Sol Wachtler Quotes

No public official, no congressman, has the right to tell a woman what decision she must make and no congressman has the wisdom to dictate what is best for her.

I think people have the right to love whoever they want, and I think that women have the right to do whatever they wish to their bodies given the circumstances.

Nothing is more private than a woman's body; it is her physical, emotional, and moral citadel. She cannot be free at all if she is not free to decide for herself, in private, what to do with her body.

I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.

It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.

A woman owns her own body and nobody has the right to tell her what to do with it. Period.

I have the right to determine who shall be my mate without the permission of any man. I am not a slave.

Few decisions are more personal and intimate, more properly private, or more basic to individual dignity and autonomy than a woman's decision ... whether to end her pregnancy. A woman's right to make that choice freely is fundamental.

I think women have the right to consult their own wishes, needs, and capacities and produce only loved, wanted children they can care for - or even no children at all. I think we would all be better off as a society if we respected women's ability to make these decisions for themselves and concentrated on caring well for the born.

In the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights. To force women to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will is to deprive them of the right to make basic decisions about their lives and well-being, and to give that power to the state.

It's 2014, and the fact that anybody has to fight for the right to do what they want to do with their body in a safe and responsible way is infuriating.

We need to respect choices that women make.

The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps.

The idea of not being able to control my own fertility genuinely terrifies me. That one mistake might change your life. That everything I am, and do, could be ended by the repeal of laws our mothers fought so hard for, that women had waited for the entire span of humanity to come about.

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.

Women should have the right to choose or not to choose abortion.

Voting means very little…if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right. Not one wife in a thousand can do that now, & so long as she suffers this bondage, all other rights will not help her to her true position.

Abortion – Yes! But that is just the beginning…. My uterus is mine and it is up to me to look after it.

… the right to an abortion is society’s down payment on all the rights we [women] are yet due.

I come from a family of five women. I would never pretend to tell one of my sisters what to do with her body, and don’t want the Federal Government doing that, either.

I will preserve and protect a woman's right to choose, and am devoted and dedicated to honoring my word in that regard.

I think women have to be able to choose... sort of, the right of choice. They are the ones that have to make the decision because they're the ones that are going to decide to bring up that child or not.

Every Democrat, like every American, should support a woman's right to make her own choices about her body and her health. That is not negotiable.

Any discussion involving the ownership of women's bodies is one to be had! We must manifest the right!

Women are smart enough and strong enough to make their own health care decisions and should be able to make these decisions in private, consulting with their doctors and families as they choose.