Kate Michelman Quotes

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

Abortion is now safer for a woman than childbirth.

If we want to help pregnant women, let's make sure that each pregnancy is a wanted pregnancy.

In modern Britain the most dangerous place to be is in your mother's womb. It should be a place of sanctity.

Improved maternal health benefits the whole of society.

While the political debate over abortion will continue for a very long time, the federal government can and should be doing more to support programs and services that provide women with better options.

Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute.

Let's make sure that we don't close down 37 of the 42 clinics in Texas and leave women with nowhere to go and put them in a situation where their health will be at risk, because what we do know is that closing down the ability to access that service unfortunately does not take the need away or women's confronting that issue away.

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

Abortion has an important and positive public health effect.

… 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.

When contraceptive services are not available to women throughout the world, abortion rates increase.

I could foresee some terrific political and legal battles if women find out they have Zika in the later terms of their pregnancy.

So many state Republican governors and legislators are defunding Planned Parenthood and shutting down clinics that not only provide a safe abortion but HIV testing, cancer screenings, and so much else that women have every right to access, which is harder if you are unemployed or you are a low-income woman that's part of the real service that Planned Parenthood provides.

'Whole Women's Health' made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out.

I support religious liberty, but I also think it is very important as a Republican Party that we bring a compassionate tone when talking about women's health care issues, when we talk about pro-life and pro-choice.

Repealing the Eighth Amendment is about women who don't want to be pregnant. It's not about a certain type of woman, a certain age of woman - we all known sisters and mothers who have chosen to go on with a pregnancy and those who haven't.

I never talk about anything Hollywood or about politics. I will talk about how concerned I am about funding for Planned Parenthood, and how very sad it makes me when I see anything about children being separated from their parents.

There will always be issues where an abortion is necessary.

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.

I remember hearing a radio segment, while working in the studio, that detailed how officials were trying to systematically - and quietly - eliminate individual Planned Parenthood centres throughout the country by tweaking state laws so that it'd be harder and harder and harder for them to operate - and it was working. I was incensed.

Ethnic minority women generally have poorer outcomes from their pregnancy compared to white women.

The GOP wants to cut funding for birth control, place undue burdens on clinics that serve low income women and families, and defund Planned Parenthood.

I still support Planned Parenthood personally because they do a good job providing health care for women, have for generations in my congressional district.