Karen Handel Quotes

We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country.

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

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

I believe that my work extending health care to women through Planned Parenthood is something that most people will respect and do respect.

I am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all. Please join me in supporting Planned Parenthood's vital work to protect access to reproductive health care and real sex education worldwide.

Unlike Mitt Romney, President Obama is standing up for Planned Parenthood.

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

Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.

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.

Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning services. Planned parenthood has a right to perform abortions.

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

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

I did not believe and I do not believe that Planned Parenthood should be defunded.

I remember hearing a radio segment, while working in the studio, that detailed how officials were trying to systematically - and quietly - eliminate individual Planned Parenthood centres throughout the country by tweaking state laws so that it'd be harder and harder and harder for them to operate - and it was working. I was incensed.

In my twenties, I relied on Planned Parenthood as my health care provider - and throughout my time in the State House, I have fought for Mainers' reproductive rights.

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.

In the more than four decades since Roe v. Wade, it has become clear that some will stop at nothing to obstruct women's reproductive rights.

I'm impacted by my women's reproductive rights.

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.

It's okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women's health in the field of reproductive freedom, and the next stage would be bringing menopause out of the closet.

On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.

I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.

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