Unwanted Pregnancy Quotes

“Many of us were the unplanned children of talented, creative women whose lives had been changed by unplanned and unwanted pregnancies. We witnessed their bitterness, their rage, their disappointment with their lot in life and we were clear that there could be no genuine sexual liberation for women and men without better, safer contraceptives, without the right to a safe, legal abortion.”
― bell hooks, Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

“Worse than aborting is birthing in instability.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society

“What happened if an unwanted child gave birth to an unwanted child? It was as though she were in a hall of mirrors, except that instead of getting smaller in each one, she got younger and younger.”
― Heather O'Neill, The Lonely Hearts Hotel

“Elva had said nothing to anyone. She prayed earnestly that she was "all right", explaining over and over again to God what the doctor had said, and how she couldn't properly look after the children she already had. Elva liked to pray in front of a statue similar to the one in her mother's living-room. She was not praying to the statue, but it was a kind of magical doll that kept her thoughts focussed on the Being to whom she prayed.”
― Ruth Park, Serpent's Delight

“A human is killed by accident way less often than a child is made by mistake.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Bleed womb. Bleed.

Spit out his poison.

I don't want to be pregnant to him.

I don't want his DNA mixed with mine.”
― Vanessa de Largie

“To take choice out of pregnancy is to take the mother out of motherhood.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting

“Motherless Motherhood (The Sonnet)

To take choice out of pregnancy,
Is to take the mother out of motherhood.
If childbirth isn't the mother's will,
Who the hell is state to make the rule!
State is a servant of the people,
Church is a servant of the people.
When they claim to be guardian supreme,
People must stand to spoil their gamble.
To take choice out of democracy,
Is to take citizens out of government.
But to take bigotry out of politics,
Is to take politics out of the state.
A society that equates woman with womb,
Is a society headed for its own tomb.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting

“Kids over cash,
Women over semen.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo