Nicholas Kristof Quotes

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

Abortion has an important and positive public health effect.

When the health of a woman is involved I think the government has to be respectful.

Access to maternal healthcare is a human right.

South Carolina's lack of access to quality maternal health care is pervasive.

Improved maternal health benefits the whole of society.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I was lucky to be under the care of trained health care personnel. I started wondering then what was happening to women in rural villages.

Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

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.

The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.

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

I quote the following statement which I saw the other day: "We have lost in all the wars waged in this country since the Declaration of Independence, 244,000 men, killed in battle, and in the past twenty-five years we have lost 375,000 mothers in child birth." Prenatal care in the early months is vitally important and we should do all we can to educate young mothers to go to a doctor if they can afford it, if not to a free clinic to be taught how care for themselves. This is necessary not only for mothers but the babies. With proper care before birth, a child will come into world stronger and healthier.

I could foresee some terrific political and legal battles if women find out they have Zika in the later terms of their pregnancy.

The mission of HHS is to enhance the health and well-being of all Americans, and this includes the unborn.

Every woman, whoever she is, wherever she lives, should be able to give birth without the fear she's going to lose her baby or that her baby will lose her mother.

I taught woman-centered childbirth classes for five years and have a particular interest in the history of childbirth practices.