Reproductive Health Quotes:

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Positive, Happiness, Courage, Inspirational Buddhist, Spiritual Health

If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.

- Leon Kass

topic: Cloning, Process, Reproductive Health

Ask any woman and she'll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive years, women spend 68% more on health care than men do.

- Rod Blagojevich

topic: Men, Years, Facts, Reproductive Health

Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Religious, Political Will, Law, Reproductive Health

It's okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women's health in the field of reproductive freedom, and the next stage would be bringing menopause out of the closet.

- Cybill Shepherd

topic: Would Be, Fields, Advocacy, Women's Health, Menopause

Employers should not be able to impose their religious beliefs on female employees, ignoring their individual health decisions and denying their right to reproductive care. Bosses belong in the boardroom, not in the bedroom.

- Dina Titus

topic: Religious, Decision, Boss, Religious Belief, Reproductive Health

Sexual and reproductive health and rights are universal human rights!They are an indivisible part of the broader human rights and development equation. Their particular power resides in the fact that they deal with the most intimate aspects of our identities as individuals and enable human dignity, which is dependent on control of our bodies, desires and aspirations.

- Babatunde Osotimehin

topic: Rights, Desire, Identity, Indivisible, Reproductive Health

Every era in history has needed, and will need, reproductive health services.

- Lizz Winstead

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Needs, Eras, Needed, Reproductive Health, Health Services

We cannot confront the massive challenges of poverty, hunger, disease and environmental destruction unless we address issues of population and reproductive health

- Thoraya Obaid

topic: Issues, Challenges, Environmental, Environmental Destruction, Reproductive Health

There is one lesson from the past, in particular, that we cannot afford to ignore: You cannot make progress on gender equality or broader human development, without safeguarding women's reproductive health and rights.

- Hillary Clinton

source: "Hillary Clinton preaches 'social gospel' not politics in latest speech". Hillary Clinton's address to a group of over 7,000 women about spiritual and social issues at United Methodist Women's Assembly in Kentucky, www.theglobaldispatch.com. April 28, 2014.

topic: Leadership, Wisdom, Past, Reproductive Health, Human Development

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

This is about respect for women, the judgments that women make and their doctors about their reproductive health. It's an important part of who women are, their reproductive health.

- Barack Obama

topic: Doctors, Important, Judgment, Reproductive Health

If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.

- Mark Twain

topic: Children, Men, Population, Reproductive Health

Women should not need a permission slip from government to take care of their own reproductive health.

- Nina Turner

topic: Government, Needs, Care, Reproductive Health

I am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all. Please join me in supporting Planned Parenthood's vital work to protect access to reproductive health care and real sex education worldwide.

- Kathleen Turner

topic: Sex, Real, Care, Planned Parenthood, Reproductive Health

Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.

- Ann Richards

topic: Numbers, Needs, Causes, Reproductive Health

Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: War, Issues, Population, Famine, Population Explosion

Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.

- Isaac Asimov

topic: Democracy, Politics, Overpopulation, Human Dignity, World Population

I have personally been affected by women's reproductive health issues, and I will continue to support that cause and spread awareness about it.

- Bethany Cosentino

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Issues, Support, Causes, Reproductive Health, Health Issues

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

- Arnold J. Toynbee

topic: Animal, Rabbits, Environment, Overpopulation, World Population

At Planned Parenthood, we see the impact of abortion stigma firsthand, in the women who delay getting reproductive health care because they fear they’ll be labeled and judged. We see the effect of stigma on doctors, health center staffers, and others who help provide abortion services. And we see the impact in laws that regulate and restrict abortion in ways that would never happen with any other medical procedure.

- Cecile Richards

source: "Ending the Silence That Fuels Abortion Stigma" by Cecile Richards, www.elle.com. October 16, 2014.

topic: Impact, Doctors, Law, Medical Procedures, Reproductive Health

The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation-must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

source: Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.42, Best Books on

topic: Men, Population Problem, Decision, Overpopulation, World Population

Beyond the immediate risks to her health and the health of her baby, when a woman chooses c-section, she decreases the chance that she will be able to get pregnant again and increases the chance that if she does get pregnant, the pregnancy will occur outside the uterus, a situation that never results in a live baby and is life-threatening to the woman. Furthermore, the risk of having an unexplained stillbirth doubles when a woman has had a previous c-section.

- Marsden Wagner

topic: Baby, Pregnancy, Risk, Stillbirth, Uterus

I'm not advocating for no guns. I like mine and am not about to give them up. But in this country, my uterus is more regulated than my guns. Birth control and reproductive health services are harder to get than bullets. What is that about? Guns don't kill people - vaginas do?

- Shannyn Moore

source: "My Guns Are Less Regulated Than My Uterus" by Shannyn Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2012.

topic: Country, Gun, Giving, Uterus, Reproductive Health

Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women's voices regarding their own health care.

- Sandra Fluke

source: "Sandra Fluke: Slurs won't silence women" by Sandra Fluke, www.cnn.com. March 14, 2012.

topic: Meaningful, Voice, Silence, Flukes, Reproductive Health

When we conducted focus group interviews in the first municipality in Brazil before initiating the pilot project, a woman commented: Getting an appointment in the public sector municipal health services is like "winning the lottery." I would like to make it possible for many women and men in Latin America to win the lottery and receive the type of reproductive health services they so urgently need.

- Ruth Simmons

source: Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

topic: Municipality, Winning The Lottery, Focus Groups, Public Sector, Reproductive Health

In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9% per year. If it continued at this rate, with the population doubling every 40 years, by 2600 we would all be standing literally shoulder to shoulder.

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Years, Lasts, Population, Overpopulation, World Population

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

High level policy makers and program managers do not normally listen to the voices of local people, local providers and local program managers when they make decisions about contraceptive introduction or other aspects of program development in reproductive health.

- Ruth Simmons

source: Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

topic: Policy Makers, Contraceptives, Reproductive Health

If instead policy makers and program managers participate in an interdisciplinary assessment team, make informal visits to local families and have in-depth conversations with local providers and health authorities, the real needs and complex challenges of organizing good reproductive health services become apparent.The first country that implemented this participatory program of assessment, research and policy development was Brazil. I was one of the outsiders who provided support to the initiative.

- Ruth Simmons

source: Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

topic: Country, Real, Team, Interdisciplinary, Policy Makers

Planned Parenthood's entire existence is basically based on keeping people in the dark through euphemism. You don't call it genocide, you call it reproductive health. So that's why Planned Parenthood has - nobody really thought.

- Greg Gutfeld

source: Source: www.foxnews.com

topic: Dark, People, Parenthood, Planned Parenthood, Reproductive Health

I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, and I will continue to protect womens access to contraceptives and reproductive health care.

- Dan Maffei

topic: Law, Decision, Care, Contraceptives, Reproductive Health

We also need to make sure women can be in charge of their reproductive health. We can't defund places like Planned Parenthood, where women can go for all kinds of healthcare services. While reproductive rights span much further than the pro-life/pro-choice debate, Donald Trump has actually said he wants to "punish" women for having abortions. And Mike Pence is quite possibly the most anti-choice vice presidential candidate in history.

- Chrissy Teigen

source: "Chrissy Teigen Thinks Ivanka Trump 'Should Probably Run for Office One Day'". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. September 8, 2016.

topic: Rights, Choices, Pro Life, Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights

Our practical purpose is to facilitate expansion of service innovations on a larger scale to improve access to, and the quality of reproductive health care. We are very grateful to have received support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to continue our work.

- Ruth Simmons

source: Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

topic: Reproductive Health

If policy makers and program managers participate in an interdisciplinary assessment team, make informal visits to local families and have in-depth conversations with local providers and health authorities, the real needs and complex challenges of organizing good reproductive health services become apparent.

- Ruth Simmons

source: Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

topic: Interdisciplinary, Policy Makers, Reproductive Health, Health Services

I personally think that people should get the book because it is like a blueprint. It shows you the work that needs to be done if we're ever going to get economic equality, health, reproductive health, violence. I mean, it's every category.

- Eleanor Smeal

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

topic: Economic Equality, Reproductive Health

Iran's experience shows that when religious scholars and UNFPA work together to solve reproductive health issues, there can be excellent results.

- Hossein Malek-Afzali

topic: Religious, Issues, Iran, Reproductive Health, Health Issues

The world today has 6.8 billion people...that's headed up to about 9 billion. If we do a really great job on vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 to 15 percent.

- Bill Gates

topic: Depopulation, Reproductive Health, Health Services

Ironically, as some people become harder, they use softer words to describe dark deeds. This, too, is part of being sedated by secularism. Needless abortion, for instance, is a "reproductive health procedure, . . ." "Illegitimacy" gives way to the wholly sanitized words "non-marital birth" or "alternative parenting."

- Neal A. Maxwell

topic: Dark, People, Giving, Reproductive Health

Yes, we've cut the maternal mortality rate in half, but far too many women are still denied critical access to reproductive health care and safe childbirth, and laws don't count for much if they're not enforced. Rights have to exist in practice - not just on paper. Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Religious, Cutting, Rights, Religious Belief, Reproductive Health

From the woman who musters the courage to ask her husband to wear a condom, counter to cultural pressures, to the woman in Parliament who demands access to affordable reproductive health services for women who need them most, daring knows no scale or status.

- Purnima Mane

source: "Women Are Daring, Will You Join Them?" by Purnima Mane, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2013.

topic: Husband, Demand, Pressure, Muster, Reproductive Health

I would like to make it possible for many women and men in Latin America to win the lottery and receive the type of reproductive health services they so urgently need.

- Ruth Simmons

source: Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

topic: Latin, Winning, Men, Reproductive Health, Health Services

Not since before Roe v. Wade has a law or court decision had the potential to devastate access to reproductive health care on such a sweeping scale.

- Nancy Northup

topic: Law, Decision, Wade, Court Decision, Reproductive Health