Lisa Murkowski Quotes

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

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

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

Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.

Our vision should be of an America where abortion is safe and legal, but rare.

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

I don't think most conservatives are against access to birth control, but they are wary of funding things like Planned Parenthood.

As Governor, I will direct my Secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services not to distribute federal taxpayer dollars from that department to Planned Parenthood clinics.

In my twenties, I relied on Planned Parenthood as my health care provider - and throughout my time in the State House, I have fought for Mainers' reproductive rights.

We have all these politicians that claim they're pro-life and that say women should not be able to get abortions and all this other stuff... there's nothing more pro-life than helping a woman who wants to have a child have a child. Then I realized that health insurance doesn't cover IVF.

It's laughable to claim the pro-life label while simultaneously putting people's lives at risk because you're too stubborn to acknowledge that Medicaid doesn't fund abortions.

Planned Parenthood should absolutely be defunded. I mean if you look at what's going on with that, it's terrible. And many other things should be defunded and many things should be cut.

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

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

We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent unintended pregnancy. We believe that a woman considering an abortion should not be forced to have an ultrasound against her will.

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.

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.

One out of three American women will need or chose an abortion at some time in their lives. We have to make sure these are safe.

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

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.

For women, access to reproductive health care isn't a political issue.

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

I'm proud to have earned a 100 percent score from Planned Parenthood and to have been previously endorsed by both Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro Choice.

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

Taxpayer-funded abortion, especially the devil's bargain with Planned Parenthood, must cease immediately. To be clear, that means I believe Planned Parenthood should receive no tax monies of any kind.