Pro Choice Quotes "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." Margaret Sanger "Faced  with a choice between the law and our lives, we will choose our lives."  "Jane"  From Abortion to Reproductive Freedom “What is this ban on abortion? It is a survival of the veiled face, of the barred window and the locked door, burning, branding, mutilation, stoning, of all the grip of ownership and superstition come down on woman, thousands of years ago.” - Stella Browne, socialist, feminist who campaigned for the right to abortion and contraception during the first half of the 20th century. “The Pope Is Fallible, The Planet Is Fillable, Promote Birth Control” (bumper sticker) “For many people, morality means a set of rules governing the disposition on one’s genital organs; or a set of injunctions against lying, stealing, or killing except when such acts are sanctioned by church or state.”  - Marilyn French from “Beyond Power” pg 16 "When you peel back the layers of the anti-choice motivation, it always comes back to two things: What is the nature and purpose of human sexuality? And second, what is the role of women in the world?" Sex and the role of women are inextricably linked, because "if you can separate sex from procreation, you have given women the ability to participate in society on an equal basis with men."   Gloria Feldt, the former president of Planned Parenthood “Women are not dying because of diseases we cannot treat. They are dying because societies have yet to make the decision that their lives are worth saving.” Prof. Mahmoud Fathalla,MD, PhD, 1997 Former President of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Assiut University, Egypt. " All of women's aspirations, whether for education, work or any form of self-determination, ultimately rest on their ability to decide whether and when to bear children." Susan  Faludi   author of "Backlush" "The modern family is deeply offensive to the Christian right. The family structures in which we are living today, in which both parents are equal and they both bring home a living, they get to choose the number of children they have to what they can support and want -- that is offensive to the pro-life establishment. The whole reason why none of their programs are leading to fewer abortions is because that's simply not the point. The point isn't about abortion, it's about the family."  Christina Page, author of "How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America" "No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock in death embrace with another, but behind them loomed the driving power of a population too large for its boundaries and its natural resources." Margaret Sanger, birth control pioneer "Women have got to stop feeling like they owe the world a truckload of guilt simply because they exercised their legal right to govern their own reproduction." Clementine Ford, Sunday Mail "Because women's work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we're the first to get fired and what we look like is more important than what we do and if we get raped it's our fault and if we get beaten we must have provoked it and if we raise our voices we're nagging bitches and if we enjoy sex we're nymphos and if we don't we're frigid and if we love women it's because we can't get a "real" man and if we ask our doctor too many questions we're neurotic and/or pushy and if we expect childcare we're selfish and if we stand up for our rights we're aggressive and "unfeminine" and if we don't we're typical weak females and if we want to get married we're out to trap a man and if we don't we're unnatural and because we still can't get an adequate safe contraceptive but men can walk on the moon and if we can't cope or don't want a pregnancy we're made to feel guilty about abortion and...for lots of other reasons we are part of the women's liberation movement."  Author unknown, quoted in The Torch, 14 September 1987 Pro Life Quotes