Geeta Phogat Quotes

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.

By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

No country has reduced its population growth without resorting to abortion.... Indeed, abortion, legal and illegal, now has become the most widespread fertility control method in use in the world today...

I support population control. I think USA should do the same.

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.

We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I think that is the most ethical way to reduce our population.

World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not be if their mothers had access to cheap, reliable family planning, had enough personal empowerment to stand up to their husbands and relatives, and could choose their own family size.

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

The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.

Education of both men and women is a wonderful contraceptive.

I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.

Family planning is the only exit point of the land problem. No other solution is possible.

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply the population.

Africa needs birth control far less than it needs death control.

The great danger to my mind is Pakistan's inability to control its population. Of course, it's very difficult for the Muslims to have contraception, but if they put their mind to it, I think it's quite possible. It is only the radical Islamist man who actually opposes it, but there is a lot of evidence in Islamic thinking that you can actually have contraception, and prevent your population from breaking all bounds

We could also secure that the world's population should be stationary if we were not prevented by the political influence of churches which prefer war, pestilence, and famine to contraception.

The evidence is pretty strong: if you have access to family planning and birth control, the abortion rate is going to go down.

I only want three children for every family. I'm a Christian, but I'm a realist, so we have to do something with our overpopulation. I will defy the opinion or the belief of the Church.

You'll discover in countries where women have control over their own bodies, where they have education, where they have birth control, where they have facilities and where they are literate, when those things happen, the birth rate falls.

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.

I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer.

Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant, but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision-makers. When women have the power to make choices about their families, they tend to decide precisely what demographers, economists, and development experts recommend. They invest in the long-term human capital of their families.

Anyone who opposes methods to control the birth rate, is automatically voting in favour having the death rate go up.

I think I can allow myself one child - and from then on, I think I would have to adopt. It makes sense not to add to the population problem.

Not everyone has to have children. If everyone had two or three, we'd run out of room.