Melinda Gates Quotes

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

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

I'll protect and expand access to no-copay birth control and safe, legal abortion.

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

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

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

The U. S. Agency for International Development has found that in every nation where information about contraception and access to methods of birth control are available, abortion rates decline

We’ve come a long way from more than a century ago when contraception was illegal, to today when—for the first time—all women may have access to free Birth Control…. It’s a personal choice, whether or not to use methods like “the pill.” But it’s to society’s great benefit to make sure every woman has this option.

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

Contraception has to be available for anybody who needs it.

I've been supporting Planned Parenthood all my life. I've even used it myself, back when I had no money. It's where I got my birth control. During college, every one of us got support from them.

Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race.

It is clear that Americans have a right to birth control.

It is common sense that when women are able to plan their pregnancies, populations grow more slowly and as a result so do greenhouse gas emissions. Providing access to contraception and preventative health should be one of the many effective strategies used to fight climate change.

If you want to prevent abortions, you make sure everyone has health care, a high school education and birth control. Not the exact opposite.

Contraception really shouldn't be all that controversial because it's a tool a woman can use to delay her first birth until she's, say, 18 or 19 years old.

Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.

Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own.

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.

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.

Do you honestly think that if Senator Santorum becomes president, we're going to get rid of contraceptives?

Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.

Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.

Empowering women by allowing them to choose when and how many children to have is not only the right thing to do, it is the smart thing to do.

Restricting access to such a basic health care service, which 99% of sexually experienced American women have used and 62% of American women are using right now, is out of touch with public sentiment.