American teens have the worst of all worlds ... Our children are bombarded and confronted with sexual messages, sexual exploitation, and all manner of sexual criticism. But our society is by and large sexually illiterate.

I think we have deluded ourselves into believing that people don't know that abortion is killing. So any pretense that abortion is not killing is a signal of our ambivalence, a signal that we cannot say yes, it kills a fetus.

The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.

My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.

Men's reproduction isn't regulated by the state -- and it shouldn't be. Neither should women's.

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.