Family Planning Quotes

• 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

  Children, Availability, Long

  "Martha Plimpton: Stop Undermining Women's Health With Personhood Amendments and Ultrasound Laws" by Martha Plimpton, www.slate.com. February 24, 2012.

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• One of the major causes of poverty is a lack of family planning. Governments and nonprofit organizations need to encourage poor people to use birth control so that they don't have unexpected babies, which will only make poorer families poorer.

  Philip Kotler

  Baby, Government, Organization

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily.

  Mother Teresa

  Love Is, Pro Life, Abortion

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.94, Image

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• I want every Filipino woman empowered with information regarding all options available to her regarding family planning.

  Lea Salonga

  Want, Information, Planning

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

  Hillary Clinton

  Safety, Abortion, Planning

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• 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

  Girl, Children, Care

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• The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child's health.

  Melinda Gates

  Children, Vaccines, Space

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• 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

  Husband, Self, Wife

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• 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

  Children, Cutting, Growth

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• 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

  Abortion, Planning, Parenthood

  "Democratic Congresswoman Jackie Speier Talks About Her Terminated Pregnancy" by Ryan Grim, Nick Wing, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 18, 2011.

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• 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

  Holiday, Men, Giving

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• Abortion and contraception are inextricably intertwined in their use. As the idea of family planning spreads through a community there appears to be a rise in the incidence of induced abortion at the point where the community begins to initiate the use of contraceptives.

  Malcolm Potts

  Ideas, Abortion, Community

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• 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

  Leader, Movement, Care

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• To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Abortion, Ears, Males

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.130, Take Root Media

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• UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I believe income-earning opportunities that empower poor women ... will have more impact on curbing population growth that the current system of "encouraging" family planning practices through intimidation tactics.. Family planning should be left to the family.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Country, Believe, Fall

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• In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.

  Melinda Gates

  Running, Vaccines, Long

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• Oh my, I've just discovered what science shows us about our humble but spectacular place in the universe, and I have to say: it is thrilling and mind-boggling beyond all imaginings! It makes the Bible so puny and uninspired, and certainly less poetic, by comparison. I'm terribly sorry. I sincerely misunderstood so much. I almost wish there were a God so I could be punished for all the suffering I have obliviously caused in the world. But since there will be no cosmic punishment for me, I will spend what time I have left working in a family planning clinic in Latin America. Good day.

  Julia Sweeney

  Sorry, Latin, Humble

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• 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

  Abortion, Receiving, United States

  Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.

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• We are totally opposed to abortion under any circumstances. We are also opposed to abortifacient drugs and chemicals like the pill and the IUD, and we are also opposed to all forms of birth control with the exception of natural family planning (the rhythm method)

  Judie Brown

  Abortion, Drug, Pills

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• Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Food, Cereal

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• The next most dangerous thing [after nuclear proliferation] is probably... global warming, and then, right behind that are overpopulation -- we need to get serious about family planning-and trying to alleviate poverty, to get clean, renewable energy, probably with solar panels to the billion and a half people in the world who don't have access to electricity.

  Ted Turner

  People, Trying, Serious

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• 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

  Thinking, Practice, Democracy

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• Childbearing, I mean, if there's no place to go to deliver your baby, then you're the one that's delivering in those unhealthy circumstances. Or if you can't get access to family planning, your chances of surviving and being able to bring your kids up if they come one right after the other, that locks you into a cycle of poverty.

  Melinda Gates

  Baby, Mean, Kids

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• Carolyn Maloney has been a consistent fighter for Afghan women but also for International Family Planning Bills.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Bills, Planning, Fighter

  Source: www.blogher.com

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• Which is more like genocide, I have asked some of my black brothers - this, the way things are, or the conditions I am fighting for in which the full range of family planning services is available to women of all classes and colors, starting with effective contraception and extending to safe, legal terminations of undesired pregnancies at a price they can afford?

  Shirley Chisholm

  Brother, Pregnancy, Fighting

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.137, Take Root Media

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