Alveda King Quotes

If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be inexpensive, too.

'And Then There Were None' is a network of former abortion clinic workers who are stepping forward to tell our stories about what really happens behind the closed doors of Planned Parenthood and abortion facilities across America. We are stepping forward because our voices deserve to be heard, and America deserves to know the truth.

If you want an abortion you go to Planned Parenthood and that’s well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.

The abortion industry kills as many Black people every four days as the Klan killed in 150 years.

And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by policies of slavery

I'll protect and expand access to no-copay birth control and safe, legal abortion.

Everyone knows now how early a fetus becomes a baby. Women who have been pregnant have seen their babies on ultrasounds. They know that there is a terrible truth to those horrific pictures the anti-choice fanatics hold up in front of abortion clinics.

These same people who accuse Planned Parenthood of 'targeting' African-American children, they care about you only while you're in the womb. The minute you crown, you're on your own.

I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.

Restricting access to such a basic health care service, which 99% of sexually experienced American women have used and 62% of American women are using right now, is out of touch with public sentiment.

We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent unintended pregnancy. We believe that a woman considering an abortion should not be forced to have an ultrasound against her will.

Too many women believe that abortion is a safety net; abortion is a safety hazard.

The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief...So great is the misery of the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies.

Our vision should be of an America where abortion is safe and legal, but rare.

When the health of a woman is involved I think the government has to be respectful.

We support reproductive rights and will stand with women and men around the country to support keeping abortion and birth control safe, legal and accessible.

When contraceptive services are not available to women throughout the world, abortion rates increase.

Limiting access to abortion does not limit demand for abortion.

85 percent of our counties do not offer abortions.

One out of three American women will need or chose an abortion at some time in their lives. We have to make sure these are safe.

… nearly one in three [American] women will have had at least one abortion by the age of 45.

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.

I've never personally had to use a Planned Parenthood. But I have many friends who have and do and did, and I think it's important that that access be there for everyone.

We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country.

'Whole Women's Health' made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out.