Quotes About Reproductive health

Women in America must be trusted to make their own medical decisions and have access to the full range of reproductive health care, including abortion.

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

Soviet woman of child-bearing age had six to eight abortions. This translated into 10 million to 16 million abortions per year. (The comparable figures for the United States were 0.5 abortions per woman and roughly 1.5 million abortions per year.)

Helping women make informed decisions about the best contraceptive methods for their families would also help us ensure that more infants are celebrating their first birthdays.

The religious right is quick to extol the principle of free speech when it comes to, say, public school officials preaching to children in their care or shouting at women through bullhorns outside of reproductive health clinics. And yet they are eager to regulate and restrict the speech of medical professionals delivering reproductive health services.

Joanna's period was late but came, thank God and the Pill.

They're combining that new fertility drug with a birth control pill for people who don't want triplets.

A woman's preovulatory waking temps typically range from about 97.0 to 97.7 degrees Fahrenheit, with postovulatory temps rising to about 97.8 and higher. After ovulation, they will usually stay elevated until her next period, about 12 to 16 days later.

three primary fertility signs are cervical fluid, waking temperature, and cervical position (this last one being an additional sign that simply corroborates the first two).

And for government and a bunch of men in government, frankly, to get between a woman and her provider is downright dangerous, especially when most of them can't even spell endometriosis, much less tell you what it means.

Both childbirth and abortion are medical procedures but neither is an illness, and sometimes they're both treated as such.

Until that time, we have more than enough people to create healthy non-inbred children just by the usual process of fucking each other.

If anyone's interested in the alleviation of poverty... the only thing we know definitely works is giving women control over their own reproduction

believed that education was damaging—too much blood to a woman's brain would cause reproductive malfunction. To prove her

The widow's own grandmother had believed that education was damaging — too much blood to a woman's brain would cause reproductive malfunction.

I had been pregnant in the sixties, and at nineteen years old had had an illegal abortion that probably influenced the messy state of my reproductive organs. For the next nineteen years my priority was to finish my education and pursue my career. Now I couldn't take my fate: You'll never have a baby. That was the sentence handed to me. I began to beat my fists against a door that maybe I had locked on the other side.

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.

Reproductive health decisions should be made by a woman and her doctor. Any efforts to undermine women's reproductive rights must stop.

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'.

Why periods? Why can't Mother Nature just send a text message: "What'z up, Girl? You ain't pregnant. Have a great week! Talk next month."

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.

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

As the largest contributor to the United Nations and funder of international family planning, the U.S. is in a unique position to continue to lead the global agenda and place reproductive health at its core.

In my opinion, the battles over birth control and Planned Parenthood are primarily neither political nor religious. This is an issue of equality for women. This is an issue of women's rights: Planned Parenthood is the most important private provider of reproductive health care for women in the United States.