Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.

Simply because we have reduced the general fund dollars to family planning, I think we have done very well.

How we have provided family planning services in some ways has been creative.

When the poor know that their children will survive, when they educate their daughters, when they access family planning, they have fewer children.

Expanding eligibility of family planning services to low-income women will maximize cost-savings to both federal and state governments, reduce the disparities in access to family planning services for low-income women, and decrease the incidence of abortion in the U.S.

Years ago we taught 'family planning' under the table but now we're right out in the open.