#maternity

And under Obamacare, insurance companies can no longer discriminate against women. Before, some wouldn't cover women's most basic needs, like contraception and maternity care, but would still charge us up to 50 percent more than men - for a worse plan. ↗

— Kathleen Sebelius

#basic #basic needs #before #care #charge

The point of launching a maternity line, for me, was to do something different. ↗

— Jessica Simpson

#launching #line #maternity #me #point

And in the future, you know, maybe there's kids in the future for me, I don't really know. The interesting thing with me is that there has never been a woman doing what I'm doing at this level for this long. So, it's like, would Vince give me maternity leave? ↗

— Trish Stratus

#doing #future #give #give me #i

As indicated by the increase in maternal mortality in 2010, right now it's more dangerous to give birth in California than in Kuwait or Bosnia. Amnesty International reports that women in [the United States] have a higher risk of dying due to pregnancy complications than women in forty-nine other countries (black women are almost four times as likely to die as white women). The United States spends more than any other country on maternal health care, yet our risk of dying or coming close to death during pregnancy or in childbirth remains unreasonably high. ↗

— Jessica Valenti

#maternity-care #pregnancy #death

Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#abortion #compulsory #form #maternity #right

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#been #companion #dinner #done #go

I used to forget that I was an Indian woman. I would even forget that I was a woman. I don't think of myself as bringing to the table a lot of 'women's issues.' I don't feel the need to write about maternity. I grew up thinking that the talented people in comedy were hard-joke writers. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#bringing #comedy #even #feel #forget

I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it. ↗

— Ben Lindsey

#come #conversation #cosmic #demand #i

Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are. ↗

— Ina May Gaskin

#maternity-care #nature #technology #nature

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits. ↗

— Dale Dauten

#benefits #birth #bureaucracy #expects #gives