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All Women, Everywhere, Have The Same Hopes: We Want To Be Self-sufficient And Create Better Lives For Ourselves And Our Loved Ones.

If You Can't Go To Secondary School, The Boys Get To Go And The Girls Don't, You're Locked Into A Cycle Of Poverty, Because You Don't Have A Chance.

If We Don't Empower Women, We Don't Allow Them To Unlock The Potential Of Themselves And Their Children.

If We're Going To Make Progress On This Issue [of Contraception], We Have To Be Really Clear About What Our Agenda Is. We're Not Talking About Abortion. We're Not Talking About Population Control. What I'm Talking About Is Giving Women The Power To Save Their Lives, To Save Their Children's Lives And To Give Their Families The Best Possible Future.

The Fact That 98 Percent Of Women In [the U.s.] Who Are Sexually Experienced Say They Use Birth Control Doesn't Make Sex Any Less Sacred. It Just Means That They're Getting To Make Choices About Their Lives.