Karen Handel Quotes

One of my top priorities will be to defund Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood can't hide their sickening abortion business behind a 'safe, legal and rare' slogan.

I am a big pro-choice guy.

I'm 100% pro-life.

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.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don't think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

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

The Constitution protects individual decisions in matters of childbearing from unjustified intrusion by the state ….The right to privacy in connection with decisions affecting procreation extends to minors as well as adults.

I've always had both sides mad at me on this issue [abortion].

We favor appropriate legislation and/or a constitutional amendment prohibiting abortion except to save the life of the mother

We acknowledge the freedom of each individual to advocate for a public policy on abortion that reflects his or her beliefs.

The Republican Party is not doing themselves a service by being so vehemently anti-choice

I am pro choice. You Mr. Romney are multiple choice

One out of three American women will need or chose an abortion at some time in their lives. We have to make sure these are safe.

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

There are fewer unwanted pregnancies and fewer occasions where a woman is confronted with that decision if she has access to family planning and birth control. That's why I support Planned Parenthood; that's why I support Title X.

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

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

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

What's happened with the over-the-counter birth control issue is that the Democrats didn't see it coming. They think that they've got a monopoly on talking to women from the waist down. Anything that has to do with reproduction and birth control and abortion - they call it women's health, then they call it women's issues.

As I say, I can't wait until Congress - half of Congress can get pregnant so we can quit fighting about birth control and Planned Parenthood.

I don't think most conservatives are against access to birth control, but they are wary of funding things like Planned Parenthood.

Donald Trump has not always been pro-life, and I hope that his conversion is complete.

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