The gag rule must be eliminated, and it's just the gag rule, we're not talking now even about funding abortion. We're talking about, you know, counseling and speaking, so that's one. That can be reversed by an executive order. [George W.]Bush put it in the first day he got in office. We hope that [Barack] Obama takes it out. He had cut off funding for the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, even though Congress had appropriated. It is injured women who are the poorest of the poor.
Eleanor SmealThere's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them.
Eleanor SmealWe've spent too much on how to destroy and blow up things with the military and too little on our health care, and too little on education, and it goes on.
Eleanor SmealI've been here a long time working for women. These are long years and this is an unusual legislator.
Eleanor SmealI'm not a prejudice person, and I've worked with many male legislators and some have been excellent for us, so I'm not speaking against a class of people.
Eleanor Smeal