No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child without a permit for parenthood.
Margaret SangerRead
No one can doubt that there are times when an abortion is justifiable but they will become unnecessary when care is taken to prevent conception. This is the only cure for abortions.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Abortion may be justifiable in certain situations, but the focus should be on preventing unwanted pregnancies.
Margaret Sanger emphasizes that while there are circumstances where abortion can be considered acceptable, the priority should be on preventing conception through effective contraception. By highlighting this, she advocates for better reproductive health education and access to birth control as the ultimate solution to reduce the need for abortions.
Themes
AbortionPreventionConceptionReproductive Health
In practice
Example use cases
In a discussion about women's rights and health care, this quote can highlight the importance of access to contraception.
More from Margaret Sanger
All quotes →It is apparent that nothing short of contraceptives can put an end to the horrors of abortion and infanticide.
Margaret SangerRead
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 SangerRead
No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.
Margaret SangerRead
A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she has no response, it should not take place. This is an act of prostitution and is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.
Margaret SangerRead
War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.
Margaret SangerRead
Similar quotes
In an ideal world, the amount of money we spend on medical research to prevent or cure a disease would be proportional to its seriousness and the number of people who suffer from it.
Peter SingerRead
Those weeks before diagnosis can be among the most torturous times. There is a reason you're called a patient once the plastic bracelet goes on.
David RakoffRead
Low-income people, racial or ethnic minorities, pregnant women, seniors, people with special needs, people in rural areas - they all have a much harder time accessing a dentist than other groups of Americans.
Bernie SandersRead
Addiction is a chronic disease of the brain and it's one that we have to treat the way we would any other chronic illness: with skill, with compassion and with urgency.
Vivek MurthyRead
We all grew up in communities with grandmothers who cooked two, three vegetables that you had to eat. There was no ifs, ands or buts about it. But that's because many of our grandparents, they had community gardens; there was the vegetable man that came around. There were many other resources that allowed them to have access. So it's not that people don't know or don't want to do the right thing; they just have to have access to the foods that they know will make their families healthier.
Michelle ObamaRead
Who would not want an illness that has among its symptoms elevated and expansive mood, inflated self-esteem, abundance of energy, less need for sleep, intensified sexuality, and- most germane to our argument here-"sharpened and unusually creative thinking" and "increased productivity"?
Kay Redfield JamisonRead