Dianne Feinstein Quotes

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

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

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.

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”.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

We know that the way to decrease unplanned pregnancies and abortions is to make birth control and family planning services accessible and affordable, not micromanage the type of medical information and reproductive health counseling that women around the world receive.

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.

I do not support legislation that would ban birth control.

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

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.

I'm impacted by my women's reproductive rights.

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

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

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.

I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.

On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.