Contraceptives Quotes:

Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1964). “Through Self-control”

topic: Women, Insult, Contraceptives

Hope is the best contraceptive.

- Marian Wright Edelman

topic: Birth Control, Birth, Contraceptives

Ugliness is nature's contraceptive.

- Gregory Benford

topic: Contraceptives, Ugliness

Now we just really need to do the work, which we're doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.

- Melinda Gates

source: Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

topic: Needs, Contraceptives

The best contraceptive in the world is a good education.

- Joycelyn Elders

topic: World, Sexuality, Good Education, Contraceptives

Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for abortion.

- Louise Slaughter

topic: Children, Pregnancy, Track, Reducing, Contraceptives

Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant, but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision-makers. When women have the power to make choices about their families, they tend to decide precisely what demographers, economists, and development experts recommend. They invest in the long-term human capital of their families.

- Melinda Gates

topic: Powerful, Long, Decision, Contraceptives, Reproductive Rights

Education of both men and women is a wonderful contraceptive.

- Henry W. Kendall

source: Henry W. Kendall (2013). “A Distant Light: Scientists and Public Policy”, p.233, Springer

topic: Men, Wonderful, Men And Women, Contraceptives

The greatest contraceptive one can have in the developing world is the knowledge that your children will live

- Julius Nyerere

topic: Children, Population, World, Contraceptives

The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would prevent teen pregnancies is ridiculous. That's like offering a cookbook as a cure to people who are trying to lose weight.

- Jerry Falwell

topic: Pregnancy, Offering, People, Cookbook, Contraceptives

Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil. In certain cases, as in this one, or in the one I mentioned of Blessed Paul VI, it was clear.

- Pope Francis

source: "Full text of Pope Francis' in-flight interview from Mexico to Rome". www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 18, 2016.

topic: Pregnancy, Blessed, Evil, Contraceptives

Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.

- Spike Milligan

topic: Funny, Crazy, Silly, Contraception, Contraceptives

The world would be a healthier place if oral contraceptives were available in every corner store and cigarettes were limited to prescription use.

- Malcolm Potts

topic: Would Be, Use, World, Contraceptives

... since birth control roots in a species of selfishness, the spiritual life of the user of contraceptives is also weakened. Women seem to become more masculine in thought and action; men more callous and reserved; both husband and wife become more careless of each other, and increasingly indifferent to the higher duties and joys of living.

- John Andreas Widtsoe

topic: Spiritual, Husband, Men, Contraceptives

The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently.

- Margaret Smith

topic: Naughty, Contraception, Contraceptives

When my Republican colleagues talk about family values, they mean that a woman should not be able to have the right to control her own body; that women should not be able to purchase the contraceptives that they want. Those are their family values, not our family values.

- Bernie Sanders

topic: Mean, Body, Want, Contraceptives

I went on the pill when I was 16, put on four stone... so that proved to be a very effective contraceptive.

- Jo Brand

topic: Pills, Four, Stones, Contraceptives

She asked me what type of contraceptive I use. Underwear. Keeping it on prevents pregnancy.

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Pregnancy, Underwear, Use, Contraceptives

My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1964). “Through Self-control”

topic: Women, Lying, Exercise, Contraceptives

Consistency is a contraceptive; it prevents the birth of new things!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Consistency, Birth, Contraceptives

When I look at 225 million women who want contraceptives, and then I look at the 52 million unintended pregnancies that could be avoided by addressing this unmet need, where can we have the biggest impact with our voice, our dollars, our partners? It's on contraceptives. I would rather address the problem upstream.

- Melinda Gates

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Pregnancy, Voice, Impact, Unmet Needs, Contraceptives

We like foreplay with God, but we make sure we have our spiritual contraceptives on! Cause we don't want to conceive nothing.

- Eddie Long

topic: Spiritual, Want, Causes, Contraceptives

We need to realize that a society in which contraceptives are widely used is going to have a very difficult time keeping free of abortions since the lifestyles and attitudes that contraception fosters create an alleged "need" for abortion.

- Janet E. Smith

topic: Attitude, Abortion, Catholic, Contraception, Contraceptives

Population control is not an issue involving contraceptives for third world women. It is an issue of ecological justice.

- Vandana Shiva

source: Source: scottlondon.com

topic: Issues, Justice, Population, Contraceptives, Population Control

I don't believe there is one woman within the confines of this state who does not believe in birth control. I never met one. That is, I never met one who thought that she should be kept in ignorance of contraceptive methods. Many I have met who valued the knowledge they possessed, but thought there were certain other classes who would be better kept in ignorance. The old would protect the young. The rich would keep the poor in ignorance. The good would keep their knowledge from the bad, the strong from the weak.

- Crystal Eastman

source: Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Strong, Believe, Ignorance, Contraceptives

Most recently, the President's reluctance to offend Senator Rick Santorum -- a Catholic theocrat who believes that states should have the power to arrest gay lovers in their bedrooms, or even to criminalize couples who use contraceptives -- was an occasion to wonder what, exactly, Mr. Bush was born-again into.

- Bill Keller

source: "God and George W. Bush". www.nytimes.com. May 17, 2003.

topic: Couple, Believe, Gay, Contraceptives, Reluctance

The persistent advocates of contraceptive-style sex education have become more and more resourceful in using taxpayer funds to impose their casual-sex attitudes and explicit-sex instruction on other people's children.

- Phyllis Schlafly

topic: Sex, Children, Attitude, Explicit, Resourceful

I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, and I will continue to protect womens access to contraceptives and reproductive health care.

- Dan Maffei

topic: Law, Decision, Care, Contraceptives, Reproductive Health

The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.

- Indira Gandhi

source: Indira Gandhi, Som Benegal (1976). “Freedom is the starting point: a collection of memorable words”

topic: Birth Control, Affluence, Birth, Contraceptives

I have been around conservatives my entire life. I have never met a single human being, in any place, who wanted to ban contraceptives.

- Ted Cruz

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Mets, Bans, Wanted, Contraceptives

There's an effort on the part of many people to attack women's rights, women's health, and the ability to control our own lives. No doubt about it. And it is not a majority of the country, in any way, shape, or form. I know on the contraceptive issue, 70 percent of the country agrees with me. Will that stop my opponents? No. Because they are so radical. They chip away and chip away.

- Barbara Boxer

source: Source: progressive.org

topic: Country, Issues, Rights, Women's Health, Contraceptives

If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I'm counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don't have access to the contraceptives they need?

- Melinda Gates

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Daughter, Believe, Son, Contraceptives

Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own.

- Louise Slaughter

topic: Low Income, Poor, Lows, Contraceptives, Supplies

In the United States, there's definitely some controversy about birth control in general, and I think we needed to split the debate and have people realize that we actually agree as a country about contraceptives. Over 93 percent of American women say they use contraceptives, and they feel very good about it.

- Melinda Gates

source: Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

topic: Country, Thinking, People, Contraceptives

As small, quick, foolproof cameras became generally available, moreover, the camera has been used so much and so flabbily by so many people that it has acted as a sort of contraceptive on the ability to see.

- James Agee

source: Helen Levitt, James Agee (1989). “A way of seeing”

topic: People, Cameras, Used, Contraceptives, Foolproof

Kids should be taught about sex, sex hygiene and contraceptive methods starting in the sixth grade, and whenever they want to try it, they should be allowed to go at it without supervision or restriction -in their parents' bedroom, on the grass in a park, in a motel; it doesn't matter, as long as the setting is private and pleasant. If we did all this, our kids would grow up into happier, healthier human beings. But we won't, of course. It would make too much sense.

- Madalyn Murray O'Hair

topic: Sex, Growing Up, Kids, Sixth Grade, Motels

I don't believe that bureaucrats in Washington should tell someone whether they can use contraceptives or not. And I don't believe employers should tell someone whether they could have contraceptive care of not. Every woman in America should have access to contraceptives.

- Mitt Romney

source: Source: www.politico.com

topic: Believe, Should Have, America, Contraceptives

Fundamentalism is rigorously and systematically used to indoctrinate and subjugate young minds. It is a contraceptive designed to prevent intellectual fertilization.

- Stephen Jay Gould

topic: Intellectual, Mind, Used, Fertilization, Contraceptives

The birth control pill, to a great degree, made possible the (hetero)sexual revolution. Yet those who developed oral contraceptives did not intend their work to promote what the majority of Americans at the time called "promiscuity." Doctors generally refused to prescribe the pill to women who were not married; the Supreme Court did not rule this practice unconstitutional until 1972.

- Beth Bailey

topic: Practice, Doctors, Birth Control Pills, Unconstitutional, Contraceptives

Contraceptive methods are like putting a premium on vice. It makes men and women reckless... As it is, man has sufficiently degraded woman for his lust, and [contraception] , no matter how well meaning the advocates may be, will still further degrade her.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Men, Lust, Vices, Premium, Contraception

High level policy makers and program managers do not normally listen to the voices of local people, local providers and local program managers when they make decisions about contraceptive introduction or other aspects of program development in reproductive health.

- Ruth Simmons

source: Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

topic: Policy Makers, Contraceptives, Reproductive Health

Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.

- B. F. Skinner

topic: War, Practice, People, Human Behavior, Contraceptives

It is apparent that nothing short of contraceptives can put an end to the horrors of abortion and infanticide.

- Margaret Sanger

topic: Abortion, Horror, Ends, Infanticide, Contraceptives

I have been working with the World Health Organization since 1989 in an effort to redefine approaches to contraceptive introduction. This has given me the opportunity to insist that strategies for research and policy development must simultaneously address people's needs, the capacity of programs to provide good quality of care, and the range of technological options available.

- Ruth Simmons

source: Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

topic: World Health, World Health Organization, Contraceptives

The state has a right to do that [outlaw contraceptives], I have never questioned that the state has a right to do that. It is not a constitutional right, the state has the right to pass whatever statutes they have. That is the thing I have said about the activism of the Supreme Court, they are creating right, and they should be left up to the people to decide.

- Rick Santorum

topic: Creating, People, Outlaw, Contraceptives, Statutes

The best contraceptive for old people is nudity.

- Phyllis Diller

source: Phyllis Diller (2006). “Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy”, p.256, Penguin

topic: People, Nudity, Old People, Contraceptives

It all started in India in the late 60s when I began helping my husband George, who was in the population field, evaluate the introduction of the intrauterine contraceptive device. At that time the IUD was considered to be the panacea for India's population problem. George's dissertation was focused on population and he became interested in the question of this new technology and how people were responding to it.

- Ruth Simmons

source: Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

topic: Evaluate, Population Problem, Panacea, Contraceptives, Dissertation

Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.

- David R. Brower

topic: Government, Parent, Citizens, Reducing, Childbearing

I think the platform ought to be pro-life. It is the basis of the Republican Party. People have got to understand that abortion is not a contraceptive.

- George W. Bush

topic: Party, Thinking, People, Contraceptives

The way to plan the family is natural family planning, not contraception...This (use of contraceptives) turns the attention to self and so it destroys the gift of love in him or her. In loving, the husband and wife must turn the attention to each other as happens in natural family planning, and not to self, as happens in contraception. Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows easily . . . And abortion, which often follows from contraception, brings a people to be spiritually poor, and that is the worst poverty and the most difficult to overcome.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Husband, Love Is, Self, Pro Abortion, Contraception

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

- Pope Francis

topic: Teaching, Son, Gay, Contraceptives

How you answer the question, whether individuals should be persuaded to live their whole lives in a state of chemical dependency, first upon contraceptive steroids and then on replacement therapy, depends upon your regard for the autonomy of the individual. If men would not live their lives this way, why should women?

- Germaine Greer

source: "The Whole Woman". Book by Germaine Greer, 1999.

topic: Men, Answers, Way, Dependency, Contraceptives