Jan Schakowsky Quotes

I joined Planned Parenthood because I wanted to help poor women with real health care needs.

Planned Parenthood doesn't care about women's health care needs; it cares about abortion.

Planned Parenthood claims to offer a wide variety of services, but they actually fall short in many areas.

Planned Parenthood is a very important part of my professional life.

I believe that my work extending health care to women through Planned Parenthood is something that most people will respect and do respect.

Restricting access to such a basic health care service, which 99% of sexually experienced American women have used and 62% of American women are using right now, is out of touch with public sentiment.

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

I've never personally had to use a Planned Parenthood. But I have many friends who have and do and did, and I think it's important that that access be there for everyone.

Consider this for a moment: House Republicans would rather cut off a woman's access to birth control, cancer screenings, and other preventative care from Planned Parenthood than continue to fund and operate the federal government.

The women who walk into Planned Parenthood clinics come from every background, every political persuasion.

I worked at Planned Parenthood for eight years, rising through the ranks from volunteer escort to clinic counselor to clinic director.

I still support Planned Parenthood personally because they do a good job providing health care for women, have for generations in my congressional district.

In my twenties, I relied on Planned Parenthood as my health care provider - and throughout my time in the State House, I have fought for Mainers' reproductive rights.

I've been supporting Planned Parenthood all my life. I've even used it myself, back when I had no money. It's where I got my birth control. During college, every one of us got support from them.

After working in a prominent position at a Planned Parenthood facility in Central Texas for over eight years, I can say that women deserve better than Planned Parenthood and that their funding should be reallocated to Federally Qualified Health Centers.

Planned Parenthood's mission, on paper, is to give women quality and affordable health care and to protect women's rights. In reality, their mission is to increase their abortion numbers and, in turn, increase their revenue.

Most of Planned Parenthood's work focuses on health care for low-income women: things like screenings for breast cancer and diabetes, and family planning.

Unlike Mitt Romney, President Obama is standing up for Planned Parenthood.

I did work at Planned Parenthood between college and grad school. For me, anywhere that I worked or anywhere that I've come to know intimately is a great place to set a story because it's a place where you know all the details already, and you don't have to make them up; you can just borrow them.

Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning services. Planned parenthood has a right to perform abortions.

I have always stood up to protect women's access to safe and legal abortion, birth control and health care at Planned Parenthood.

I did not believe and I do not believe that Planned Parenthood should be defunded.

I have many memories of my time with Planned Parenthood. I spent eight years of my life there. Some memories are good, some are not. But they are contained in my mind. It's easy to forget them.

Planned Parenthood is an organization that does not provide quality health care.