['Can I Live'] to make a political statement. I'm just thanking my mom for being strong.\"")
