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Carolyn Maloney has been a consistent fighter for Afghan women but also for International Family Planning Bills. -- Eleanor Smeal
The gag rule is, is that if any program receiving United States funding for Family Planning cannot mention, cannot speak the word "abortion" in the Third World. -- Eleanor Smeal
It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits. -- Martha Plimpton
In the Buddhist scriptures, it said many births cause suffering, so Buddhism is not against family planning. -- Mechai Viravaidya
I want every Filipino woman empowered with information regarding all options available to her regarding family planning. -- Lea Salonga
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial. -- Erma Bombeck
You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion. -- Hillary Clinton
When the poor know that their children will survive, when they educate their daughters, when they access family planning, they have fewer children. -- Nicholas Kristof
Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning services. Planned parenthood has a right to perform abortions. -- Jackie Speier
A girl child who is even a little bit educated is more conscious of family planning, health care and, in turn, her children's own education. -- Azim Premji
Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in when complications arise. -- Liya Kebede
Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men. -- Jennifer Granholm
As the largest contributor to the United Nations and funder of international family planning, the U.S. is in a unique position to continue to lead the global agenda and place reproductive health at its core. -- Mike Quigley
Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program. -- Louise Slaughter
There is nothing new about these Republican attacks on our family planning decisions. In fact, from the moment they came into power, Republicans in the House of Representatives have been waging a war on women's health. -- Patty Murray
Every second, every day, every year, we fail to address demand for reproductive health and family planning services. Lives are lost, and girls' opportunities to thrive and contribute to their country's development shrink. These are real people. -- Jenny Shipley
Expanding eligibility of family planning services to low-income women will maximize cost-savings to both federal and state governments, reduce the disparities in access to family planning services for low-income women, and decrease the incidence of abortion in the U.S. -- Rosa DeLauro
Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although among the poorest peoples of the world, have brought their fertility rate down to 2.4, partly by social coercion, but mostly by broadly available education, health care and family planning. -- Donella Meadows
World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not be if their mothers had access to cheap, reliable family planning, had enough personal empowerment to stand up to their husbands and relatives, and could choose their own family size. -- Donella Meadows
From China and India to Turkey and Brazil, when women have gotten access to education, to family planning and to a vital place in the economy, greater prosperity has followed. And when women are free to speak and learn, they temper the extremes of ideology and fanaticism and raise sons who are less likely to become human bombs. -- David Horsey
We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent unintended pregnancy. We believe that a woman considering an abortion should not be forced to have an ultrasound against her will. -- Nancy Keenan
The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her -- Mother Teresa
When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence. -- Atom Egoyan
To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears. -- Shirley Chisholm
The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Writing system software is like planning a family.If you make a mistake you have to live with it for 20 years. -- Richard Marshall
I will veto any spending bill that contains funding for Planned Parenthood, facilities that perform abortion and all government family planning schemes. -- Ron Paul
Family planning experts are now recommending giving men vasectomy gift cards for the holidays. Talk about taking the jingle out of the bells. -- Jay Leno
We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded. -- William Easterly
Certainly, my friends and the common narrative is people are trying to shore up their own lives with regards to family planning and reproduction. -- Willie Parker
Third world nations are producing too many children too fast...it is time to ignore the controversy over family planning and cut out-of-control population growth... -- Al Gore
Estate planning is an important and everlasting gift you can give your family. And setting up a smooth inheritance isn't as hard as you might think. -- Suze Orman
Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry. -- Walter Ulbricht
The only life many of the leaders of the anti-family planning movement seem to care about -- indeed obsess about -- is life before birth and after death. -- Riane Eisler
I left the government because I saw the only way to get family planning moving, was to do it outside the government. I was never disillusioned with government. -- Mechai Viravaidya
I think we're at a place wherea woman's health is danger because of whether this family planning or contraception or any issues that relate to women's health, there's an assault on that in the Congress. -- Barack Obama

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