Rebecca Traister Quotes

It is not because woman is lacking in responsibility, but because she has too much of the latter that she demands to know how to prevent conception.

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.

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.

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.

Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she must take to be man’s equal. It is the first step they must both take toward human emancipation.

If you want to control human reproduction you have to control women’s bodies.

Woman must have her freedom; the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she shall be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers; and before it can be his, it is hers alone.

The U.S. Constitution guarantees women across this country, including my daughters, the right to choose for themselves when and how to start their families. Yet, more than forty years after Roe v. Wade, women's reproductive rights remain in jeopardy.

If you want to truly stand up for women's reproductive rights, then stand against birth control. Because nothing says anti-woman more than birth control.

We must... guarantee women control over their own reproductive decisions.

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

Margaret Sanger didn't just introduce the idea of birth control into our culture at large, she freed women from indenture to their bodies.

In my opinion, the battles over birth control and Planned Parenthood are primarily neither political nor religious. This is an issue of equality for women. This is an issue of women's rights: Planned Parenthood is the most important private provider of reproductive health care for women in the United States.

If the Democrats want to insult women by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it.

Choice is a uniquely female issue. We don't share the same reproductive systems.

Reproductive choice is a fundamental human right and we can never take it for granted. On this issue, you're either with us or against us.

…American women… have learned it should be for them to decide when and how often they shall take upon themselves the sacred duties of motherhood, but as law and custom give to the husband absolute control of the wife’s person, she is forced to not only violate physical law, but to outrage the holiest instincts of her being to maintain even a semblance of that freedom which by nature belongs to every human soul.

In America, access to birth control is controlled by those who never use it.

With the development of the [birth control] pill, “womanhood” would no longer mean the same thing as “motherhood”.

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.

Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.

When I say, 'I want women to have control over their bodies,' I mean that I want women to know and embrace their fertility.

Women, justifiably, feel vulnerable at a time so many years after their journey for reproductive freedom started.

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

Helping reproductive services doesn't just help women in isolation. It helps men just as much.