Gloria Feldt Quotes (22 Quotes)

When I started out 30 years ago, there was plenty of money for counselors as well as medical care providers. Counselors are very experienced and expensive. My observation is that that's where a lot of the cuts have been made. For patients who have other kinds of emotional problems, there's less counseling staff to spend extensive time.

The Ashcroft Department of Justice can no longer threaten Planned Parenthood doctors with the daunting specter of criminal prosecution for putting their patients first.

Planned Parenthood is a health care provider, first and foremost. The wonderful day should come at some point when all of our concerns would be about providing the best quality of care, not fighting people who want to eliminate family-planning programs.

The jury saw the posters for what they are -- a hit list for terrorists.

In the wake of his comments last month that he would not apply an abortion-rights litmus test ... understands viscerally reproductive rights as being related to women's human rights. ... But he's got to come up with some better language to talk about it.

This ruling is a critical step toward ensuring that women and doctors -- not politicians -- can make private, personal health care decisions,

implementation of this dangerous and reckless abortion ban.

The abortion ban is a brazen affront to women's health, the right to medical privacy and the U. S. Constitution and was rightfully struck down,

We have a moral obligation to the women of America. Make no mistake about it -- there is a war on choice, and it is a war we must win and we can win.

To offer them money in a situation where it could be just feeding their habit -- it really smacks of coercion.

The pro-choice movement is going to be speaking up and speaking out, ... To those who oppose abortion, my message is, 'Join with us to prevent the need for abortion.'

This dangerous ban prevents women, in consultation with their families and doctors, from making decisions about their own health, ... We hope the court will recognize the unconstitutionality of this ban and strike it down.

When these voters are introduced to Gov. George W. Bush's positions on family planning and abortion, they move solidly against him, ... George Bush sees compassionate conservatives as his strength. We believe they are his Achilles' heel.

If, as we hope, the study shows that these medications are safe and effective for early abortion, we will make a special request of the FDA,

If these restrictions were necessary, the FDA would have promulgated them in the first place, ... The FDA knows how to evaluate scientific information. Congress knows nothing about that.

We have found that for some women they just regard this as an excellent option, and this is what they would choose and what they would recommend to others. For other women, it's not.

This unconstitutional law denies women, in consultation with their doctors and families, the right to make decisions about their own health,

Today's ruling is a landmark victory for medical privacy rights and women's health,

I think that this Administration and Congress are weaving a pernicious web of anti-choice initiatives that taken together strangle reproductive rights.

I don't think it will have any effect whatsoever on rates of abortion or rates of unintended pregnancy.

Thankfully, the court understood the immediacy of this situation and temporarily stopped this law from taking effect.

The explosion in the number of legislative initiatives and the number of individuals who are just saying, 'We're not going to fill that prescription for you because we don't believe in it' is astonishing.