Family Planning Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  People, Trying, Narrative

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• The way to plan the family is natural family planning, not contraception...This (use of contraceptives) turns the attention to self and so it destroys the gift of love in him or her. In loving, the husband and wife must turn the attention to each other as happens in natural family planning, and not to self, as happens in contraception. Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows easily . . . And abortion, which often follows from contraception, brings a people to be spiritually poor, and that is the worst poverty and the most difficult to overcome.

  Mother Teresa

  Husband, Love Is, Self

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• 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

  Men, Careers, Pills

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• I've travelled extensively in the last 16 years - to slums in Bangladesh, to townships in South Africa, to all kinds of places in India, etc. When I would go and talk to villagers about something like vaccines, if I stayed long enough, the women would bring the conversation around and say: "What about this family planning tool? We can't keep having the number of children we're having."

  Melinda Gates

  Children, Years, Vaccines

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• A focus on people's health and well-being must be the core of family planning research and policy. This may seem self-evident, but the realities of program implementation in third world countries has often shown that the health and well-being of individuals is not a priority.

  Ruth Simmons

  Country, Reality, Self

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Bureaucratic systems are not set up to be what we refer to as human service organizations. They were established to collect revenue and maintain law and order and they used a law and order approach in providing family planning services.

  Ruth Simmons

  Order, Law, Organization

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• 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

  Moving, Government, Way

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• The worst thing we can do is to assume that the Electoral College [voting] resulting in the election of Donald Trump represents a mandate. It does not. He did not get the majority of the popular vote; that went to Hillary Clinton. That means those votes represent the consciousness of the nation, which is that abortion should be legal, that contraception and family planning are health issues and prevention, that a woman's right to reproductive privacy is the law of the land and should remain such.

  Willie Parker

  Mean, College, Law

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• The Cairo conferenceis about a complicated web of education and employment, consumption and poverty, development and health care. It is also about whether governments will follow where women have so clearly led them, toward safe, simple and reliable choices in family planning. While Cairo crackles with conflict, in the homes of the world the orthodoxies have been duly heard, and roundly ignored.

  Anna Quindlen

  Home, Simple, Government

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• 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

  Government, Abortion, Low Income

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• Many family planning clinics and - and programs that service women have refused now to take women's - United State's money because they feel that it would be unethical, and it could injure their clients even more, their patients even more. That has to be changed.

  Eleanor Smeal

  United States, Would Be, Clients

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

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• This year, the United States renewed funding of reproductive healthcare through the United Nations Population Fund, and more funding is on the way. The U.S. Congress recently appropriated more than $648 million in foreign assistance to family planning and reproductive health programs worldwide. That's the largest allocation in more than a decade - since we last had a Democratic president, I might add.

  Hillary Clinton

  Years, President, United States

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• We see it in attempts on Capitol Hill to impose gag rules on rules on doctors on what they can say to their patients about family planning. And we certainly see it now with an effort by the government to tap our phones; invade our medical records, credit information, library records and the most sensitive personal information in the name of national security.

  Dick Durbin

  Names, Doctors, Phones

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• 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

  Doctors, Play, Roles

  "Why Protests Aren’t What we Should Remember About The G8" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2010.

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• 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

  Pregnancy, Titles, Needs

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• Donald Trump has every intention to repeal the Affordable Care Act, as much because it's known as Obamacare [as because he wants] to try and deconstruct the legacy of President Obama. But that has implications that mean women who were accessing family planning and contraception as a preventative service with no co-pay will lose access to that coverage. We [will] only see an exacerbation of the things we were engaged in trying to prevent - like unplanned pregnancy and the need for abortion, which creates a societal dilemma.

  Willie Parker

  Pregnancy, Mean, Obamacare

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• I will veto any spending bill that contains funding for Planned Parenthood, facilities that perform abortion and all government family planning schemes.

  Ron Paul

  Crazy, Government, Abortion

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• 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

  Thinking, Issues, Women's Health

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• But ripped out of context, ["Who am I to judge?" phrase] has become an all-purpose filter through which everything else - including the pope's multiple reaffirmations of Humanae Vitae, Paul VI's encyclical on the morally appropriate means of family planning - gets airbrushed out of the picture.

  George Weigel

  Mean, Judging, Filters

  Source: eppc.org

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• I think it's really important to enlarge the issue behind abortion. I have been serving for over two decades and I have seen year in and year out largely the Republicans voting against women's contraception, family planning.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Years, Two

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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