Contraception Quotes - Page 4

• There are people who think contraception is immoral because the object of copulation is procreation. In a similar way there are people who think the only reason to read a book is to write a book.

  Helen DeWitt

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Helen DeWitt (2016). “The Last Samurai”, p.18, New Directions Publishing

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• Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.

  Al Franken

  Pregnancy, Use, Way

  "Live from the Headlines" with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. August 25, 2003.

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• Nothing about contraception should be taught in schools. There is no question that it will encourage sexual activity.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  School, Taught, Should

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• A fast word about oral contraception. I was involved in an extremely good example of oral contraception two weeks ago. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said 'no'.

  Woody Allen

  Girl, Two, Bed

  "Standup Comic". 1999.

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• When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread. But a person who is shut out, who feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person who has been thrown out of society - that spiritual poverty is much harder to overcome. 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

  Spiritual, People, Giving

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• The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her

  Mother Teresa

  Husband, Self, Wife

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• We must not put pressure on people, but by providing information on the population and the environment, and appropriate contraception for everyone (and by their own example), doctors should help bring family size into the arena of environmental ethics, analogous to avoiding patio heaters and high carbon cars.

  John Guillebaud

  Doctors, People, Car

  "Limit families to two children 'to combat climate change'". www.telegraph.co.uk. July 24, 2008.

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• Those who have prophesied dreadful consequences as a result of the greater sexual freedom which the young assert - unwanted babies, venereal disease and so on - are usually the very same people who seek the fulfillment of their prophecies by opposing the free availability to the young of contraception and the removal of the stigma and mystification that surround venereal disease.

  Colin Ward

  Baby, Sex, Availability

  Colin Ward (2017). “Anarchy in Action”, p.88, PM Press

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• One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country. It's not okay. It's a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be. [Sex] is supposed to be within marriage. It's supposed to be for purposes that are yes, conjugal... but also procreative. That's the perfect way that a sexual union should happen... This is special and it needs to be seen as special.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Sex, Crazy

  "Rick Santorum Pledges To Defund Contraception: ‘It’s Not Okay, It’s A License To Do Things’". Interview with Shane Vander Hart, thinkprogress.org. October 19, 2011.

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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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• Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary, they have babies at such a young age precisely because they are poor--because they do not have the opportunity to acquire an education, because meaningful, well-paying jobs and creative forms of recreation are not accessible to them ... because safe, effective forms of contraception are not available to them.

  Angela Davis

  Girl, Meaningful, Baby

  Angela Y. Davis (2011). “Women, Culture & Politics”, p.26, Vintage

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• Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

  Felicity Huffman

  Commitment, Organization, Issues

  "Don't threaten women's health care" By Felicity Huffman, www.cnn.com. February 29, 2012.

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• I would like to outlaw contraception... contraception is disgusting - people using each other for pleasure.

  Joseph Scheidler

  People, Abstinence, Pleasure

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• Our brains are separate and independent enough from our genes to rebel against them.. we do so in a small way everytime we use contraception. There is no reason why we should not rebel in a large way too.

  Richard Dawkins

  Independent, Brain, Reason Why

  Richard Dawkins (2006). “The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition”, p.332, OUP Oxford

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• Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology.

  Max Perutz

  Success, Science, Technology

  "The Impact of Science on Society: The Challenge for Education". "Science and Technology and Future Human Needs" by J. L. Lewis and P. J. Kelly, 1987.

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• Contraception leads to more babies being born out of wedlock, like fire extinguishers lead to more fires.

  Stephen Colbert

  Baby, Fire, Wedlock

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• The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one of the two political parties that alternate in power in our governing institutions. It is akin to the view that global warming is a hoax, or that the budget can be balanced through spending cuts alone, or that contraception causes abortion, or that evolution is just another theory, on a par with the theory that the earth is six thousand years old.

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Taken, Party, Cutting

  "Trumpery" by Hendrik Hertzberg, prod02.newyorker.com. May 2, 2011.

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• The Irish people didn't get on that well with each other either. They hated the Catholics, was the main issue, as I see. You can't blame them for that. If I understand correctly, Catholics do not believe in contraception. So, you know, sex is not relaxing.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Sex, Believe, Issues

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• Most republicans are against contraception because they don't care about it. You can't get pregnant anally anyway.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Humor, Care

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• If one's careful study of the facts shows that the Catholic Church is correct about Jesus-his life, teachings, death, and Resurrection-then why not give the Church the benefit of the doubt and carefully study her reasons for rejecting contraception, homosexual acts, and women's ordination?

  Carl E. Olson

  Jesus, Teaching, Giving

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• I think it's really important to enlarge the issue behind abortion. I have been serving for over two decades and I have seen year in and year out largely the Republicans voting against women's contraception, family planning.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Years, Two

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• If one is willing to have children, rhythm is probably the best method of contraception.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Children, Birth Control, Method

  Elizabeth Hawes (1948). “Anything But Love: A Complete Digest of the Rules of Feminine Behavior from Birth to Death ...”

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• It's not about contraception. It's about economic liberty, it's about freedom of speech, it's about freedom of religion, it's about government control of your lives and it's got to stop!

  Rick Santorum

  Control Of Your Life, Government, Freedom Of Speech

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• From the very beginning the president [of USA] had two very important principles that had to be reconciled. One principle is that every woman should have the right to all forms of preventive health care, including contraception. The other is that we need to respect the religious liberties which are the cornerstone of American life.

  Jacob Lew

  Religious, Should Have, Usa

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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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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