Tom Perez Quotes

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.

Every Democrat, like every American, should support a woman's right to make her own choices about her body and her health. That is not negotiable and should not change city by city or state by state.

I will preserve and protect a woman's right to choose, and am devoted and dedicated to honoring my word in that regard.

We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision, and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, and, moreover, it's good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary.

I wouldn't be able to date someone who had conflicting ideas on abortion, no. Because it's every woman's right to do whatever they do.

Listen to the pregnant woman. Value her. She values the life growing inside her. Listen to the pregnant woman, and you cannot help but defend her right to abortion.

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

It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.

No public official, no congressman, has the right to tell a woman what decision she must make and no congressman has the wisdom to dictate what is best for her.

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

Abortion needs to be claimed as a positive, social good. It is an essential option for women—not just ones in dramatic, terrible, body-and-soul-destroying situations, but all women—and thus benefits society as a whole.

I think women have the right to consult their own wishes, needs, and capacities and produce only loved, wanted children they can care for - or even no children at all. I think we would all be better off as a society if we respected women's ability to make these decisions for themselves and concentrated on caring well for the born.

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

Women in America must be trusted to make their own medical decisions and have access to the full range of reproductive health care, including abortion.

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

I support Donald Trump, but I also support abortion and a women's right to choice, what to do with their body.

I have been fighting to protect women's healthcare and reproductive rights for decades.

We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country.

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.

I believe in a woman's right to choose, because, well, no one ever seems to tell guys what to do with their bodies.

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

I can't sit here and be a hypocrite and say I'm for limited government, but I think the government should decide what women do with their bodies.

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.

A woman has the right to choose her reproductive health care.