Italo Calvino Quotes

Abortion is part of being a mother and of caring for children, because part of caring for children is knowing when it is not a good idea to bring them into the world.

The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.

Every child a wanted child, every mother a willing mother.

Bottom line: Contraception does not reduce abortion.

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

Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.

I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no way that having an abortion, ever, is an easy decision, and it more often errs on the side of absolutely wrenching, not to mention physically debilitating.

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

To be a straight person and discover you're infertile is almost like discovering you're not a straight person.

We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don't think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.

The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.

Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning services. Planned parenthood has a right to perform abortions.

No one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child.

Reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right. We therefore oppose government interference in the reproductive decisions of Americans.

I would like to make every child born in America a planned, wanted child.

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

Many women have abortions out of love for their unborn fetus.

We recognized ‘the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child.’ That right necessarily includes the right of a woman to decide whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

If the vice president thinks it’s disgraceful for an unmarried woman to bear a child, and if he believes that a woman cannot adequately raise a child without a father, then he’d better make sure that abortion remains safe and legal.

We never use the phrase population control. It has an implication of coercion.

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.

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