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For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity. |
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Ask any woman and she'll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive years, women spend 68% more on health care than men do.- Rod Blagojevich
In addition, I will be attending women's health expos and medical conferences with the goal to promote dialogue between women and their health-care providers.
I do not see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we have been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women.
The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb.
When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.
