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Quotes About Reproductive rights

Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can't even yet agree on what their laws should be.
~ Melinda Gates
Late-term abortions are unconscionable.
~ Stephen Fincher
There will always be issues where an abortion is necessary.
~ Ruth Westheimer
Most people, I think, have accepted that it's not up to them to control other people's choices, except, it seems, when it comes to Washington, D.C., where everyone has an opinion about people's uteruses.
~ Shonda Rhimes
A woman has a right to a safe, legal abortion. I've never wavered in that position since I was, like, eight years old and realized what was going on when I heard my mother arguing with people about the issue.
~ Elizabeth May
After the first trimester, I do think that there is some room for the government to intervene, because at that point, it is an unborn child that could be viable on its own.
~ Tomi Lahren
The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
~ Garry Trudeau
Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn't get pregnant.
~ Kathleen Parker
In the end, the judge ruled that no woman has "the right to copulate with a feeling of security that there will be no resulting conception": if a woman isn't willing to die in childbirth, she shouldn't have sex.
~ Jill Lepore
The "basis of Feminism," Sanger said, had to be a woman's control over her own body, "the right to be a mother regardless of church or state."15
~ Jill Lepore
this was indeed some crazy world, where the waiting period to get an abortion was longer than the waiting period to get a gun.
~ Jodi Picoult
To be clear, any abortion that takes place is one too many. But if it has to take place, then I think it should be available, and it should be available in a safe way.
~ Alexander De Croo
No matter what your views are on abortion, the Eighth Amendment in the Constitution is a very cruel, cruel law which benefits no one.
~ Aisling Bea
Abortion is the ultimate violence.
~ Robert Casey
For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option it is a basic health care necessity.
~ Louise Slaughter
Louie believed that those white men with their signs and slogans were not really there for the unborn, but there for the women who carried them. They couldn't control women's sexual independence. To them, this was the next best thing.
~ Jodi Picoult
Louie's final thought before he passed out was that this was indeed some crazy world, where the waiting period to get an abortion was longer than the waiting period to get a gun.
~ Jodi Picoult
Periods are ridiculous girls shouldnt be punished for not getting pregnant.
~ Unknown
I do not believe abortion should be legal.
~ Herman Cain
I am open and will continue to be open to ways to limit abortion. What I am not open to is to removing the right.
~ Rudy Giuliani
I would prefer to believe that a market in fetal organs would empower women to use their reproductive capabilities to their own economic advantage.
~ Jacob M. Appel
If they see a woman they suspect of being illegally pregnant, they pounce on her and drag her to a clinic for an abortion. They are paid fifty yuan for each woman they bring in.
~ Ma Jian
If you're unlucky enough to have been born with a cunt, you'll be monitored wherever you go. Men control our vaginas; the state controls our wombs. You can try to lock up your body, but the government still owns the key. That's just women's fate.
~ Ma Jian
Getting pregnant without authorization is against the law. Argue your case with the government, if you want. Go to America-- see what they say. China's population control policy has the full support of the United Nations.
~ Ma Jian