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Improved maternal health benefits the whole of society.

— Isabella Lovin

“Harvard’s Ichiro Kawachi agrees. He identifies a range of social policies that would be vital to promoting greater socioeconomic equality—and hence, better health. “Make…

— Jeremy A. Smith

We have an opportunity to focus global attention on what should be obvious: every mother, and every child, counts. They count because we value…

— Lee Jong-wook

Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations as all other earthly causes combined.

— John Stevens Cabot Abbott

The message of our campaign is "Make every mother and child count". This campaign is not just about health. It is also a powerful…

— Liya Kebede

What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every bit as…

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

We need to do everything we can to protect the health and welfare of children around the world, but fortunately, it's getting easier to…

— Alek Wek

When new moms and dads can better support their families and give our youngest Americans the healthiest, most loving start to life, we all…

— Michelle Wu

We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.

— Max Born

Family is so important and as a country we must allow for parents to spend time with their babies because providing parents the ability…

— Colin Allred

Each and every child in this country is valuable because they are our future as a society. We cannot afford to lose a single…

— John F. Kerry

Some of the best indicators of a country developing along the right lines are healthy mothers giving birth to healthy children who are assured…

— Aung San Suu Kyi