Michael Baumgartner Quotes

The Health and Human Services preventive services mandate forces businesses to provide the morning-after and the week-after pills in our health insurance plans.

There is something mindboggling about telling a girl that she’s old enough to be pregnant but not old enough to use birth control.

It is essential that the women's preventive coverage benefit, including contraception, be available to all women, regardless of what health plan they have or where they work - as Congress intended. Providing access to birth control just makes good sense.

My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.

My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young.

Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

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.

I would put myself towards left of center.

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good.

It is a very sad day for America when political ideology overrules good science and public health practices. The Food and Drug Administration has denied allowing the emergency contraception drug Plan B to be sold over-the-counter—ignoring its own panel of expert physicians, scientists and public health professionals who had voted overwhelmingly in favor of making the drug available over-the-counter … This pandering to right wing radicals will lead to more unwanted pregnancy, more abortions, and another step backwards for the women of our country.

Liberals amuse me. I am a socialist.

The Right, much more than the Left, believes in the notion of live and let live, and that is the true definition of tolerance.

I'm like most people in America. I'm conservative on some things, and I'm liberal on other things.

These efforts to defund Planned Parenthood fail because one out of five American women have used Planned Parenthood at one time or another in their life. It's just a bad idea.

I'm liberal about everything that is issue-based as far as ideology, but I'm also of the opinion of a very small government.

We must stand firm against the Left's nationalisation obsession.

The arrogance of the Left always fascinates me.

I've been supporting Planned Parenthood all my life. I've even used it myself, back when I had no money. It's where I got my birth control. During college, every one of us got support from them.

I don't know what Russell Moore's politics really are. I don't know if he is a closet liberal or if he is a conservative.

Our laws are very clear on a woman's reproductive health care. I will not only enforce those laws as attorney general, I will take the appropriate action against anyone who tries to interfere with a woman's right to choose her reproductive health care.

The belief that government must be the ultimate nanny to our children is one of the fundamental philosophical disagreements between the Right and Left.

We are pro-West, and we are not anti-liberal.

No matter what the issue is, conservative principles are always better for people than big-government, liberal principles.

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

Conservatism solves problems. Libralism blows 'em up.