Wendy Davis Quotes

85 percent of our counties do not offer abortions.

35 percent of U. S. births in the last 5 years were the result of unintended pregnancies …. That’s no surprise given recent efforts to reduce access to birth control, sex education, and abortion in this country.

While Texas women have the right to safe, legal abortion, in reality there are already very few facilities in Texas to provide this essential care. In 2008, 92 percent of Texas counties had no abortion provider.

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.

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.

The only reason we have late abortions is because we make early abortion difficult.

On Capitol Hill and in state houses across the country, anti-women's health politicians continue to make it clear that they will stop at nothing to end access to a safe, legal abortion.

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.

The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother's convenience.

Too many women believe that abortion is a safety net; abortion is a safety hazard.

Western women are terminating their pregnancies at a rate that represents autogenocide for peoples of European ancestry.

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

A no-win situation .... No one wants anyone they know to have an abortion, or to have an unwanted pregnancy. What we had to find was the least bad solution for the most women.

We condemn violence and harassment directed against abortion clinics, their staff and clients, as well as sanctions and discrimination against medical professionals whose consciences prevent them from being involved in abortions.

… nearly one in three [American] women will have had at least one abortion by the age of 45.

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

African Americans are concerned about the scourge of abortion in their community, and respond to related facts and figures. Large majorities agree that every life should have a chance, regardless of race, socioeconomic status or circumstance.

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.

Bottom line: Contraception does not reduce abortion.

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

The GOP wants to cut funding for birth control, place undue burdens on clinics that serve low income women and families, and defund Planned Parenthood.

As a person who worked in the abortion industry for eight years, I can say unequivocally that the most manipulation I have ever witnessed was inside the walls of the abortion clinic.

Liberals have been overselling the threat to reproductive rights for decades.

'And Then There Were None' is a network of former abortion clinic workers who are stepping forward to tell our stories about what really happens behind the closed doors of Planned Parenthood and abortion facilities across America. We are stepping forward because our voices deserve to be heard, and America deserves to know the truth.

In the State House, we fought to protect reproductive freedom for all Mainers - I'll continue to fight for patients and providers in the Senate.