Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little.

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

Guilt-tripping people does not work; they tend to be turned off.

I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight

The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible.