Hillary Clinton Quotes

Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.

These same people who accuse Planned Parenthood of 'targeting' African-American children, they care about you only while you're in the womb. The minute you crown, you're on your own.

Every second, every day, every year, we fail to address demand for reproductive health and family planning services. Lives are lost, and girls' opportunities to thrive and contribute to their country's development shrink. These are real people.

There has never been more at stake for women's health and rights.

It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage.

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

One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice.

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.

To put it mildly, I'm not crazy about the implication that pregnant women are incapable of deciding for themselves.

Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.

It is the patriotic duty of women to bear four children.

If they [Indian women] tire of their men, they give themselves abortions with herbs that force stillbirths ...

Child care, abortion and women in the labor force. White women must get in line behind us. The issue is survival.

Liberating women from repeated childbirth can liberate them from poverty as well.

Our nation cannot call for respect for human rights when it lacks the moral courage to save its own cities, its own poor, its own minorities whose rights are trampled upon.

… 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.

I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one hundred men because of a decision handed down by a court comprised of nine men—on an issue that affects millions of women.... I have the feeling that if men could get pregnant, we wouldn’t be struggling for this legislation. If men could get pregnant, maternity benefits would be as sacrosanct as the G.I. Bill.

If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be inexpensive, too.

People should not have all these privileges and advantages just because they emerged from the right vagina.

I think women have to be able to choose... sort of, the right of choice. They are the ones that have to make the decision because they're the ones that are going to decide to bring up that child or not.

I believe that reproductive rights are human rights, and they are nonnegotiable.

There are disparities in accessing quality maternity health care in most every country, and most all health systems could and must be improved upon if we want to create healthy families who will thrive.

Reproductive rights are not just a women's issue.

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