Lesson six tells us that if we really want to put women's health on the national agenda and keep it there-we must support everyday heroines. More than any other, this is perhaps the one lesson that those of us in government or the health professions cannot afford to forget. In the 1970's, women protested on the steps of our Capitol building demanding hearings on the safety of the birth control pill. Thanks to their tenacity-they got people to listen. And today we have a National Women's Health Information Center.
Women can contact it by phone and over the Internet with their health care questions.
We don't know all the answers-but we're going to get them. And, most important, we're listening. Taken together, these six lessons will help keep women's health on the national agenda, and in the national spotlight-in every country. Madame Prime Minister, our two countries share many things. Madame Prime Minister, distinguished guests, whenever I think of your country, I always recall a land of great seismic beauty-from geysers to glacial mountains.