Quotes About Reproductive rights

No one should be forced to delay health care because politicians have the audacity to presume to know what is best for a woman and her family.

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.

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

No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers — and before it can be his, it is hers alone. She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members. [Explaining rationale for using prominent black leaders to advocate birth control and abortion]

The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." Margaret Sanger

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

At that time, a pregnant woman could not get an abortion in Massachusetts -- but a cat could.

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

I have made it clear that future candidates need to be completely understanding that they will be expected to vote pro-choice on any bills.

Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.

Everybody know that condom and birth control was white man scheme to kill off black people, but he don't care.

la guerra era una forma derrochadora y brutal de combatir la presión demográfica. Pero a falta de anticonceptivos eficaces o de posibilidades de abortar bajo control médico, la alternativa era también derrochadora y brutal: subalimentación, hambre, enfermedades y una vida breve, pobre y mezquina para todo el mundo.

La homosexualidad, ejemplo flagrante de sexo no reproductor, se convirtió, junto a la masturbación, las relaciones premaritales, las prácticas anticonceptivas y el aborto, en blanco principal de las fuerzas pronatalistas.

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

After my sister Sandra was born the doctors there per formed a hysterectomy on my mother, in fact sterilizing her without her permission, which was common at the time, and up to just a few years ago, so that it is hardly worth mentioning. In the opinion of some people, the fewer Indians there are, the better. As Colonel Chivington said to his soldiers: "Kill 'em all, big and small, nits make lice!

pro-choice or pro-abortion.

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.

It's a strange conception of liberty when we argue over the right to kill our babies.

Approximately ten thousand of these women succeed in having their abortions performed legally in a hospital;7 the rest go to illegal practitioners in the United States or leave the country to seek abortion where it is more readily available.

Antiabortion activists, like eugenicists, think that the state has the right to intervene in the breeding habits of poor single women.

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