Erica Jong Quotes

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

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

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

I'm impacted by my women's reproductive rights.

Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.

I'll protect and expand access to no-copay birth control and safe, legal abortion.

There is nothing new about these Republican attacks on our family planning decisions. In fact, from the moment they came into power, Republicans in the House of Representatives have been waging a war on women's health.

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

This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life.

On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.

So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? It's like we woke up in a bad episode of 'Mad Men.'

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

If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.

In 2012, the Liberal Party affirmed overwhelmingly at the policy convention that we are a pro-choice party. It means that we are a party that defends women's rights, and therefore, it would be inconsistent for any Liberal MP to be able to vote to take away women's rights.

Equal rights under the law and reproductive freedom are synonymous.

Keep a woman's right to choose unless George W. Bush is free to baby-sit.

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.

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.

… the right to an abortion is society’s down payment on all the rights we [women] are yet due.

One can only presume, despite unequivocal polling to the contrary, that Republicans believe relentlessly attacking womens' abilities to make their own health care decisions is popular and will help them win elections. I believe it is at their peril that they pursue this anti-women agenda.

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

I believe that reproductive rights are human rights, and they are nonnegotiable.

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.

Here's what I see: a complacency among the generation of young women whose entire lives have been lived after Roe v. Wade was decided.