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Maternal Health Quotes

This collection holds 15 maternal health quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Christy Turlington, Nicholas Kristof and Isabella Lovin.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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Isabella Lovin

Improved maternal health benefits the whole of society.

Nicholas D. Kristof / Journalist

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health

Nicholas Kristof

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.

Jaime Harrison

South Carolina's lack of access to quality maternal health care is pervasive.

Liya Kebede / Model

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

Harry A. Blackmun / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States

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

Jessica Capshaw / Actress

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

Patrisse Cullors

In order to reverse the maternal health crisis for black women in the U.S., we need concrete policies from our leaders and better protocols from hospitals.

Hillary Clinton / Former United States Secretary Of State

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

Christy Turlington / Fashion Model

I have healed myself through sharing my birth story as well as others' stories in my film 'No Woman, No Cry,' and in various writings and talks about maternal health.

Jacqueline Novogratz / Entrepreneur

In the case of maternal health care, you look at, well naturally, it's the mother who's the customer, who makes the decisions. But in truth, the mother in many areas, in certain parts of India, the mother has very little decision-making power at all. The real decision-maker is the mother-in-law.

Nicholas Kristof

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.

Christy Turlington / Fashion Model

In the world of maternal health, cell phone technology is being used to provide prenatal care, linking pregnant women to health care providers when they can't otherwise reach healthcare facilities.

Christy Turlington / Fashion Model

As a Global Maternal Health Advocate, I get to travel the world quite a bit, meeting individuals and visiting programs with tremendous potential and incredible vision to improve the quality of life for countless others.

Christy Turlington / Fashion Model

Every Mother Counts is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making pregnancy and childbirth safe for every mother. We inform, engage, and mobilize audiences to take action and raise funds that support maternal health programs around the world.

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