Safe Motherhood 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

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

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 a country [India] where every five minutes a pregnant woman dies, the pill could be the answer.

Family planning, birth control, no Muslim family can practice such an understanding.

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

Governments must act and private citizens cooperate urgently through voluntary means to secure this right [of birth control programs] for all people. Failure would limit the expectation of future generations to abject poverty and suffering and bring down upon us history's condemnation.

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

… 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.

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

A woman’s ability to decide whether and when to have a child is not a social issue—it is a human right. It is the biggest indicator of whether she is educated or not, can work outside the home or not, is healthy or not, and how long she lives.

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.

Access to maternal healthcare is a human right.

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

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

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

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