Florynce Kennedy Quotes

I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies.

Seventy-seven percent of anti-abortion leaders are men. 100% of them will never be pregnant.

If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be inexpensive, too.

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

Listen to the pregnant woman. Value her. She values the life growing inside her. Listen to the pregnant woman, and you cannot help but defend her right to abortion.

Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn't get pregnant.

Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.

There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.

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

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.

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

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

A potential person is not a person, any more than an acorn is an oak tree. I don't think women should have to give birth just because a sperm met an egg.

Why is it controversial that I chose to talk about my abortion? And the fact that I got an abortion when I was in a marriage and could have financially supported a child, why did I feel so much shame for that?

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

I could never, ever have an abortion.

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.

Women who become pregnant through rape or incest should not qualify for government-funded abortions unless their pregnancy is life-threatening.

Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.

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.

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

Choice is a uniquely female issue. We don't share the same reproductive systems.

The emphasis must not be on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

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.

The issue [abortion] has come to symbolize what role women are going to play in American society. It's about power as much as anything else.