Reproductive Rights Quotes

• The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Women, Abortion, Privacy

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• We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Unwanted

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.81, Penguin

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

  Margaret Sanger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Women who don't control their own reproductive rights are not free.

  Ani DiFranco

  Rights

  Source: www.elle.com

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• As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive rights for all women are a crucial part of that. It is a moral necessity that we not be forced to bring children into the world for whom we cannot be responsible and adoring and present. We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

  Anne Lamott

  Christian, Children, Fighting

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.81, Penguin

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• When we talk about 'reproductive rights' this is what we mean. It's the difference between people as objects, and people as agents: between regarding people as pawns on the policy chessboard and recognizing them as the players, the decision-makers, the drivers of policy; autonomous individuals intimately concerned with the direction of their own lives. Under these conditions women, especially, enjoy better health and live fuller lives.

  Nafis Sadik

  Mean, Player, Rights

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• It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.

  Martha Plimpton

  Children, Availability, Long

  "Martha Plimpton: Stop Undermining Women's Health With Personhood Amendments and Ultrasound Laws" by Martha Plimpton, www.slate.com. February 24, 2012.

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• If women took up arms to defend their reproductive rights, the GOP would ban assault rifles yesterday.

  Steve Marmel

  Gun, Yesterday, Rights

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  You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

  Hillary Clinton

  Safety, Abortion, Planning

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• Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant, but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision-makers. When women have the power to make choices about their families, they tend to decide precisely what demographers, economists, and development experts recommend. They invest in the long-term human capital of their families.

  Melinda Gates

  Powerful, Long, Choices

  "Why Birth Control Is Still a Big Idea". foreignpolicy.com. November 26, 2012.

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• We also need to make sure women can be in charge of their reproductive health. We can't defund places like Planned Parenthood, where women can go for all kinds of healthcare services. While reproductive rights span much further than the pro-life/pro-choice debate, Donald Trump has actually said he wants to "punish" women for having abortions. And Mike Pence is quite possibly the most anti-choice vice presidential candidate in history.

  Chrissy Teigen

  Rights, Choices, Pro Life

  "Chrissy Teigen Thinks Ivanka Trump 'Should Probably Run for Office One Day'". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. September 8, 2016.

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• Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing that. That, plus helping women gain political and economic power and safeguarding their reproductive rights.

  Al Gore

  Girl, Rights, Point Break

  "Al Gore, ‘Inconvenient Truth’ Author And Global-Warming Expert, Talks About Change". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2013.

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• From the woman who musters the courage to ask her husband to wear a condom, counter to cultural pressures, to the woman in Parliament who demands access to affordable reproductive health services for women who need them most, daring knows no scale or status.

  Purnima Mane

  Husband, Needs, Demand

  "Women Are Daring, Will You Join Them?" by Purnima Mane, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2013.

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• We respect women and don't insult them by saying all they care about is reproductive rights. All issues are women's issues.

  Carly Fiorina

  Rights, Issues, Care

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• I just want to remind people that the task of those who support reproductive rights and reproductive justice didn't change based on who is in the White House. We have leadership that is not supportive of what we're trying to do, but the demand for justice shouldn't be modulated.

  Willie Parker

  White, Rights, People

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• It is only when a woman is economically empowered that she can negotiate at household level with her husband about the number of children that body of hers can have.

  Joyce Banda

  Children, Husband, Numbers

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• Would give any woman who believes in reproductive rights and freedom any comfort.

  Nan Aron

  Believe, Rights, Giving

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• We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus theres a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And thats totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out.

  Bart Stupak

  Believe, Rights, Law

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• Marching with over a million women in support of our reproductive rights was one of the most empowering things I have done, both as a woman and as a Member of Congress.

  Sheila Jackson Lee

  Rights, Empowering, Support

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• I've always considered myself a feminist, I always considered myself somebody who is a reproductive rights activist, and I've spent the past 25 years of my life speaking truth to power. And using humor to do that.

  Lizz Winstead

  Past, Rights, Years

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• At the presidential level, everybody knows that Hillary Clinton is going to stand up for women's reproductive rights.

  Stephanie Schriock

  Rights, Presidential, Levels

  "President Of EMILY's List On The PAC's Priorities For Election Day". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. October 6, 2016.

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• Christian fundamentalists seek to roll back women's right to choose in the United States, and then also insist that money against Aids must not go to organisations that help people obtain their reproductive rights. These are extremely worrying trends.

  Mary Robinson

  Christian, Rights, Worry

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability, but also how this intersects with, for example, issues of gender - she's campaigned for reproductive rights in her native Indonesian, and is currently studying for a PhD in disability and visual cultures at Goldsmiths. She's written a feminist, environmentalist, anti-colonialist narrative poem, with tactile artwork and a Braille translation. How could I not publish that?

  Deborah Smith

  Strong, Artist, Rights

  Source: thequietus.com

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• In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights.

  Sandra Fluke

  Rights, Years, Two

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• My hope is that feminist, racial justice, reproductive rights and LGBT movements build a coalition that centers on the lives of women who lead intersectional lives and too often fall in between the cracks of these narrow mission statements.

  Janet Mock

  Fall, Rights, Justice

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