Robert Casey Quotes

Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.

… the lack of access to basic family planning services and information undermines a woman’s ability to determine her own destiny. It also increases illness and mortality rates of women and their children, and inhibits the ability of families to climb out of poverty.

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.

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

Woman must have her freedom; the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she shall be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers; and before it can be his, it is hers alone.

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

The passage of time hasn't changed the fact that abortion is a serious, lethal violation of fundamental human rights, and that women and children deserve better, and that the demands of justice, generosity, and compassion require that the right to life be guaranteed to everyone.

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.

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.

There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.

Seventy-seven percent of anti-abortion leaders are men. 100% of them will never be pregnant.

Abortion is now safer for a woman than childbirth.

Our vision should be of an America where abortion is safe and legal, but rare.

Abortion has an important and positive public health effect.

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.

There is something mindboggling about telling a girl that she’s old enough to be pregnant but not old enough to use birth control.

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers’ suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.

If the vice president thinks it’s disgraceful for an unmarried woman to bear a child, and if he believes that a woman cannot adequately raise a child without a father, then he’d better make sure that abortion remains safe and legal.

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.

…American women… have learned it should be for them to decide when and how often they shall take upon themselves the sacred duties of motherhood, but as law and custom give to the husband absolute control of the wife’s person, she is forced to not only violate physical law, but to outrage the holiest instincts of her being to maintain even a semblance of that freedom which by nature belongs to every human soul.

Birth control...is demeaning to women, degrading of human sexuality, and averse to human health and happiness.

Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she must take to be man’s equal. It is the first step they must both take toward human emancipation.

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.