Madeleine M. Kunin Quotes

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.

Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision makers.

If you want to control human reproduction you have to control women’s bodies.

Woman must have her freedom; the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she shall be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers; and before it can be his, it is hers alone.

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

Margaret Sanger didn't just introduce the idea of birth control into our culture at large, she freed women from indenture to their bodies.

We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent unintended pregnancy. We believe that a woman considering an abortion should not be forced to have an ultrasound against her will.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

It is essential that the women's preventive coverage benefit, including contraception, be available to all women, regardless of what health plan they have or where they work - as Congress intended. Providing access to birth control just makes good sense.

The public likes to think that women only care about contraception.

In order to stabilize human population growth, we must prioritize the education of girls, the empowerment of women, the provision of ubiquitous access to the knowledge and techniques of fertility management, and the continued raising of child survival rates.

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

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.

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.

Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she must take to be man’s equal. It is the first step they must both take toward human emancipation.

I think women have to be able to choose... sort of, the right of choice. They are the ones that have to make the decision because they're the ones that are going to decide to bring up that child or not.

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

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

Denial of contraception to women without the financial means to afford it could cause substantial economic burdens, and even greater burdens if the lack of contraception results in an unintended pregnancy.

Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.

Placing Margaret Sanger on the $20 bill will remind us of what she has done for women and our reproductive health and how the fight for reproductive freedom is an ongoing one.

I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.

Empowering women by allowing them to choose when and how many children to have is not only the right thing to do, it is the smart thing to do.

For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.