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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.

I'm happy we have three healthy children and we'll stay with three healthy children.

Even in decision-making, we work in self-help groups. That is women coming together in small groups of 10 to sometimes 15 women, where they start to get education about their rights, about clean water and sanitation, about how to have a healthy birth. You can bring in all kinds of education to them that way.

I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.

Childbearing, I mean, if there's no place to go to deliver your baby, then you're the one that's delivering in those unhealthy circumstances. Or if you can't get access to family planning, your chances of surviving and being able to bring your kids up if they come one right after the other, that locks you into a cycle of poverty.

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.