Jen Kirkman Quotes

If you want an abortion you go to Planned Parenthood and that’s well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.

Abortion has an important and positive public health effect.

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

If we want to help pregnant women, let's make sure that each pregnancy is a wanted pregnancy.

Give special attention to the mothers' health, to see that women who are suffering from tuberculosis, heart or kidney disease, toxic goitre, gonorrhea, or any disease where the condition of pregnancy disturbs their health are placed under public health nurses to instruct them in practical, scientific methods of contraception in order to safeguard their lives---thus reducing maternal mortality

I still support Planned Parenthood personally because they do a good job providing health care for women, have for generations in my congressional district.

certainly the women's health part is something that I've become very interested in. It's not something I thought about when George [Bush] was elected...what I'd always been interested in was education.

There are wonderful things having to do with women's health. But not when it comes to abortion.

I'll protect and expand access to no-copay birth control and safe, legal abortion.

A woman’s ability to decide whether and when to have a child is not a social issue—it is a human right. It is the biggest indicator of whether she is educated or not, can work outside the home or not, is healthy or not, and how long she lives.

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

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.

I do believe that Planned Parenthood provides vital services to those in need and disagree with its funding cuts contained in the H.R. 1 package.

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.

Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.

Every year, Planned Parenthood serves three million Americans - men and women - and one in five women will receive care at a Planned Parenthood clinic in her lifetime.

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.

We know that the way to decrease unplanned pregnancies and abortions is to make birth control and family planning services accessible and affordable, not micromanage the type of medical information and reproductive health counseling that women around the world receive.

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

We have all these politicians that claim they're pro-life and that say women should not be able to get abortions and all this other stuff... there's nothing more pro-life than helping a woman who wants to have a child have a child. Then I realized that health insurance doesn't cover IVF.

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

But certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade, which would then force X number of women in America to [undergo] illegal and dangerous operations.

The point is that what we want, Democrats, and what we've always wanted, is to make abortion safe, legal, and rare.