Sandra Fluke Quotes

In the State House, we fought to protect reproductive freedom for all Mainers - I'll continue to fight for patients and providers in the Senate.

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.

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.

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.

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

The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act doesn't protect women's health. It threatens it.

A Supreme Court ruling is supposed to provide clarity to contentious legal issues, but in the case of reproductive rights, it was just the beginning of a long, heated, and grueling debate.

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.

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

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

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

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.

To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license.

It puts limits on criminals' rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman.

I am open and will continue to be open to ways to limit abortion. What I am not open to is to removing the right.

Without going into a philosophical debate on the rights of the unborn, it is important to recognize the right of women to safe abortion. Even in the case of medically-indicated abortions, the pregnancy termination often results in maternal death, and may cause serious morbidity.

Women should have the right to choose or not to choose abortion.

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

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.

… the mansion of constitutionalized abortion law, constructed overnight in Roe v. Wade, must be disassembled doorjamb by doorjamb.

Reproductive choice is a fundamental human right and we can never take it for granted. On this issue, you're either with us or against us.

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.

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

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.