Rima Fakih Quotes

Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.

RU 486 is a human pesticide.

I do not support legislation that would ban birth control.

Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.

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

Personally, I'd be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their grandparents would find themselves on the same side.

The main reason Italian women resort to abortion is the Catholic insistence that no birth control information be distributed.

I grew up hearing stories about my grandmother - my mother's mother - who used to go to villages in India in her little VW bug. My grandmother would take a bullhorn and make sure women in these villages knew how to access birth control.

So we want to free the women of America? You know what would free the women of America? Make men accept responsibility for birth control.

It is clear that Americans have a right to birth control.

We should protect life but I'm not interested in anything that restricts birth control. And I'm not interested in anything that restricts in vitro fertilization because I think parents who are struggling to create life, to have a child, that is a wonderful thing.

The methods used to take human lives, such as abortion, the pill, the ring, etc., amounts to genocide. I believe that legal abortion is legal murder.

You make me wish that birth control was retroactive.

And people in America are very practical people across the political spectrum. Very conservative women want their kids, their daughters taking birth control.

Contraception really shouldn't be all that controversial because it's a tool a woman can use to delay her first birth until she's, say, 18 or 19 years old.

Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

Is it a recent occurrence that women have tried to control when and if they reproduced? Absolutely not. By 2000 B.C., there was worldwide use of herbal potions to prevent pregnancy. Condoms were made from animal bladders.

We're more effective than birth control pills.

For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.

We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I think that is the most ethical way to reduce our population.

Everybody goes to clinics, to hospitals, to doctors, and so on. Some people go to Planned Parenthood. But you don't have to go to Planned Parenthood to get your cholesterol or your blood pressure checked. If you want an abortion, you go to Planned Parenthood, and that's well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.

Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.

Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups.

I want every Filipino woman empowered with information regarding all options available to her regarding family planning.