Robert Bork Quotes

Reproductive rights are not just a women's issue.

I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.

The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.

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

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

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

A generation of women has grown up thinking of reproductive freedom as a constitutional right, and the Court should not casually take away rights that it has determined the Constitution guarantees.

We must... guarantee women control over their own reproductive decisions.

My pro-choice activism keeps me busy.

There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children.

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

A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.

Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.

Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond the Constitution.

We recognized ‘the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child.’ That right necessarily includes the right of a woman to decide whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

The Constitution is itself in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS.

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.

I don’t know why anybody would reproduce in that damn country [India] but they do.

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.

The U.S. Constitution guarantees women across this country, including my daughters, the right to choose for themselves when and how to start their families. Yet, more than forty years after Roe v. Wade, women's reproductive rights remain in jeopardy.

This pro-choice issue is a legal issue that should be decided by the courts.

I think that Roe v. Wade will ultimately be overturned. I think it'll fall of its own weight. It does not have any constitutional underpinnings.

As a member of the House Pro-Choice Caucus and a strong defender of a woman's right to choose, my bottom line here is this: women have a constitutional right to access abortion.

The Constitution has a good share of deliberately open-ended guarantees, like rights to due process of law, equal protection of the law, and freedom from unreasonable searches.

I come to urge my party to be open to debate and discussion; to move away from a lock-step litmus test which advocates abortion on demand in an effort to reach a broader national consensus.