(150 quotes found)
“Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability.”
William H. Rehnquist
“If you think about it, if you're concealing or denying the pregnancy, you really don't have a plan. Sometimes they're denying it to themselves.”
Cheryl Meyer
“At the heart of the controversy in these cases are those recurring pregnancies that pose no danger whatsoever to the life or health of the mother but are, nevertheless, unwanted for any one or more of a variety of reasons — convenience, family planning, economics, dislike of children, the embarrassment of illegitimacy, etc. ... I find nothing in the language or history of the Constitution to support the Court's judgment. ... As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view, its judgment is an improvident and extravagant exercise of the power of judicial review that the Constitution extends to this Court.”
Byron R. White
“This is a reminder that age remains a primary factor with respect to pregnancy success and younger women have greater success than older women, even with technology.”
Victoria Wright
“Diet plays in my opinion an important role during pregnancy.”
David Downing
“Weight loss after pregnancy is safe but requires attention and guidelines.”
Debbie Meyer
“It's a long pregnancy and I interweave and explore both Eastern and Western opera styles in this opera.”
Tan Dun
“Without any evidence, the report just asserts that increased access to contraception reduces the numbers of unintended pregnancies and therefore abortions. But that assumption is unwarranted.”
Deirdre McQuade
“[If the Plan B battle reveals anything, it's that the opponents' real agenda is not to prevent unintended pregnancy and abortion. If that were so, they would be for all forms of contraception. They'd be for better sex education. They'd be for more family-planning counseling.] The problem is the right doesn't want greater access to birth control, ... and their opposition to Plan B proves it.”
Steve Gilliard
“This clearly shows that through the mid-'90s we have a dramatic drop in the teen pregnancy rate ... and that's very important. But we have to put that in the context of where we were to begin with, which is that we have one of the highest teen pregnancy rates of all industrialized countries.”
Susan Tew
