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The need for health care doesn't come with a party label.
Cecile Richards / Activist
Health Care Need
Label
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For women, access to reproductive health care isn't a political issue.
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Access
Health Care
Health Women Political
Issue
Reproductive
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Try to know where the best ice cream is in any given airport terminal.
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Cream
Ice
Ice Cream
Airport
Best Know Try
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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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Badass
Tables
Years
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No mother in the world wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did...
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Daughter
Mother
Rights
World
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Thanks to President Obama, being a woman will no longer be a pre-existing condition!
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Being A Woman
President
President Obama
Thanks
Condition
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Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.
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Birth
Birth Control
Illegal
Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
Years
Years Ago
Nearly
Planned
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No parent wants their child to get an infection or get pregnant before they're ready.
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Pregnant
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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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Corporations
Court
Today
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I think women have the opportunity to change the landscape and change the direction of America.
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Landscape
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We applaud Congress for extending equitable abortion coverage to female Peace Corps volunteers.
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Abortion
Female
Volunteer
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I'm not a fashion person. I basically like to wear navy blue, and I don't need a lot of extras.
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Blue
Navy
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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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Cabinets
Court
President
President Obama
Serving
Supreme
Supreme Court
Cabinet
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The women who walk into Planned Parenthood clinics come from every background, every political persuasion.
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Parenthood
Persuasion
Planned Parenthood
Clinics
Planned
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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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Care
Children
Rights
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My dad was a civil rights lawyer, and he was actually defending conscientious objectors to the Vietnam War.
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Civil Rights
Lawyer
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Conscientious
Defending
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The good news is when we are in full-on sisterhood, women are the most powerful, political force in America.
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Force
Good News
Most Powerful
News
Powerful
Sisterhood
Women Are
Full-On
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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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Issues
Matter
President
President Obama
Matters
Stands
Trusts
Understands
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All my life, I've been lucky to work in social justice, starting as a labor organizer working with low-wage working women.
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Labor
Organizer
Social Justice
Life Work Women
All My Life
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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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Girl
Real
Teenage
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As I say, I can't wait until Congress - half of Congress can get pregnant so we can quit fighting about birth control and Planned Parenthood.
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Birth
Birth Control
Congress
Fighting
Half
Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
Pregnant
Wait
Planned
Quit
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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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Care
Fighting
Thinking
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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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Men
Fighting
Mad
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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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Access
Birth
Birth Control
Mad Men
Politicians
Episode
Woke
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All across the country, the Women's March inspired doctors and teachers and mothers to become activists and organizers and, yes, candidates for office.
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Candidates
March
Activists
Mothers
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One of the things I'm proud of at Planned Parenthood is the number of health centers providing trans care, which was largely driven by young activists.
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Driven
Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
Providing
Activists
Centers
Largely
Planned
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You can go a lot of places or make a lot of money, but there's nothing quite like having a job where people actually say to you, 'Thanks for making my life better.'
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Thanks
Life Money Better
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If you look at the workforce and the way our laws work around so many issues, it's as if women are supposed to retrofit themselves into a workplace that was never created for them.
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Workforce
Work Women Look
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I'm grateful to women who have the privilege and ability to tell their stories and applaud them for doing that. And also recognize that there are many, many women in this country who will never have that opportunity.
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Applaud
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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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People
Thinking
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Dealing with men in Congress - for the most part, it's pretty dispiriting in terms of the lack of regard they have for women. And they're not even... it's like they don't know what they don't know, and they don't even care what they don't know.
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Regard
Women Men Care
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I've led a very privileged life. You know, I've gotten to choose the work I do, and I hope every job I've had has been a little bit about trying to push the ball forward, particularly for folks who may not have the same opportunities that I've had.
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Privileged
Life Work Hope
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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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Keys
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Thinking
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I worked with women who were nurses and workers, women who worked in hotels, janitors who basically cleaned buildings, worked two jobs just to support their family. And, it really taught me a lot about how much opportunity I had to do anything I wanted to with my life.
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Workers
Life Family Women
Buildings
Cleaned
Hotels
Nurses
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I would be excited if we could reimagine workplaces that start from a premise that women are going to be a central part: Women are going to bear children, people are going to raise those children, and it's not going to be a nuisance - it's actually going to be understood as part of the deal.
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Nuisance
Bear
Premise
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Even though my mom was talented and had a college degree, she lived in the era when the conventional wisdom in Dallas was that my dad worked, she was supposed to stay home and take care of the kids, and that was that. There really weren't other opportunities for her, and most of them were volunteer opportunities.
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College Degree
Conventional
Conventional Wisdom
Dallas
Volunteer
Talented
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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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Doctors
Impact
Law
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