Sumita Metha Quotes

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

Margaret Sanger didn't just introduce the idea of birth control into our culture at large, she freed women from indenture to their bodies.

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

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.

In order to stabilize human population growth, we must prioritize the education of girls, the empowerment of women, the provision of ubiquitous access to the knowledge and techniques of fertility management, and the continued raising of child survival rates.

It is not because woman is lacking in responsibility, but because she has too much of the latter that she demands to know how to prevent conception.

… 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.

We support reproductive rights and will stand with women and men around the country to support keeping abortion and birth control safe, legal and accessible.

When contraceptive services are not available to women throughout the world, abortion rates increase.

Birth control...is demeaning to women, degrading of human sexuality, and averse to human health and happiness.

Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she must take to be man’s equal. It is the first step they must both take toward human emancipation.

In America, access to birth control is controlled by those who never use it.

Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision makers.

One out of three American women will need or chose an abortion at some time in their lives. We have to make sure these are safe.

If you want to control human reproduction you have to control women’s bodies.

Woman must have her freedom; the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she shall be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers; and before it can be his, it is hers alone.

With the development of the [birth control] pill, “womanhood” would no longer mean the same thing as “motherhood”.

For women, access to reproductive health care isn't a political issue.

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

The methods used to take human lives, such as abortion, the pill, the ring, etc., amounts to genocide. I believe that legal abortion is legal murder.

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.

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

For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.

We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent unintended pregnancy. We believe that a woman considering an abortion should not be forced to have an ultrasound against her will.

We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.