Emily Oster Quotes

We need to respect choices that women make.

I reject the idea that when young women make choices with which we disagree, they are acting without autonomy.

Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups.

It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.

We ought to respect the right of women to make choices in their lives.

There is no way to treat fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses as separate constitutional persons [separate from the mother] without subtracting pregnant women from the community of constitutional persons.

Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision makers.

I think women have to be able to choose... sort of, the right of choice. They are the ones that have to make the decision because they're the ones that are going to decide to bring up that child or not.

We should let women make their own decisions.

We must... guarantee women control over their own reproductive decisions.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

We should recognize that women become mothers the moment they are pregnant.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

Women are responsible for creating their own roles.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves.

No public official, no congressman, has the right to tell a woman what decision she must make and no congressman has the wisdom to dictate what is best for her.

Abortion – Yes! But that is just the beginning…. My uterus is mine and it is up to me to look after it.

Everything a woman does while she’s pregnant becomes subject to state regulation.

While men stand proudly and face the sun, boasting that they have quenched the wickedness of slavery, what chains of slavery are, have been or ever could be so intimate a horror as the shackles on every limb—on every thought—on the very soul of an unwilling pregnant woman? .

… the right to an abortion is society’s down payment on all the rights we [women] are yet due.

We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision, and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, and, moreover, it's good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary.

I have come to believe that we must trust women and families - not politicians - to make the best decisions for their lives.

Every Democrat, like every American, should support a woman's right to make her own choices about her body and her health. That is not negotiable.