Contraception Quotes - Page 2

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

  Margaret Sanger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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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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• Yesterday, the White House confirmed that President Obama will meet with Pope Francis during his visit in September. Some experts are wondering if they'll discuss their disagreement over contraception. Then Joe Biden said, 'I didn't even know they were dating.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  White, Yesterday, Dating

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• I am all for contraception. And I am all for preventative measures that are legal and safe, and should be taken.

  Sarah Palin

  Taken, Safe, Should

  "Palin Opens Up On Controversial Issues". Interview with Katie Couric, www.cbsnews.com. September 30, 2008.

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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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• 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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• In our prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote because they shared our genes. Now we live in big cities. We are not among kin nor people who will ever reciprocate our good deeds. It doesn't matter. Just as people engaged in sex with contraception are not aware of being motivated by a drive to have babies, it doesn't cross our mind that the reason for do-gooding is based in the fact that our primitive ancestors lived in small groups.

  Richard Dawkins

  Baby, Sex, Past

  Source: inters.org

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• As people turn to contraception, there will be a rise, not a fall, in the abortion rate.

  Malcolm Potts

  Fall, People, Abortion

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• We need to realize that a society in which contraceptives are widely used is going to have a very difficult time keeping free of abortions since the lifestyles and attitudes that contraception fosters create an alleged "need" for abortion.

  Janet E. Smith

  Attitude, Time Keeping, Abortion

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• Now that we all agree contraception is a bad idea, let's take a harder look at electricity and soap.

  Andy Borowitz

  Ideas, Looks, Soap

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Feb 11, 2012

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• My favorite story about O'Connor - one of them - is I was in Toronto at a pro-life conference.I had a session before he was to come on,I thought very moderately - that not have unwanted abortions was to have much more research on contraception. Two true-faith people came out of the audience, wrested the microphone out of my hand and said, `That is im - inappropriate, improper. Pro-lifers do not believe in contraception.' [John] O'Connor's watching this said,`I want to tell you I'm delighted that Nat is not a member of the Catholic Church. We have enough trouble as it is.'

  Nat Hentoff

  Believe, Hands, Two

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• In 1985, I was living with my sister in Virginia, and since I was still in high school, I worked at McDonald's to save money to get an abortion. It sounds really terrible, but it was the best decision I ever made. It was the first time I took responsibility for my actions. I messed up, had sex without contraception, and got pregnant at 15.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Sex, School, Responsibility

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• We have sexual lust even though we know perfectly well that, because we're using contraception, it is not going to result in the propagation of our genes. That doesn't matter, because the lust was built into our brains at a time when there was no contraception.

  Richard Dawkins

  Lust, Brain, Matter

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• What some men don't understand is that by opposing policies to reduce violence, promote equal pay and universal healthcare and voting to limit access to contraception and legal abortion, they are relegating women to another century, a time when men ruled exclusively and women were considered property and had to be guided by a firm masculine hand.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Men, Equal Pay, Hands

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• The final end of abortion in America will come when every human being begins to appreciate his own life as a gift from God and the lives of those entrusted to his care as the true blessings they are.  A culture that affirms life will not practice contraception nor will it murder its progeny.

  Judie Brown

  Blessing, Practice, America

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• To dissociate the child from love is, for our species, a methodological error: contraception, which is to make love without making a child; artificial (in vitro) fertilization, which is to make a child without making love; abortion, which is to unmake the child; and pornography, which is to unmake love: all these, to varying degrees, are incompatible with natural law.

  Jerome Lejeune

  Children, Love Is, Errors

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• Rick Santorum has come out against contraception and against college. He wants us literally to be f**king stupid.

  Bill Maher

  Kings, Stupid, College

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• We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren't enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Cutting, Ebola, People

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• The way to plan the family is natural family planning, not contraception...This (use of contraceptives) turns the attention to self and so it destroys the gift of love in him or her. In loving, the husband and wife must turn the attention to each other as happens in natural family planning, and not to self, as happens in contraception. Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows easily . . . 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

  Husband, Love Is, Self

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• I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.

  Foster Friess

  Kids, Years, Two

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• Now that children don't till your fields or take you in when you're incontinent, there is no sensible reason to have them, and it's amazing that with the advent of effective contraception anyone chooses to reproduce at all.

  Lionel Shriver

  Children, Fields, Advent

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.26, Counterpoint Press

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• If you listen to the Catholic bishops you would think that Catholics are against contraception and legal abortion, but if you ask actual Catholics, you discover that more than 90% of Catholic women use contraception and Catholic women seem to need and choose legal abortion at about the same rate as everybody else. The problem is that the backlash occupies positions of power, not that it represents the majority of people.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Position Of Power, People

  Source: bluestockingsmag.com

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• The reduction in a number of pregnancies is - compensates for the cost of contraception. ... Providing contraception as a critical preventive health benefit for women and for their children reduces health care.

  Kathleen Sebelius

  Children, Pregnancy, Numbers

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• Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is the business of all religious doctrines to keep their votaries in a state of intellectual infancy (how else do they keep absurdities seeming credible?), insufficient numbers of Catholics have been able to be sensible.

  A.C. Grayling

  Religious, Men, Views

  A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.12, Oberon Books

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