A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.

I am grateful that I have rights in the proverbial public square - but, as a practical matter, my most cherished rights are those that I possess in my bedroom and hospital room and death chamber.

The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in a cloud of inevitability, that we forget they are ideas at all.

I would prefer to believe that a market in fetal organs would empower women to use their reproductive capabilities to their own economic advantage.

The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuading yourself to stop.

Nothing sells tombstones like a Girl Scout in uniform.

Most people are far more concerned that they can control their own bodies than they are about petitioning Congress.