Natural Family Planning works and is as effective, and sometimes more effective, than the birth control methods out there.
A girl child who is even a little bit educated is more conscious of family planning, health care and, in turn, her children's own education.
The evidence is pretty strong: if you have access to family planning and birth control, the abortion rate is going to go down.
There are fewer unwanted pregnancies and fewer occasions where a woman is confronted with that decision if she has access to family planning and birth control. That's why I support Planned Parenthood; that's why I support Title X.
Most of Planned Parenthood's work focuses on health care for low-income women: things like screenings for breast cancer and diabetes, and family planning.
From China and India to Turkey and Brazil, when women have gotten access to education, to family planning and to a vital place in the economy, greater prosperity has followed. And when women are free to speak and learn, they temper the extremes of ideology and fanaticism and raise sons who are less likely to become human bombs.
The work I do when I'm not making music is very much about service, helping women give birth or aiding in family planning.
World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not be if their mothers had access to cheap, reliable family planning, had enough personal empowerment to stand up to their husbands and relatives, and could choose their own family size.
Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although among the poorest peoples of the world, have brought their fertility rate down to 2.4, partly by social coercion, but mostly by broadly available education, health care and family planning.
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
