Hillary Clinton Quotes

By the time I was in high school, Roe v. Wade had passed, so that was also happening; girls were getting pregnant and getting abortions - and that happened in my school too.

In addition, the bill passed by the House requires a person performing an abortion on a minor from a different state to notify one parent in the home state.

There is something mindboggling about telling a girl that she’s old enough to be pregnant but not old enough to use birth control.

Abortion is part of being a mother and of caring for children, because part of caring for children is knowing when it is not a good idea to bring them into the world.

A woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.

I'm the only pro-life woman in the Senate. I take this issue very seriously. I'm the mother of two children.

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

Parents do bear some of the responsibility if they don't talk to their kids, are never around, even deny their kids the love that young girls often crave when they decide to have a baby.

Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life.

This right to privacy ... doesn't exist in my opinion in the United States Constitution, this right that was created, it was created in Griswold–Griswold was the contraceptive case–and abortion. And now we're just extending it out. And the further you extend it out, the more ...this freedom actually intervenes and affects the family. You say, 'Well, it's my individual freedom.' Yes, but it destroys the basic unit of our society because it condones behavior that's antithetical to strong healthy families. Whether it's polygamy, whether it's adultery, where it's sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family.

Without going into a philosophical debate on the rights of the unborn, it is important to recognize the right of women to safe abortion. Even in the case of medically-indicated abortions, the pregnancy termination often results in maternal death, and may cause serious morbidity.

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

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.

Our vision should be of an America where abortion is safe and legal, but rare.

No one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child.

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

Abortion has an important and positive public health effect.

If we want to help pregnant women, let's make sure that each pregnancy is a wanted pregnancy.

We recognized ‘the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child.’ That right necessarily includes the right of a woman to decide whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

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

This right of privacy... is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy…

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.

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

Unless we work to strengthening the family, … all the rest : schools, and playgrounds, and public assistance, and private concern, will never be enough to cut completely the circle of despair and deprivation.

One out of three American women will need or chose an abortion at some time in their lives. We have to make sure these are safe.