Michelle Obama Quotes

I will defend Planned Parenthood. I will defend Roe v. Wade, and I will defend women's rights to make their own health care decisions.

I'm fortunate. I've always had medical care. I've always had access. I've never personally had to use a Planned Parenthood. But I have many friends who have and do and did, and I think it's important that that access be there for everyone.

And under Obamacare, insurance companies can no longer discriminate against women. Before, some wouldn't cover women's most basic needs, like contraception and maternity care, but would still charge us up to 50 percent more than men - for a worse plan.

Women are the primary healthcare consumers in the country. 80 percent of all healthcare decisions are made by women.

Ensuring Americans have access to adequate medical care should be a priority for all of us.

One can only presume, despite unequivocal polling to the contrary, that Republicans believe relentlessly attacking womens' abilities to make their own health care decisions is popular and will help them win elections. I believe it is at their peril that they pursue this anti-women agenda.

Every year, Planned Parenthood serves three million Americans - men and women - and one in five women will receive care at a Planned Parenthood clinic in her lifetime.

When I was in the Senate, I worked to pass Women's Health and Wellness Act, which bars insurance companies from discriminating against the health care needs of women.

I have been fighting to protect women's healthcare and reproductive rights for decades.

No woman should have her personal health care decisions dictated by the religious beliefs of her boss.

I believe that in New York, we must have one set of rules for everyone - and that means women cannot be unfairly denied health coverage.

I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.

I voted against H.R. 4712, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which is nothing more than a shameless attempt to intimidate doctors, spread misinformation about abortion, and decrease women's access to healthcare.

Getting the care for a common cold, migraine, or high blood pressure can and should be easy, whether one has an insurance card or not.

I think we can all agree that women deserve access to life saving, early detection procedures.

We need to stop trying to restrict access to lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, and well-woman exams.

No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.

Healthy moms mean healthy families. When my Republican colleagues held a hearing about birth control and refused to include a single woman on the first panel as a witness, I asked, "Where are the women?"

I'm Going To Make Available To Every American The Same Health Care Plan That Senators And Congressmen Give Themselves.

I would hate to think that among five women, one of 'em is gonna die because we go to socialized care.

From the very beginning the president [of USA] had two very important principles that had to be reconciled. One principle is that every woman should have the right to all forms of preventive health care, including contraception. The other is that we need to respect the religious liberties which are the cornerstone of American life.

I strongly support Roe v. Wade, which guarantees a constitutional right to a woman to make the most intimate, most difficult, in many cases, decisions about her health care that one can imagine.

We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.

All women deserve access to care that can save their lives.

As progressives we believe in affordable health care for all Americans.