Jonathan Eig Quotes

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.

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.

If you want to control human reproduction you have to control women’s bodies.

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.

Margaret Sanger didn't just introduce the idea of birth control into our culture at large, she freed women from indenture to their bodies.

Choice is a uniquely female issue. We don't share the same reproductive systems.

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.

To me, the biggest revolution of the 20th century was the pill.

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

Personally, I'd be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their grandparents would find themselves on the same side.

…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.

So we want to free the women of America? You know what would free the women of America? Make men accept responsibility for birth control.

Women, justifiably, feel vulnerable at a time so many years after their journey for reproductive freedom started.

The idea of not being able to control my own fertility genuinely terrifies me. That one mistake might change your life. That everything I am, and do, could be ended by the repeal of laws our mothers fought so hard for, that women had waited for the entire span of humanity to come about.

Placing Margaret Sanger on the $20 bill will remind us of what she has done for women and our reproductive health and how the fight for reproductive freedom is an ongoing one.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

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

The public likes to think that women only care about contraception.

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.

If the Democrats want to insult women by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it.

I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.

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.

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

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