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

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.

When these voters are introduced to Gov. George W. Bush's positions on family planning and abortion, they move solidly against him, ... George Bush sees compassionate conservatives as his strength. We believe they are his Achilles' heel.

One reason I continue to oppose efforts to criminalize abortion is that I do not believe any government should have the power to dictate, through law or police action, a woman's most personal decisions."

"I consider that a slippery slope to state control of reproduction, and I'd witnessed the consequences of such control in China and Communist Romania.

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.