Jedediah Bila Quotes

There was a time when researchers imagined that Plan B, or the morning-after pill, might become not an emergency form of contraception but a routine one; women would take it once a month to induce a period and never even know whether they had gotten pregnant.

Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.

The Constitution protects individual decisions in matters of childbearing from unjustified intrusion by the state ….The right to privacy in connection with decisions affecting procreation extends to minors as well as adults.

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

Cantwell is so extreme that she doesn't see anything wrong with 11-year-old girls getting Plan B without a prescription. She is more liberal than Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and more liberal than President Obama. That is pretty extreme - a lot farther to the Left than most Washingtonians are comfortable with.

In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights.

The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.

For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.

Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.

I feel very strongly about contraception even though I know people say that, as a good Catholic girl, I shouldn't. But I disagree because I think one of the keys to women's progression in the 20th century is being able to control their fertility.

The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug.

My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young.

The truth is that contraception saves lives, prevents unplanned pregnancies, improves outcomes for children and reduces the number of abortions.

It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices.

If you look at the cost of providing health insurance, it actually doesn't cost more to provide a plan with contraceptive coverage than it does without.

Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for abortion.

I was proud to share the stories of my friends at Georgetown Law who have suffered dire medical consequences because our student insurance does not cover contraception for the purpose of preventing pregnancy.

35 percent of U. S. births in the last 5 years were the result of unintended pregnancies …. That’s no surprise given recent efforts to reduce access to birth control, sex education, and abortion in this country.

Facts have never made any difference to birth control opponents, because in their minds, the use of contraceptives is itself irresponsible and immoral.

RU 486 is a human pesticide.

It is a very sad day for America when political ideology overrules good science and public health practices. The Food and Drug Administration has denied allowing the emergency contraception drug Plan B to be sold over-the-counter—ignoring its own panel of expert physicians, scientists and public health professionals who had voted overwhelmingly in favor of making the drug available over-the-counter … This pandering to right wing radicals will lead to more unwanted pregnancy, more abortions, and another step backwards for the women of our country.

The U. S. Agency for International Development has found that in every nation where information about contraception and access to methods of birth control are available, abortion rates decline

It is apparent that nothing short of contraceptives can put an end to the horrors of abortion and infanticide.

We’ve come a long way from more than a century ago when contraception was illegal, to today when—for the first time—all women may have access to free Birth Control…. It’s a personal choice, whether or not to use methods like “the pill.” But it’s to society’s great benefit to make sure every woman has this option.

Activists for retrograde social policy live in a world where if you don’t tell teenagers about contraception, they won’t have sex. But that world is not reality, and that fantastical view of human behavior should not dictate sex education policy in ... public schools. Yet it does.