Venezuela: Maduro urges women to have ‘six children’

BOGOTA, Colombia

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro urged women to have a lot of children in a televised event promoting a national women's health care plan. 

"Start giving birth now, start giving birth. All women should have six children so the country grows," Maduro said Tuesday while he complimented a woman who has six children. The National Plan for Humanized Childbirth and Breastfeeding would provide heath care to every pregnant and breastfeeding woman. "Every woman should have six children for the good of the country.”

Maduro's words provoked controversy in Venezuela where pregnant women are often left unprotected without access to