Lewis B. Smedes Quotes

A woman owns her own body and nobody has the right to tell her what to do with it. Period.

The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps.

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

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.

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

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

My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves.

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

I come from a family of five women. I would never pretend to tell one of my sisters what to do with her body, and don’t want the Federal Government doing that, either.

Any discussion involving the ownership of women's bodies is one to be had! We must manifest the right!

Women deserve better. They deserve the freedom to make their own health care choices.

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

I don't want people instructing me what to do with my body; I don't want the government to tell me what I can do in my bedroom, with my body, or with whoever I choose to love.

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

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.

The pill was the liberation of the spirit of women.

Women are smart enough and strong enough to make their own health care decisions and should be able to make these decisions in private, consulting with their doctors and families as they choose.

I hate the idea of telling a woman what to do with her body.

Women who don't control their own reproductive rights are not free.

We should let women make their own decisions.

No woman should be told she can't make her own decisions about her body. If women's reproductive rights come under attack, I will be standing up for women.

I have a brain, I have a uterus, and they both work.

I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield, not your uranium mine, not your calf for fattening, not your cow for milking. You may not use me as your factory. Priests and legislators do not hold shares in my womb or my mind. If I give it to you, I want it back. My life is a non-negotiable demand.

Young women need to know that abortion rights and abortion access are not presents bestowed or retracted by powerful men (or women) - Presidents, Supreme Court justices, legislators, lobbyists - but freedoms won, as freedom always is, by people struggling on their own behalf.