Katha Pollitt Quotes

Few decisions are more personal and intimate, more properly private, or more basic to individual dignity and autonomy than a woman's decision ... whether to end her pregnancy. A woman's right to make that choice freely is fundamental.

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

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

Abortion – Yes! But that is just the beginning…. My uterus is mine and it is up to me to look after it.

The issue is not abortion. The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do.

A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.

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.

I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.

It's your body and your life and you have an absolute right to do with it as you choose.

It so happens that I'm pro choice.

Nothing is more personal, more individual, more important to women than the plank on abortion.

If a woman has a right to an abortion and to control her body, then she has the right to exploit her body and make money from it.

It's 2014, and the fact that anybody has to fight for the right to do what they want to do with their body in a safe and responsible way is infuriating.

I believe in a woman's right to choose, because, well, no one ever seems to tell guys what to do with their bodies.

I think people have the right to love whoever they want, and I think that women have the right to do whatever they wish to their bodies given the circumstances.

I believe that women have the right to wear any attire that suits their comfort. And above all, every individual has the right to wear an attire of their choice, and no one can deny that.

I wouldn't be able to date someone who had conflicting ideas on abortion, no. Because it's every woman's right to do whatever they do.

I would say I'm pro-choice only because I don't feel that it's right that anybody in this world puts restrictions on anyone.

You know how they say a man's house is his castle? I think for a woman, it's her body. I feel so strongly about a woman's right to choose. This is my Zionism. It's not a "right" any more than it's a right to breathe, to take in oxygen.

We need to respect choices that women make.

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.

I leave abortion to the woman. I just fundamentally end there. I absolutely support a woman's right to choose.

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.

The Liberal Party will not vote - no Liberal member of Parliament will vote - to take away a woman's right to choose.

I don't like telling people where I stand on this, although I'm surprised anybody wonders. I suppose if I say I'm pro-choice, if I make that clear, it let's the audience off the hook, then they can sort of relax. Okay, it's alright he's pro-choice then I can enjoy this.