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If you're going to plan a wedding, then a certain amount of suffering is not a choice.

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family.

There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that's the nature of being human and wanting stuff we don't always get.

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

You don't want people to suffer or get fat when they're pregnant.

To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.

It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.