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

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

topic: Children, Availability, Long, Family Planning, Reproductive Rights

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

source: Source: bobmorris.biz

topic: Baby, Government, Organization, Causes Of Poverty, Family Planning

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

topic: Husband, Love Is, Self, Pro Abortion, Contraception

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

- Lea Salonga

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

topic: Want, Information, Planning, Family Planning

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

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Safety, Abortion, Planning, Maternal Health, Contraception

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

topic: Girl, Children, Care, Family Planning, Girl Child

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

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

topic: Children, Vaccines, Space, Family Planning

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

topic: Children, Cutting, Growth, Family Planning, Population Growth

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

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

topic: Abortion, Planning, Parenthood, Family Planning

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

topic: Holiday, Men, Giving, Vasectomy, Jingles

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

topic: Ideas, Abortion, Community, Incidence, Initiate

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

topic: Leader, Movement, Care, Family Planning

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

- Shirley Chisholm

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

topic: Abortion, Ears, Males, Family Planning

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

topic: Country, Believe, Fall, Developing Countries, Birth Rate

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

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

topic: Running, Vaccines, Long, Family Planning, Vaccinations

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

topic: Sorry, Latin, Humble, Mind Boggling, Family Planning

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

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

topic: Abortion, Receiving, United States, Family Planning, Gags

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

topic: Abortion, Drug, Pills, Family Planning

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

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Family, Food, Cereal, Funny Family, Family Planning

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

topic: People, Trying, Serious, Nuclear Proliferation, Solar Panels

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

topic: Thinking, Practice, Democracy, Foreign Aid, Family Planning

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

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

topic: Baby, Mean, Kids, Childbearing, Family Planning

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

- Eleanor Smeal

source: Source: www.blogher.com

topic: Family Planning

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

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

topic: Brother, Pregnancy, Fighting, Family Planning, Termination

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

topic: People, Trying, Narrative, Family Planning

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

topic: Men, Careers, Gains, Family Planning

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

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Children, Years, Vaccines, Bangladesh, Family Planning

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

source: Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

topic: Country, Reality, Self, Family Planning, Third World Countries

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

source: Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

topic: Order, Law, Organization, Family Planning, Human Service

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

source: Source: edition.cnn.com

topic: Moving, Government, Way, Family Planning

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

topic: Mean, College, Law, Electoral College, Family Planning

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

topic: Home, Simple, Government, Cairo, Family Planning

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

topic: Government, Abortion, Low Income, Incidence, State Government

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

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

topic: United States, Would Be, Clients, Unethical, Family Planning

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

topic: Years, President, United States, Family Planning, Population Control

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

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

topic: Medical Records, Capitol, Personal Information, Family Planning, Capitol Hill

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

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

topic: Doctors, Play, Roles, Family Planning, Preventing

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

topic: Pregnancy, Titles, Needs, Public Health, Family Planning

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

topic: Pregnancy, Mean, Obamacare, Family Planning, Unplanned Pregnancy

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

- Ron Paul

topic: Crazy, Government, Abortion, Facility, Family Planning

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

topic: Thinking, Issues, Women's Health, Family Planning

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

source: Source: eppc.org

topic: Mean, Judging, Filters, Family Planning

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

topic: Thinking, Issues, Years, Family Planning