Jeanne Shaheen Quotes

The main reason Italian women resort to abortion is the Catholic insistence that no birth control information be distributed.

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

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.

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

There are fewer unwanted pregnancies and fewer occasions where a woman is confronted with that decision if she has access to family planning and birth control. That's why I support Planned Parenthood; that's why I support Title X.

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

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.

The public likes to think that women only care about contraception.

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.

35 percent of U. S. births in the last 5 years were the result of unintended pregnancies …. That’s no surprise given recent efforts to reduce access to birth control, sex education, and abortion in this country.

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.

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

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.

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.

With the development of the [birth control] pill, “womanhood” would no longer mean the same thing as “motherhood”.

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

What's happened with the over-the-counter birth control issue is that the Democrats didn't see it coming. They think that they've got a monopoly on talking to women from the waist down. Anything that has to do with reproduction and birth control and abortion - they call it women's health, then they call it women's issues.

I do not support legislation that would ban birth control.

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

If you want to truly stand up for women's reproductive rights, then stand against birth control. Because nothing says anti-woman more than birth control.

Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.

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