Barbara Seaman Quotes

Abortion is part of being a mother and of caring for children, because part of caring for children is knowing when it is not a good idea to bring them into the world.

I want guys out there to think when they are in the magic moment of lovemaking that if this woman gets pregnant, I'm going to be on a financial hook for the rest of my life.

I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.

China's one-child policy punishes families for having 'out-of-plan' children, resulting in sex-selective abortion and tens of millions of 'missing girls' as well as forced abortion and sterilization campaigns.

It is the patriotic duty of women to bear four children.

Reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right. We therefore oppose government interference in the reproductive decisions of Americans.

Usually this desire for family size limitation has been laid to economic pressure... It has asserted itself among the rich and among the poor, among the intelligent and the unintelligent. It has been manifested in such horrors as infanticide, child abandonment and abortion

We never use the phrase population control. It has an implication of coercion.

Reproductive choice is a fundamental human right and we can never take it for granted. On this issue, you're either with us or against us.

No government should dictate whether or when we should have children….Reproductive freedom is a basic human right.

I think women have to be able to choose... sort of, the right of choice. They are the ones that have to make the decision because they're the ones that are going to decide to bring up that child or not.

Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.

If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support... autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.

Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.

Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.

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.

We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.

Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child.

The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.

One of the conveniences in life is to have less children.

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.

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

It is not because woman is lacking in responsibility, but because she has too much of the latter that she demands to know how to prevent conception.