Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute. — Jessica Capshaw Copy Share Image
The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies. — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
Decades from now, people will look back and wonder how societies could have acquiesced in a sex slave trade in the twenty-first… — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
“The equivalent of five jumbo jets’ worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered. The… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
South Carolina's lack of access to quality maternal health care is pervasive. — Jaime Harrison Copy Share Image
President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding. — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
In order to reverse the maternal health crisis for black women in the U.S., we need concrete policies from our leaders and… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
We must all work together if we're going to solve the nation's maternal health crisis, and Democrats and Republicans agree that helping… — Raphael Warnock Copy Share Image
I KNOW THAT I CAN'T SOLVE ALL THE MATERNAL HEALTH CHALLENGES IN THE WORLD BY MYSELF. I NEED AND WANT OTHERS TO… — Christy Turlington Copy Share Image
“But as long as I know how important maternal health is to Haiti’s future, and as long as I know that women… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
“One target of the fifth UN Millennium Development Goal (UNMDG) to improve maternal health, is to reduce maternal mortality by three-quarters by 2015.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“One needn't identify as a feminist to participate in the redemptive movement of God for women in the world, The gospel is… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
I've been a social justice advocate all my life, becoming an activist for women and human rights even in high school, and… — Julie Smolyansky Copy Share Image
In the case of maternal health care, you look at, well naturally, it's the mother who's the customer, who makes the decisions.… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
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… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
In order to improve maternal health, we have to focus on improving all women's health and access to care - not just… — Leana S. Wen Copy Share Image
As indicated by the increase in maternal mortality in 2010, right now it's more dangerous to give birth in California than in… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
