Birth Control Quotes - Page 7

• Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control).

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Divorce, Parent

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• The acceptability of birth control has always depended on a morality that separates sex from reproduction. In the nineteenth century, when the birth control movement began, such a separation was widely considered immoral. The eventual widespread public acceptance of birth control required a major reorientation of sexual values.

  Linda Gordon

  Sex, Acceptance, Movement

  Linda Gordon (2002). “The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America”, p.1, University of Illinois Press

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• 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

  Practice, Doctors, Birth Control Pills

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• We are totally opposed to abortion under any circumstances. We are also opposed to abortifacient drugs and chemicals like the pill and the IUD, and we are also opposed to all forms of birth control with the exception of natural family planning (the rhythm method)

  Judie Brown

  Abortion, Drug, Pills

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• Zealous groups threaten to infringe civil liberties when they seek government support to impose their own religious views on nonadherents. This has taken many forms, including attempts to introduce organized prayer in public schools, to outlaw birth control and abortion, and to use public tax revenues to finance religious schools.

  Norman Dorsen

  Religious, Prayer, Taken

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• Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.

  Ray Bradbury

  Philosophy, Hydrogen Bomb, Ideas

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.

  Erica Jong

  Independent, Thinking, Government

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

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• I hope we don't have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion. The parity of women's health. It's very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.

  Erica Jong

  Depressing, Fighting, Winning

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

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• They're combining that new fertility drug with a birth control pill for people who don't want triplets.

  Robert Orben

  People, Drug, Pills

  Robert Orben (1978). “2000 new laughs for speakers: the ad-libber's handbook”, Random House Value Pub

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• Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus.

  Dana Gould

  Boys, Catholic, Church

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Feb 10, 2012

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• Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word... [it has] its own mysteries - this is my birth [control] pill; swallow it in remembrance of me!

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sex, Remembrance, Pills

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• Risk reduction for BRCA2 carriers includes taking tamoxifen. Removing ovaries prior to age 40 drops breast cancer risk in half. Ovarian cancer surveillance is unfortunately inadequate at early detection, but birth control pills reduce ovarian cancer incidence up to 60%.

  Kristi Funk

  Cancer, Risk, Age

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• My number one advice to high school girls is birth control. You want to keep all your options open for as long as possible? Birth control.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Girl, School, Numbers

  "Elizabeth Banks on Becoming a Director, Mentoring Young Women". Interview with Alex Stedman, variety.com. June 5, 2015.

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• After 'Roe v. Wade' - when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 - I thought the national conversation about abortion and birth control would be over. It was not.

  Karen DeCrow

  Abortion, Would Be, Wade

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• We have yet to beat our drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine. We are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics, even though this is the exact truth.

  Mary Calderone

  Baby, Epidemics, Polio Vaccine

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• Whatever each individual woman is facing; only she knows her biggest challenge. However, if we add up the problems that affect the biggest numbers of women, then issues having to do with physical safety and reproduction are still the biggest. Female bodies are still the battleground, whether that means restricting freedom, birth control and safe abortion in order to turn them into factories, or abandoning female infants because females are less valuable for everything other than reproduction.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mean, Order, Numbers

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• Another myth we fed to the public through the media was that legalizing abortion would only mean that the abortions taking place i1legally would then be done legally. In fact, of course, abortion is now being used as a primary method of birth control in the U.S. and the annual number of abortions has increased by 1,500 percent since legalization.

  Bernard Nathanson

  Mean, Media, Numbers

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• I do not think any reasonable person can doubt that in India, China and Japan, if the knowledge of birth control existed, the birthrate would fall very rapidly

  Bertrand Russell

  Fall, Thinking, Japan

  Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.706, Psychology Press

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• To me, birth control and abortion are genocide.I say, make room for children, don't do away with them.

  Dorothy Day

  Children, Abortion, Rooms

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word; and is used so as to curry favour even with those who would first recoil from its real meaning. The proceeding these quack doctors recommend does not control any birth.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Science, Doctors

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• I do get a sense that there's a huge disconnect between the political powers and what's really happening, so right-wing conservatives can talk about contraception all they want, but the women of America are using birth control. It's as simple as that.

  Anna Quindlen

  Simple, Wings, America

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The great thing about America is you can live according to your faith. If you're faith says don't use birth control then you don't use it.

  Ted Cruz

  America, Use, Great Things

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• It is clear that Americans have a right to birth control.

  Ted Cruz

  Birth, Clear

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Children are wonderful. It don't take plenty y'know. Just a nice girl who don't take birth control. Sexual intercourse is a lovely thing.

  Bob Marley

  Girl, Children, Nice

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• I would never give artificial birth control to an unmarried person.

  Judie Brown

  Giving, Persons, Artificial

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