Quotes About Reproductive

For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option it is a basic health care necessity.

Periods are ridiculous girls shouldnt be punished for not getting pregnant.

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

Firestone's comprehensive vision of a future, more progressive era defined by greater reproductive control seems strongly influenced by the tradition that equated technological innovation with social progress through greater mastery of human evolution— a tradition we might call progressive biofuturism.

It is for this reason that the candidate assumes the vows of celibacy, for the close connection existing in the advanced disciple between the brain and the reproductive system necessitates an absolute conservation of all life energies.

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

Every woman should be "absolute mistress of her own body.

Reproductive freedom means economic freedom. And that's what this debate is about.

Reproductive freedom is a real danger for the patriarchy, because it means that women are empowered.

Beyond the immediate risks to her health and the health of her baby, when a woman chooses c-section, she decreases the chance that she will be able to get pregnant again and increases the chance that if she does get pregnant, the pregnancy will occur outside the uterus, a situation that never results in a live baby and is life-threatening to the woman. Furthermore, the risk of having an unexplained stillbirth doubles when a woman has had a previous c-section.

En ausencia de métodos anticonceptivos eficaces o de posibilidades de abortar con asistencia médica, la promiscuidad sexual posee consecuencias sumamente diferentes para las mujeres.

From stalking to chastity belts to female genital mutilation, throughout history men have tried to control women's sexuality and reproductive choices. And women have developed several strategies in response: contraception, abortion, clandestine affairs, mariticide (killing one's husband), and infanticide.

The pill" was first approved for prescription use in the United States in June 1960. By 1967, an estimated five million American women were taking the pills every month.4

heavy bleeding in the premenopausal years is in fact normal.

That has been the pattern again and again: With the best of intentions, pro-life conservatives have taken some positions in reproductive health that actually hurt those whom they are trying to help—and that result in more abortions.

Would the world stand by if it were men who were dying just for completing their reproductive functions? —ASHA-ROSE MIGIRO, UN DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL, 2007

The right to sterilize was about government interference in the reproductive process; the right to abort is about barring government interference in it. But at bottom the moral stake is arguably the same: the sanctity of human life.