Quotes About Reproductive rights

I have - and always will - stand up against efforts to limit a woman's right to choose.

We can't afford to compromise on anything we have fought for - abortion is legal in our country, and I will do everything in my power to stand up for the rights of women and all people to choose when and how they build a family.

Men's reproduction isn't regulated by the state -- and it shouldn't be. Neither should women's.

So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? It's like we woke up in a bad episode of 'Mad Men'.

Contraception has to be available for anybody who needs it.

I want to have your abortion.

I think it's important that (Roe v. Wade) remain legal for medical reasons and other reasons.

Even those who, like me, believe that Roe v. Wade and the decisions elaborating on reproductive rights were constitutionally correct must recognize that, for many on the right, the sudden and relatively sloppily reasoned character of the abortion rulings... did real damage to the Court's reputation as a relatively neutral arbiter of legal disputes.

A birth control pill for men, that's fair. It makes more sense to take the bullets out of the gun than to wear a bulletproof vest.

It is important for women to have a choice, to have an opportunity to plan their families, because if they don't, the Republicans have said this is an ownership society. You are on your own, and they're going to begrudge that child everything, from WIC to a Pell Grant to health insurance.

There has to be some form of punishment [for women who have abortions].…You'll go back to a position like they had where people will perhaps go to illegal places, but you have to ban it."—interview on MSNBC, March 30, 2016

DT—three hours later] "The doctor or any other person performing this illegal act upon a woman would be held legally responsible, not the woman. The woman is a victim in this case as is the life in her womb."—donaldjtrump.com, March 30, 2016

If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support... autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.

If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies.

I don't think that women should be punished as Donald Trump said they should, for making the decision to have an abortion.

The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.

In reality, most women 'choose' abortion because they believe they have no other choice.

Whether by pill or invasive surgery, abortion is never good for women.

This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life.

I want women to have access to safe healthcare and be in control of their own bodies. I am a feminist. Everyone should be a feminist.

Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.

The first thing the male establishment wants to control is uterus and birth. You might call it womb envy. But even worse is the fact we are still using the male model of sexual response for women.

Abortion restrictions 'reduce pregnant women to no more than fetal containers.'

Women won't have total equality until men can get pregnant.