“If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be cheap, too.” IfsMenWould BeBirthSafeMethodPregnantBirth ControlInexpensive Author:Anna Quindlen
“Whatever each individual woman is facing; only she knows her biggest challenge. However, if we add up the problems that affect the biggest numbers of women, then issues having to do with physical safety and reproduction are still the biggest. Female bodies are still the battleground, whether that means restricting freedom, birth control and safe abortion in order to turn them into factories, or abandoning female infants because females are less valuable for everything other than reproduction.” IfsKnowsMeanStillsProblemBodyOrderTurnsIndividualChallengesNumbersIssuesBirthSafeFemaleSafetyAddValuableAbortionFactoriesInfantReproductionBirth ControlFemale BodyBattleground Author:Gloria Steinem
“The Cairo conferenceis about a complicated web of education and employment, consumption and poverty, development and health care. It is also about whether governments will follow where women have so clearly led them, toward safe, simple and reliable choices in family planning. While Cairo crackles with conflict, in the homes of the world the orthodoxies have been duly heard, and roundly ignored.” WorldHas BeensHomeGovernmentCareChoicesSimplePovertyHeardDevelopmentBirthSafeConflictInstitutionsComplicatedPlanningEmploymentHealth CareRebellionConsumptionIgnoredOrthodoxyBirth ControlFamily PlanningCairo Author:Anna Quindlen
“I'll protect and expand access to no-copay birth control and safe, legal abortion.” BirthProtectSafeAccessAbortionBirth Control Author:Hillary Clinton
“I'm always amazed to hear my more conservative colleagues talking about how they care about life. They're pro-life, but when it comes down to safe work environments that allow for unions, being able to pay for child care, having family leave - they don't care about any of that. That's where I argue that they're not pro-life, they're pro-birth.” ChildrenCareAblePayTalkingEnvironmentBirthSafeUnionsConservativeDon't CareArguingAmazedColleaguesPro LifeChild CareWork Environment Author:Nina Turner
“The Law is supposed to keep us safe and strong and able to birth healthy children, yet the Law wants us to tear each other apart to find a leader. The Law's a bunch of hypocrisy.” WantChildrenAbleLawStrongLeaderTearsBirthHealthySafeBunchHypocrisyHealthy Children Author:Annette Curtis Klause