Tim Kaine Quotes

Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves.

The Constitution protects individual decisions in matters of childbearing from unjustified intrusion by the state ….The right to privacy in connection with decisions affecting procreation extends to minors as well as adults.

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

There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children.

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.

We acknowledge the freedom of each individual to advocate for a public policy on abortion that reflects his or her beliefs.

Birth control...is demeaning to women, degrading of human sexuality, and averse to human health and happiness.

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

No government should dictate whether or when we should have children….Reproductive freedom is a basic human right.

People come up to me... concerned... that I'll reproduce.

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

In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights.

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

Placing Margaret Sanger on the $20 bill will remind us of what she has done for women and our reproductive health and how the fight for reproductive freedom is an ongoing one.

I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.

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

That said, I can't emphasise enough - and I hope you print this - that I absolutely don't judge anybody at all who has an abortion, nor do I think they are murderers, nor do I think they are baby killers.

Abortion's a private decision. But I just think it shouldn't be federalized.

I'm convinced my mother only had sex eight times.

I don't mean to be trite about abortion, but I do feel it's a woman's body, and I don't think anyone should take away her choice of having or not having a child.

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.

Money is a tremendous advantage in just about everything, but in terms of reproduction, if you're a poor woman and you are infertile, it's like too bad, so sad. And if you are a wealthy woman, you can kind of buy whatever you want.

I've always been interested in the economics of reproduction, who gets what they want when it comes to childbearing and how these days, money is a tremendous advantage.

The entire matter of abortion is private and personal.

America has never before had reproductive police.