Birch Bayh Quotes
How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born.
Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault
Poverty affect many more females than males. The individual decisions or lack thereof that can cause poverty in a family are much more frequently made by men with females having little or no say in many cultures. The politicians and powerful people who control many societies and could make the system changes needed to reduce poverty are mostly men.
He was pushing the idea of getting the poor and destitute of England to go to the American colonies where a labor force was needed. “Fry” was a term for offspring — children.
He, like so many Americans were shocked at the statistics on the relationship between earnings and infant mortality which does not exist in other industrial democracies.
Birch Evans Bayh Jr. was an American Democratic Party politician who served as U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1963 to 1981. He was first elected to office in 1954, when he won election to the Indiana House of Representatives; in 1958, he was elected Speaker, the youngest person to hold that office in the state's history. In 1962, he ran for the U.S. Senate, narrowly defeating incumbent Republican Homer E. Capehart. Shortly after entering the Senate, he became Chairman of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments, and in that role authored two constitutional amendments: the twenty-fifth—which establishes procedures for an orderly transition of power in the case of the death, disability, or resignation of the President of the United States—and the twenty-sixth, which lowered the voting age to 18 throughout the United States. He is the only non–Founding Father to have authored two constitutional amendments. Bayh also led unsuccessful efforts to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment and eliminate the Electoral College.
