Cherie Blair Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision makers.

With the development of the [birth control] pill, “womanhood” would no longer mean the same thing as “motherhood”.

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

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

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.

World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not be if their mothers had access to cheap, reliable family planning, had enough personal empowerment to stand up to their husbands and relatives, and could choose their own family size.

In order to stabilize human population growth, we must prioritize the education of girls, the empowerment of women, the provision of ubiquitous access to the knowledge and techniques of fertility management, and the continued raising of child survival rates.

The U. S. Agency for International Development has found that in every nation where information about contraception and access to methods of birth control are available, abortion rates decline

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.

We’ve come a long way from more than a century ago when contraception was illegal, to today when—for the first time—all women may have access to free Birth Control…. It’s a personal choice, whether or not to use methods like “the pill.” But it’s to society’s great benefit to make sure every woman has this option.

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

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.

Has knowledge of birth control, so carefully guarded and so secretly practiced by the women of the wealthy class – and so tenaciously withheld from the working women – brought them misery? Rather, has it not promoted greater happiness, greater freedom, greater prosperity and more harmony among them? The women who have this knowledge are the women who have been free to develop, free to enjoy in its best sense, and free to advance the interests of the community.

To me, the biggest revolution of the 20th century was the pill.

Being able to control your reproduction is essential to women's ability to flourish in the United States.

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.

The greatest issue is to raise the question of birth control out of the gutter of obscenity ... into the light of intelligence and human understanding.

I resolved that women should have knowledge of contraception. They have every right to know about their own bodies. I would strikeout--I would scream from the housetops. I would tell the world what was going on in the lives of these poor women. I would be heard. No matter what it should cost. I would be heard.

Without the means to prevent, and to control the timing of, conception, economic and political rights have limited meaning for women. If women cannot plan their pregnancies, they can plan little else in their lives.