Abby Johnson Quotes

I will continue to work to maintain Planned Parenthood's ability to provide excellent health care to millions of women.

Consider this for a moment: House Republicans would rather cut off a woman's access to birth control, cancer screenings, and other preventative care from Planned Parenthood than continue to fund and operate the federal government.

Planned Parenthood claims to offer a wide variety of services, but they actually fall short in many areas.

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

The women who walk into Planned Parenthood clinics come from every background, every political persuasion.

I did not believe and I do not believe that Planned Parenthood should be defunded.

Planned Parenthood is absolutely wasteful spending.

These efforts to defund Planned Parenthood fail because one out of five American women have used Planned Parenthood at one time or another in their life. It's just a bad idea.

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.

I do believe that Planned Parenthood provides vital services to those in need and disagree with its funding cuts contained in the H.R. 1 package.

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.

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

Planned Parenthood has a large target on its back.

Planned Parenthood has consistently claimed to 'care' for women 'no matter what' and champion 'women's rights' - yet they frantically silence any woman who thinks women deserve better than Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood is a very important part of my professional life.

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

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

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

Everybody goes to clinics, to hospitals, to doctors, and so on. Some people go to Planned Parenthood. But you don't have to go to Planned Parenthood to get your cholesterol or your blood pressure checked. If you want an abortion, you go to Planned Parenthood, and that's well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.

In my opinion, the battles over birth control and Planned Parenthood are primarily neither political nor religious. This is an issue of equality for women. This is an issue of women's rights: Planned Parenthood is the most important private provider of reproductive health care for women in the United States.

I did work at Planned Parenthood between college and grad school. For me, anywhere that I worked or anywhere that I've come to know intimately is a great place to set a story because it's a place where you know all the details already, and you don't have to make them up; you can just borrow them.

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.

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

If Planned Parenthood wants to be involved in providing counseling services and HIV testing, they ought not be in the business of providing abortions.