Maternal Health Quotes

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

  Jessica Capshaw

  Challenges, World, Minutes

  "'Grey's Anatomy' star Jessica Capshaw puts spotlight on global maternal health care needs" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. May 11, 2012.

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• I KNOW THAT I CAN'T SOLVE ALL THE MATERNAL HEALTH CHALLENGES IN THE WORLD BY MYSELF. I NEED AND WANT OTHERS TO JOIN ME.

  Christy Turlington

  Challenges, Needs, World

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

  Hillary Clinton

  Safety, Abortion, Planning

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• As indicated by the increase in maternal mortality in 2010, right now it's more dangerous to give birth in California than in Kuwait or Bosnia. Amnesty International reports that women in [the United States] have a higher risk of dying due to pregnancy complications than women in forty-nine other countries (black women are almost four times as likely to die as white women). The United States spends more than any other country on maternal health care, yet our risk of dying or coming close to death during pregnancy or in childbirth remains unreasonably high.

  Jessica Valenti

  Country, Pregnancy, White

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• Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Left, Focused

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• The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Pregnancy, Abortion Laws, Feminist

  "Thornburgh vs. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists". "Abortion and Protection of the Human Fetus: Legal Problems in a Cross-Cultural Perspective". Book by George F. Cole and Stanisław Frankowski, 1987.

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• Decades from now, people will look back and wonder how societies could have acquiesced in a sex slave trade in the twenty-first century that is... bigger than the transatlantic slave trade was in the nineteenth. They will be perplexed that we shrugged as a lack of investment in maternal health caused half a million women to perish in childbirth each year.

  Sheryl WuDunn

  Sex, Years, People

  Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2010). “Half The Sky: How to Change the World”, p.243, Hachette UK

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• The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Cutting, President, Literature

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• President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding.

  Liya Kebede

  Priorities, President, Aids

  "Mother’s Day Mission: Help Reduce Maternal Mortality in the Developing World" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2010.

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