Able Quote by Kavita Ramdas

The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health…

— Felicity Huffman

The reduction in a number of pregnancies is - compensates for the cost of contraception. ... Providing contraception as a critical preventive health benefit…

— Kathleen Sebelius

We know that the way to decrease unplanned pregnancies and abortions is to make birth control and family planning services accessible and affordable, not…

— Jeanne Shaheen

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

— Melinda Gates

Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations…

— B. F. Skinner

The truth is that contraception saves lives, prevents unplanned pregnancies, improves outcomes for children and reduces the number of abortions.

— Ann McLane Kuster

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

— Louise Slaughter

Without the means to prevent, and to control the timing of, conception, economic and political rights have limited meaning for women. If women cannot…

— Alice S Rossi

“137 million women who want to space or limit their pregnancies use no contraception, usually because they have no access to family planning services;…

— Gabrielle Palmer

Natural Family Planning works and is as effective, and sometimes more effective, than the birth control methods out there.

— Abby Johnson

Creating a system that makes birth control accessible for everyone not only helps women plan for their futures, and lessen the risk of poverty…

— Ana Kasparian

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…

— Melinda Gates