Contraception Quotes

• The truth is that contraception saves lives, prevents unplanned pregnancies, improves outcomes for children and reduces the number of abortions.

  Ann McLane Kuster

  Children, Pregnancy, Numbers

  "The Case for Contraception" by Rep. Ann McLane Kuster, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2012.

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• The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.

  Felicity Huffman

  Pregnancy, Use, Way

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

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  You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

  Hillary Clinton

  Safety, Abortion, Planning

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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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• 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

  Men, Lust, May

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• For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.

  Louise Slaughter

  Children, Birth Control, Care

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• Many of the Christian faith have said, well, that's okay, contraception is okay. 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.

  Rick Santorum

  Christian, Said, Okay

  "9 controversial Rick Santorum quotes". theweek.com. January 5, 2012.

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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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• 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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• Have you noticed that all the people in favor of birth control are already born?

  Benny Hill

  Hilarious, Sarcastic, People

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• I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices

  Sharron Angle

  Choices, Kind, Responsible

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• The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.

  Julie Burchill

  Men, Abortion, Feminism

  Damaged Goods "Born Again Cows" (1986)

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• Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.

  Dora Russell

  Birth Control, Firsts, Poor

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• Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.

  Spike Milligan

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

  The Last Goon Show of All

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  No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

  Margaret Sanger

  Mother, Independent, Doe

  Woman and the New Race ch. 8 (1920)

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• The public likes to think that women only care about contraception.

  Nikki Haley

  Thinking, Care, Likes

  "South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley Says She'd Turn Down VP Nod" by Cynthia McFadden and Amy Bingham, abcnews.go.com. April 02, 2012.

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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.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Thinking, President

  "Rick Santorum On Electability, GM, Contraception and Afghanistan". Interview with Hugh Hewitt, www.hughhewitt.com. February 15, 2012.

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• You know, back in my days they used Bayer aspirin for contraception. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn't that costly.

  Foster Friess

  Aspirin, Knees, Election

  "Contraception Hearing Gets Heated in Congress". "NBC Nightly News" with Kelly O'Donnell, archives.nbclearn.com. February 16, 2012.

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• It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola.

  Clare Short

  Country, Needs, Birth Control

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• Attacking me and women who use contraception by calling us prostitutes and worse cannot silence us.

  Sandra Fluke

  Silence, Use, Calling

  "Sandra Fluke: Slurs won't silence women" by Sandra Fluke, www.cnn.com. March 14, 2012.

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• If you want to prevent abortions, you make sure everyone has health care, a high school education and birth control. Not the exact opposite.

  Chris Rock

  School, Opposites, Abortion

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• Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus.

  Robert Rubin

  Funny, Naughty, Sunglasses

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• No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

  Margaret Sanger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Contraception contradicts the full truth of the sexual act as the proper expression of conjugal love.

  Pope John Paul II

  Religious, Expression, Scary

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• Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.

  Richard Carmona

  Block, Trying, Parenthood

  "Arizona Effort to Block Contraception Simply Bad Health Policy" by Richard H. Carmona, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.

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