Just because something happens to be legal does not make it moral, ethical or right. Abortion is perhaps one of the most dramatic examples of a situation where something is legal, but is very much a sin against God.

If anybody reads an Indian newspaper, all these things are obvious, and so I am not breaking news. All I am doing is representing my community as it actually is. Also, I have to assume that readers are sophisticated enough to know that not every person in a community is the same, and so there are many people who would not force an abortion just because a fetus is female. Even within my stories, people hold opposing views.

Interestingly, in Cuba abortion is treated as lightly as getting a mole removed.

Both childbirth and abortion are medical procedures but neither is an illness, and sometimes they're both treated as such.

The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery.

If you subsidize an activity you get more of it. It's encouraging the behavior that leads to more clients for abortion clinics.

The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus.

Pataki might think ethanol will win him farm votes in Iowa. But when he's carrying the weight of his liberal views on abortion and gay rights, a boutique tax cut for alternative fuels won't put much in Pataki's tank for a presidential race.

I said to my husband, what will Slava be worth in five years? Every day people pay $30,000 for a new car and trade it off in a few years, but what will he be worth? He's blended in to our family so well. Sending him back there (to Russia) is to me the equivalent of abortion because living out there is like living on the outskirts of hell.

I believe we should live in a society where abortion is rare but safe.