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Quotes About Reproductive health

Nothing in our society-with the exception of violence and fear-has been more effective in keeping women in their place than the degradation of the menstrual cycle.
~ Christiane Northrup
I have personally been affected by women's reproductive health issues, and I will continue to support that cause and spread awareness about it.
~ Bethany Cosentino
I believe abortion should be safe, legal, and rare. I do think women should have a choice but also that women should be making responsible decisions.
~ Hillary Clinton
My curriculum would be the whole year. It would be really slow and it would be about human anatomy. I would teach people about women's bodies so they understand what Planned Parenthood is for.
~ Jen Kirkman
I am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all.
~ Kathleen Turner
Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
~ Melinda Gates
I would like to make it possible for many women and men in Latin America to win the lottery and receive the type of reproductive health services they so urgently need.
~ Ruth Simmons
Since 'Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights' came out, I've done a fair amount of public speaking, and the two statistics that always make the audience sit up are that nearly one in three women will have had at least one abortion by menopause and 61 percent of women who have abortions are already mothers.
~ Katha Pollitt
Stats are stats but if you want to be sure you're going to have, say, three children with no problems, you should start at around 23.
~ Mary Nightingale
If you are a man who is opposed to abortion, you should get a vasectomy.
~ Rachel Maddow
For most of recorded history, the treatment of women's sexual and reproductive health was the almost exclusive bailiwick of women, including the "juries of matrons" who performed the genital examinations required in the evaluation of rape and annulment cases and who were among the rare women considered qualified to give testimony in medieval courts of law.
~ Hanne Blank
There are things running around out there with uteruses,son. You're going to need this.
~ Laurie Notaro
I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
~ Jackie Speier
I advocate family planning, but I have never stood for forcible sterilisation.
~ Sanjay Gandhi
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~ Dan Brown
Three out of ten women in the United States have an abortion by the time they are forty-five years old. And women who need abortions get abortions, whether or not the procedure is legal or safe, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Blaming women who need abortions through slut-shaming is not only morally reprehensible, it also is medically irresponsible.
~ Leora Tanenbaum
Iran's experience shows that when religious scholars and UNFPA work together to solve reproductive health issues, there can be excellent results.
~ Unknown
The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.
~ Toni Morrison
You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.
~ Hillary Clinton
Uncle Pete made it clear: to have a girl baby, a couple should "have sexual congress twenty-four hours prior to ovulation." That way, the swift male sperm would rush in and die off. The female sperm, sluggish but more reliable, would arrive just as the egg dropped.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
No woman wants an abortion. Either she wants a child or she wishes to avoid pregnancy.
~ Unknown
When you say 'the menopause', people understand; when you say 'periods' to someone, even if they don't understand the mechanisms of it, they will understand. But if you say to someone 'I have endometriosis,' they haven't got a clue what it is. There is such a lack of tying it together with what is normal versus what is not normal with a period.
~ Emma Hayes
Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for abortion.
~ Louise Slaughter
The gag rule is, is that if any program receiving United States funding for Family Planning cannot mention, cannot speak the word "abortion" in the Third World.
~ Eleanor Smeal