Jennifer Granholm Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Decades ago, women suffered through horrifying back-alley abortions. Or, they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse. So when the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women's health, pushing bills to limit access to vital services, we had to ask: Why is the GOP trying to send women back... to the back alley?

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

These same people who accuse Planned Parenthood of 'targeting' African-American children, they care about you only while you're in the womb. The minute you crown, you're on your own.

Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.

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

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.

Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups.

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.

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.

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.

In America, access to birth control is controlled by those who never use it.

The Republican Party is not doing themselves a service by being so vehemently anti-choice

If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be inexpensive, too.

The Republicans have decided that the single most important issue facing our Nation is to change the law so employees can deny women access to birth control coverage.

There is no way to treat fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses as separate constitutional persons [separate from the mother] without subtracting pregnant women from the community of constitutional persons.

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.

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

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.