Reproductive Quotes

It`s okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women`s health in the field of reproductive freedom, and the next stage would be bringing menopause out of the closet.

Now that the FDA has legalized RU-486, it makes us feel that politically the winds are blowing our way. But, if someone has a problem with reproductive freedom, I won`t even consider voting for them. George W. Bush is anti-choice, and I really believe that should he be elected, we will end up in a really difficult situation - her views on abortion and reproductive rights, October 2000.

These animals have developed the most phenomenal adaptations. They can turn off their reproductive processes at will. They can live on the diet, like the koalas do, of leaves -- which no one else can get any nutriment out of. These are incredible animals.

There are other centers in the Valley, but we`re different because we are the only full-service reproductive center, ... Out patients don`t have to drive to Cleveland or Pittsburgh for anything, we can do it all here. It`s especially nice with our bad winters.

And, as if nature were protecting man against his own ingenuity, the reproductive processes were affected for a time; men became sterile, women had miscarriages, menstruation stopped.

Henry McCloskey, Jr, arranged the first initial meeting. And we met and we discussed, for the first time in my life, reproductive rights.

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.

Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.

We do restrict so-called reproductive freedom. We do not allow polygamy, we do not allow incest, we do not allow the buying and selling of babies.

If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.

I don`t believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.

Ask any woman and she`ll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive years, women spend 68% more on health care than men do.

We applied for a patent ... for some specific reproductive processes in swine. Any pigs that would be produced using this reproductive technique would be covered by these patents.

This is an example of the reproductive system being fine tuned. We know a lot about the gross regulation of the reproductive system, but fine tuning hasn`t been well understood at all.

In the age that I am, in my entire adult life that I have been lobbying for reproductive freedom--why does it seem like we`re going so far backwards?