Howard Dean Quotes

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

We can't afford to compromise on anything we have fought for - abortion is legal in our country, and I will do everything in my power to stand up for the rights of women and all people to choose when and how they build a family.

We need to respect choices that women make.

No public official, no congressman, has the right to tell a woman what decision she must make and no congressman has the wisdom to dictate what is best for her.

Abortion needs to be claimed as a positive, social good. It is an essential option for women—not just ones in dramatic, terrible, body-and-soul-destroying situations, but all women—and thus benefits society as a whole.

I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.

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

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

I will preserve and protect a woman's right to choose, and am devoted and dedicated to honoring my word in that regard.

In the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights. To force women to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will is to deprive them of the right to make basic decisions about their lives and well-being, and to give that power to the state.

I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

I believe in a woman's right to choose, because, well, no one ever seems to tell guys what to do with their bodies.

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

The idea of not being able to control my own fertility genuinely terrifies me. That one mistake might change your life. That everything I am, and do, could be ended by the repeal of laws our mothers fought so hard for, that women had waited for the entire span of humanity to come about.

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.

I stand with the majority of Americans who believe that women will make the right choice for their families and everyone will win.

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

I believe that reproductive rights are human rights, and they are nonnegotiable.

We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision, and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, and, moreover, it's good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary.

I have come to believe that we must trust women and families - not politicians - to make the best decisions for their lives.

Every Democrat, like every American, should support a woman's right to make her own choices about her body and her health. That is not negotiable.

We must not let politicians who believe they are above the Constitution interfere with the personal health decisions of women. It is the job of a woman, not a politician, to make informed decisions about her own pregnancy.

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

Americans are guaranteed the constitutional right to legal abortion in Roe v. Wade, and it's past time for Republicans to stop using the issue as a political football. In fact, it's past time for Republican politicians to stop interfering in women's personal lives, period.

I have a traditional Catholic personal position, but I am very strongly supportive that women should make these decisions and government shouldn't intrude. I'm a strong supporter of Roe v. Wade and women being able to make these decisions. In government, we have enough things to worry about.