“Real Texans don't want any woman to die of cancer because she can't get decent health care or medical advice. Real Texans don't want any woman to lose control of her life because she can't get birth control.” WantRealCareDiesLosesAdviceBirthCancerMedicalHealth CareDecentBirth ControlTexan Author:Wendy Davis
“The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.” NeedsHomeCareRunningIndividualCan DoBirthHealth CareSectionsHealth Care SystemHome BirthCesarean Author:Ina May Gaskin
“The Cairo conferenceis about a complicated web of education and employment, consumption and poverty, development and health care. It is also about whether governments will follow where women have so clearly led them, toward safe, simple and reliable choices in family planning. While Cairo crackles with conflict, in the homes of the world the orthodoxies have been duly heard, and roundly ignored.” WorldHas BeensHomeGovernmentCareChoicesSimplePovertyHeardDevelopmentBirthSafeConflictInstitutionsComplicatedPlanningEmploymentHealth CareRebellionConsumptionIgnoredOrthodoxyBirth ControlFamily PlanningCairo Author:Anna Quindlen
“The reason that I proposed health savings accounts for everybody starting at birth, is because you very quickly accumulate an amount of money that you can use for your interactions with those health care providers.” ReasonUseCareAmountBirthAccountsStartingSavingHealth CareInteractionSavingsProvidersSavings Accounts Author:Benjamin Carson
“I think what hinders the argument is when people are afraid of hurting the feelings of racists and people who are genuinely - some of them - out of their minds. They demand to see Obama's birth certificate. They claim that he wants to kill our grandparents with his health care. They want to be able to carry their guns into every public place. Why do we need to coddle these people?” PeopleThinkingMindFeelingsCareHurtBirthGunArgumentHealth CareRacistGrandparentHinder Author:Janeane Garofalo
“When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I was lucky to be under the care of trained health care personnel. I started wondering then what was happening to women in rural villages.” ChildrenCareLostWonderBirthLuckyHappeningsHealth CarePostsVillageFourthPersonnel Author:Joyce Banda
“President Obama is also standing up for women in North Carolina and across our country. He has helped women fight for equal pay for equal work; he has fought to guarantee that women have access to quality, affordable health care, including making sure that insurance plans cover birth control with no out-of-pocket cost.” CountryCareFightingPresidentPayQualityPlansBirthCostEqualStandingIncludingAccessOur CountryHealth CareGuaranteesPocketsPresident ObamaAffordableCarolinaBirth ControlGuarantees ThatNorth CarolinaEqual PayAffordable Health Care Author:Bev Perdue