Birth Control Quotes - Page 8

• What the Secretary of Agriculture is trying to do is to teach the farmer corn acreage control, and the hogs birth control, and one is just as hard to make understand it as the other.

  Will Rogers

  Agriculture, Trying, Corn

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• We're living in an age of genocide. ...And we do believe that there is not only the genocide of war, and the genocide that took place with the extermination of the Jews, but the whole program....of birth control and abortion is another form of genocide.... [T]hey claim the poor are bringing forth tremendous numbers of children and so the solution is to kill them off.

  Dorothy Day

  Children, War, Believe

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• If I could be the "condom queen" and get every young person who engaged in sex to use a condom in the United States, I would weara crown on my head with a condom on it! I would!

  Joycelyn Elders

  Sex, Queens, United States

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• While American men are fighting to rid the old world of autocracy let American women set to and rid the new world of this intolerable old burden of sex ignorance.

  Crystal Eastman

  Sex, War, Ignorance

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

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• I would like to ask each of you: Would you be in favor of some kind of education on birth control and if so, how would you use that as a possible solution to the ever present question of abortion.

  Robert Duvall

  Abortion, Use, Favors

  "CNN Debate: What Fonda, Cuban, Nye, Stone, Jillette and Patterson want to ask", www.cnn.com. September 16, 2015.

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• Liberals believe in burning the American flag, urinating on crucifixes, and passing out birth control pills to 11-year-olds without telling their parents -- but God forbid an infidel touch a Quran at Guantanamo.

  Ann Coulter

  Believe, Years, Parent

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• Historically the opposition to abortion and birth control ... stemmed from the urgency of the need to decrease the mortality and morbidity rates and to increase the population ... in the matter of abortion the human rights of the mother with her family must take precedence over the survival of a few weeks' old foetus without sense or sensibility.

  Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill

  Mother, Rights, Abortion

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• A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Family Reunion, Genealogy, Form

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• The greatest issue is to raise the question of birth control out of the gutter of obscenity ... into the light of intelligence and human understanding.

  Margaret Sanger

  Issues, Light, Understanding

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• Birth control is the means by which woman attains basic freedom.

  Margaret Sanger

  Mean, Birth

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Hope is the best contraceptive.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Birth, Contraceptives

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• Anybody who's against birth control and abortion has to be a criminal idiot.

  Eleanor Clark

  Abortion, Criminals, Idiot

  Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins

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• A lady, that is an enlightened, cultivated, liberal lady - the only kind to be in a time of increasing classlessness - could espouse any cause: wayward girls, social diseases, unmarried mothers, and/or birth control with impunity. But never by so much as the shadow of a look should she acknowledge her own experience with the Facts of Life.

  Virgilia Peterson

  Girl, Mother, Hypocrisy

  Virgilia Peterson (1961). “A Matter of Life and Death”, Bantam Books

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• if you search the bible, you will find no reference to birth control or gay marriage, and you will not find a word, strangely, about stem cell research. I have searched.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Bible, Gay, Cells

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• A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.

  Marie Stopes

  Civilization, Modern, Individual

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• Birth Control and abortion are turning out to be the great eugenic advances of our time.

  Frederick Osborn

  Abortion, Birth, Our Time

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• I still take the pill. I don't want any more grandchildren.

  Phyllis Diller

  Grandchildren, Pills, Want

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• Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.

  Erica Jong

  Law, Wings, Abortion

  "Erica Jong on Feminism for the Future". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2014.

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• Birth Control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extirpation of defective stocks — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.

  Margaret Sanger

  Weed, Latin, Flower

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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

  Rights, Able, Privacy

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• And if the problem [with contraception] is promiscuity, then why does the immense popularity of Viagra go unchecked? Doesn't it make more sense to leave the bullets out of the gun than to try to avoid being shot? Especially when the gun is an old musket, and you have to clean it out and tamp down gunpowder, melt down scraps of lead and pour it into a mold, wait for it to cool - only to have it take forever to finally go off?

  Margaret Cho

  Gun, Waiting, Forever

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• Real Texans don't want any woman to die of cancer because she can't get decent health care or medical advice. Real Texans don't want any woman to lose control of her life because she can't get birth control.

  Wendy Davis

  Real, Cancer, Advice

  "It's the real Texans who count" by Wendy Davis, www.cnn.com. July 12, 2013.

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• [On being asked if she would favor birth control laws:] I will if you make it retroactive.

  Florence Prag Kahn

  Law, Favors, Ifs

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• ... I saw a small boy who belongs to one of those large families who only practice at birth control.

  Anne Ellis

  Boys, Practice, Saws

  Anne Ellis (1997). “Plain Anne Ellis: More about the Life of an Ordinary Woman”, p.31, U of Nebraska Press

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• Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction: a kind of forced labor culminating in the production of another soul for God. What kind of a God stands like Lee Iacocca at the end of an assembly line, driving his workers with a greedy 'More! More!' while the automobiles pile up in showrooms and on freeways and in used-car lots and finally junkyards, his only satisfaction the gross production figures at the end of every quarter?

  Nancy Mairs

  Children, Car, Soul

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