Birth Control Quotes - Page 2

• It is an act of extreme selfishness for a married couple to refuse to have children when they are able to do so.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Children, Couple, Selfishness

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• Some who have been perfectly healthy and able to bear children have avoided this responsibility, and in doing so have resorted to the use of harmful practices and devices resulting often in physical injury to the wife and demoralization to both parties. Some have wondered if the Church would approve such practices. Of course it never has and never could.

  Mark E. Petersen

  Children, Party, Responsibility

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• I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Girl, Crazy

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• We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time.

  Art Hoppe

  Naughty, Worry, Population

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• I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a whole, here and everywhere. I mention here only the fight against birth control at a time when overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organize peace on this planet.

  Albert Einstein

  Country, Fighting, Practice

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.416, Princeton University Press

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• Seeking the pleasure of conjugality without a willingness to assume the responsibilities of rearing a family is one of the onslaughts that now batter at the structure of the American home. Intelligence and mutual consideration should be ever-present factors in determining the coming of children to the home.

  David O. McKay

  Children, Home, Responsibility

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• The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug.

  Patty Murray

  Fda, Abortion, Drug

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• At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that was when the population was two per square world.

  Israel Shenker

  Squares, Two, Catholic

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• Although every organized religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil, the Roman Catholic church also carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion, and by its use of skillful and wealthy lobbies to prevent legislative change. It is an obscenity-an all-male hierarchy, celibate or not, that presumes to rule on the lives and bodies of millions of women.

  Robin Morgan

  Fear, Hate, Evil

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• The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion

  Robin Morgan

  Abortion, Catholic, Church

  Robin Morgan (1970). “Sisterhood is powerful: an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement”, Vintage

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• The world teaches birth control. Tragically, many of our sisters subscribe to its pills and practices when they could easily provide earthly tabernacles for more of our Father's children. We know that every spirit assigned to this earth will come, whether through us or someone else. There are couples in the Church who think they are getting along just fine with their limited families but who will someday suffer the pains of remorse when they meet the spirits that might have been part of their posterity.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Children, Couple, Pain

  Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

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• Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.

  Clarence Darrow

  People, Remember, Fifth

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.20, Lulu.com

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• What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.

  Harry Caray

  Baseball, Mama, Bears

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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

  Views, Church, Purpose

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• 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

  Earth, Problem, Fountain

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• The efforts on the parts of Eastern magazine writers to educate the people of the United States, particularly parents, to the doctrine that they limit the number of their offspring to three or four children, and how this can be accomplished, is both pernicious and an abomination in the sight of the Lord; and it robs both man and his Maker of their glory and increase.

  George F. Richards

  Children, Men, Numbers

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• ... 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

  Spiritual, Husband, Men

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• True motherhood is the noblest call of the world, and we look with sorrow upon the practice here in our own United States of limiting families, a tendency creeping into our own Church.

  David O. McKay

  Motherhood, Practice, Sorrow

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• When the husband and wife are healthy, and free from inherited weaknesses and diseases that might be transmitted with injury to their offspring the use of contraceptives is to be condemned.

  David O. McKay

  Husband, Wife, Healthy

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• My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young.

  Morena Baccarin

  Mother, Goes On, Young

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Population, Opponents, Way

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Impact of Science On Society”, p.85, Lulu Press, Inc

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• True to form, many of the people who desire to frustrate God's purposes of giving mortal tabernacles to His spirit children through worldwide birth control are the very same people who support the kinds of government that perpetuate famine. They advocate an evil to cure the results of the wickedness they support.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Children, Government, People

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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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

  Jumping, Technique, Honey

  A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

  H. L. Mencken

  Women, Pregnancy, Science

  Minority Report: H. L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)

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• One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Boys, Years, Comedy

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