Cecile Richards Quotes
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So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? It's like we woke up in a bad episode of 'Mad Men'.
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Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.
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And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court.
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No mother in the world wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did...
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President Obama understands women. He trusts women. And on every issue that matters to us, he stands with women.
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This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.
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The national policy of promoting abstinence-only programs is a $1.5 billion failure and teenage girls are paying the real price.
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We applaud Congress for extending equitable abortion coverage to female Peace Corps volunteers.
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I think young people are recognizing the power of institutions, and we have to really dismantle a lot of the stigma and shame, culturally, but we also have to change things in terms of how government and institutions deal with this.
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At Planned Parenthood, we see the impact of abortion stigma firsthand, in the women who delay getting reproductive health care because they fear they’ll be labeled and judged. We see the effect of stigma on doctors, health center staffers, and others who help provide abortion services. And we see the impact in laws that regulate and restrict abortion in ways that would never happen with any other medical procedure.
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I think we're all fighting for the day in which partisan politics is no longer something that is used to attack women's access to health care.
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I'm just so amazed by people who are willing to share things that, in the past, no one would have ever talked about. Folks in popular culture being willing to take on issues, I think that is such a key part of having a culture shift and an institutional shift.
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I can't imagine that my children would have fewer rights, and less access to the safest, best health care.
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It's better to be a corporation today than to be a woman in front of the Supreme Court.
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Thanks to President Obama, being a woman will no longer be a pre-existing condition!
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