Nicholas Kristof Quotes

Improved maternal health benefits the whole of society.

President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding.

Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute.

Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.

Access to maternal healthcare is a human right.

Every second minute, a woman or a girl dies in the world due to pregnancy.

We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.

These same people who accuse Planned Parenthood of 'targeting' African-American children, they care about you only while you're in the womb. The minute you crown, you're on your own.

Dying in childbirth is something that's not new; it's been going on for ages, and so it's not something that people focus on; it's not something that gets funded a lot, and it's exactly for that reason that we are losing mothers all the time, and we have kids with no mothers.

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.

I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.

Adults worldwide can today look forward to a life-expectancy of 60 plus. But not young Pakistani women: they die like flies, daily, during childbirth...

Women's health is one of WHO's highest priorities.

The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding.

The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

While the political debate over abortion will continue for a very long time, the federal government can and should be doing more to support programs and services that provide women with better options.

No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.

Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.

Abortion is now safer for a woman than childbirth.

If we want to help pregnant women, let's make sure that each pregnancy is a wanted pregnancy.

It is terrible to reduce such an important social issue to this, but the truth is that prenatal care delivery and the first year of life on welfare costs taxpayers $4,000 a year compared with $250 for an abortion.

… the lack of access to basic family planning services and information undermines a woman’s ability to determine her own destiny. It also increases illness and mortality rates of women and their children, and inhibits the ability of families to climb out of poverty.

Give special attention to the mothers' health, to see that women who are suffering from tuberculosis, heart or kidney disease, toxic goitre, gonorrhea, or any disease where the condition of pregnancy disturbs their health are placed under public health nurses to instruct them in practical, scientific methods of contraception in order to safeguard their lives---thus reducing maternal mortality