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While the political debate over abortion will continue for a very long time, the federal government can and should be doing more to support programs and services that provide women with better options.

People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.

Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.

The public likes to think that women only care about contraception.

Men want children later, but women can't rely on being able to. So I'm all for scientific advances and the help they can give people.

If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child; therefore, take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54,' then it's another story.

Listen, I had two kids - one when I was 40, one when I was 45. I breastfed for one year, which means I was breastfeeding four years ago. I'm going to move from giving birth to menopause without really realising.

Just as I wouldn't expect a gynecologist to have a debate with somebody who believes in the Stork-theory of reproduction, I won't do debates with Young Earth creationists.

Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.