Abby Johnson Quotes

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.

Planned Parenthood has amassed a Third Reich-style death count completely legally and while pocketing half a billion dollars a year to do so.

I have always stood up to protect women's access to safe and legal abortion, birth control and health care at Planned Parenthood.

Let me be clear: since I am pro-life, I do not support the mission of Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood doesn't care about women's health care needs; it cares about abortion.

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.

Planned Parenthood has a large target on its back.

No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.

One of my top priorities will be to defund Planned Parenthood.

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

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

Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.

Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.

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.

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.

Abortion is a right I feel must not go away, and I feel like people aren't mobilizing so much because it's so complicated and it's difficult to understand.

I don't think the objective of an abortion clinic is to try to talk women out of having the procedure. That obviously would not be positive for their bottom line.

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

Abortion has an important and positive public health effect.

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.

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

There are fewer unwanted pregnancies and fewer occasions where a woman is confronted with that decision if she has access to family planning and birth control. That's why I support Planned Parenthood; that's why I support Title X.

For women, access to reproductive health care isn't a political issue.

Since 'Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights' came out, I've done a fair amount of public speaking, and the two statistics that always make the audience sit up are that nearly one in three women will have had at least one abortion by menopause and 61 percent of women who have abortions are already mothers.

Reproductive health decisions should be made by a woman and her doctor. Any efforts to undermine women's reproductive rights must stop.