Quotes and Sayings About Birth Control
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I prefer the earlier birth control techniques, which ranged from the delicious (using honey as a spermicide) to the aerobic (jumping backward seven times after coitus).
-- A. J. Jacobs -
... I saw a small boy who belongs to one of those large families who only practice at birth control.
-- Anne EllisSource : Anne Ellis (1997). “Plain Anne Ellis: More about the Life of an Ordinary Woman”, p.31, U of Nebraska Press
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Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.
-- Aristotle -
Have you noticed that all the people in favor of birth control are already born?
-- Benny Hill -
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Did you ever notice that everyone in favour of birth control has already been born ?
-- Benny Hill -
I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.
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Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.
-- Camille PagliaSource : Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.38, Vintage
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Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.
-- Cecile RichardsSource : "Cecile Richards DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.
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It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola.
-- Clare Short -
Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.
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Medications can lower a woman's sex drive and interfere with a woman's ability to climax. These medications include antidepressants, birth control pills and hormone medications. I only know of three antidepressants that do not interfere with a woman's sexual function.
-- Drew PinskySource : "Dissatisfied, ladies? Tips to reach the Big O". TODAY interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.
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Sex Ed - when I finally got to take it - was all about biology and birth control and nothing about anything that actually goes on between people.
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Anybody who's against birth control and abortion has to be a criminal idiot.
-- Eleanor ClarkSource : Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins
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If one is willing to have children, rhythm is probably the best method of contraception.
-- Elizabeth HawesSource : Elizabeth Hawes (1948). “Anything But Love: A Complete Digest of the Rules of Feminine Behavior from Birth to Death ...”
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If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect.
-- Faye Wattleton -
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[On being asked if she would favor birth control laws:] I will if you make it retroactive.
-- Florence Prag Kahn -
Birth Control and abortion are turning out to be the great eugenic advances of our time.
-- Frederick Osborn -
The most important eugenic policy at this time is to see that birth control is made equally available to all individuals in every class of society
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The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt -
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When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.
-- H. G. Wells -
[W]e declare it is a grievous sin before God to adopt restrictive measures in disobedience to God's divine command from the beginning of time to 'multiply and replenish the earth.' Surely those who project such measures to prevent life or to destroy life before or after birth will reap the whirlwind of God's retribution, for God will not be mocked.
-- Harold B. Lee -
I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.
-- Harri Holkeri -
Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
-- Havelock Ellis -
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The Church has always advised against birth control and that is the only position the Church can take in view of our beliefs with respect to the eternity of the marriage covenant and the purpose of this divine relationship.
-- Hugh B. Brown -
The problem of birth control and voluntary barrenness is poisoning the very fountains of life and defying God's injunction to multiply and replenish the earth.
-- Hugh B. Brown -
The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
-- Indira GandhiSource : Indira Gandhi, Som Benegal (1976). “Freedom is the starting point: a collection of memorable words”
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Without liberals we wouldn't have unions. We wouldn't have environmental protections. We wouldn't have seat belts or birth control or the ACLU! Any of these things!
-- Janeane Garofalo -
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He squinted at me. "What are you wearing? Is that some new form of birth control?
-- Janet Evanovich -
We're more effective than birth control pills.
-- Johnny Carson