Cecile Richards Quotes

Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.

What's happened with the over-the-counter birth control issue is that the Democrats didn't see it coming. They think that they've got a monopoly on talking to women from the waist down. Anything that has to do with reproduction and birth control and abortion - they call it women's health, then they call it women's issues.

The GOP wants to cut funding for birth control, place undue burdens on clinics that serve low income women and families, and defund Planned Parenthood.

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.

I have said that I am in favor of personhood as a concept. I am not taking a position on any of the state amendments, and I have said over and over again - and it has been reported over and over again - that I am not in favor of banning any common forms of birth control in Colorado or in the United States.

If they [Indian women] tire of their men, they give themselves abortions with herbs that force stillbirths ...

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.

Planned Parenthood can't hide their sickening abortion business behind a 'safe, legal and rare' slogan.

There are fewer unwanted pregnancies and fewer occasions where a woman is confronted with that decision if she has access to family planning and birth control. That's why I support Planned Parenthood; that's why I support Title X.

For women, access to reproductive health care isn't a political issue.

The women who walk into Planned Parenthood clinics come from every background, every political persuasion.

I don't think most conservatives are against access to birth control, but they are wary of funding things like Planned Parenthood.

Let me be clear: since I am pro-life, I do not support the mission of Planned Parenthood.

I will continue to be at the forefront, participating in rallies, marches, letter-writing campaigns, and fighting for federal funding for Planned Parenthood. And, I will always oppose the nomination of any anti-choice U.S. Supreme Court Justice.

Planned Parenthood doesn't care about women's health care needs; it cares about abortion.

Liberals have been overselling the threat to reproductive rights for decades.

No one has ever said to me 'go home and make a baby.' I have been told several times to go to Planned Parenthood and make the baby go away. Happy Hannukah.

By the time I was in high school, Roe v. Wade had passed, so that was also happening; girls were getting pregnant and getting abortions - and that happened in my school too.

Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.

Placing Margaret Sanger on the $20 bill will remind us of what she has done for women and our reproductive health and how the fight for reproductive freedom is an ongoing one.

I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.

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.

No woman has an abortion for fun.

Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups.

The public likes to think that women only care about contraception.