Cecile Richards quotes
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“It's better to be a corporation today than to be a woman in front of the Supreme Court.”
-- Cecile RichardsSource : "The Crusade Against Reproductive Rights". "Moyers & Company", billmoyers.com. July 18, 2014.
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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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“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.”
-- Cecile RichardsSource : "Ending the Silence That Fuels Abortion Stigma" by Cecile Richards, www.elle.com. October 16, 2014.
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“We applaud Congress for extending equitable abortion coverage to female Peace Corps volunteers.”
-- Cecile RichardsSource : "Peace Corps Volunteers to Finally Receive Same Abortion Coverage as Federal Employees" by Caitlin Moscatello, www.glamour.com. December 15, 2014.
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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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“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.”
-- Cecile RichardsSource : "Cecile Richards DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.
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“Thanks to President Obama, being a woman will no longer be a pre-existing condition!”
-- Cecile RichardsSource : "Cecile Richards DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.
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“President Obama understands women. He trusts women. And on every issue that matters to us, he stands with women.”
-- Cecile RichardsSource : "Video, funding controversies put spotlight on Planned Parenthood boss". www.foxnews.com. October 01, 2015.
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“Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.”
-- Cecile RichardsSource : "Cecile Richards DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.
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“And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court.”
-- Cecile RichardsSource : "Cecile Richards DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.
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“This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.”
-- Cecile RichardsSource : Cecile Richards' Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.
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