Abby Johnson Quotes

If the vice president thinks it’s disgraceful for an unmarried woman to bear a child, and if he believes that a woman cannot adequately raise a child without a father, then he’d better make sure that abortion remains safe and legal.

People come up to me... concerned... that I'll reproduce.

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.

Just because you can have a baby, it doesn't mean you should. Especially without planning for one or getting married first.

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.

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

When I say, 'I want women to have control over their bodies,' I mean that I want women to know and embrace their fertility.

I tried immediately to have a baby because I was so afraid not to have a baby in my life.

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

There must be a better reason to have a baby than to provide a plot point in a rom-com. Don't you think?

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

When I last looked, there weren't queues of eager guys under 40 hanging outside single ladies' doors begging them to give up work and have their babies. It takes two to tango and the same number, without medical help, to make a child.

I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies.

Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.

I've always been interested in the economics of reproduction, who gets what they want when it comes to childbearing and how these days, money is a tremendous advantage.

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

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

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.

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.

We never use the phrase population control. It has an implication of coercion.

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.

The question of regulating birth rates is highly complex and that any standardized, dogmatic solution "for all time and all peoples" would be wrong.

In America, access to birth control is controlled by those who never use it.

I don’t know why anybody would reproduce in that damn country [India] but they do.

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.