Contraceptives Quotes

• Education of both men and women is a wonderful contraceptive.

  Henry W. Kendall

  Men, Wonderful, Men And Women

  Henry W. Kendall (2013). “A Distant Light: Scientists and Public Policy”, p.233, Springer

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• Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant, but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision-makers. When women have the power to make choices about their families, they tend to decide precisely what demographers, economists, and development experts recommend. They invest in the long-term human capital of their families.

  Melinda Gates

  Powerful, Long, Choices

  "Why Birth Control Is Still a Big Idea". foreignpolicy.com. November 26, 2012.

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• The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would prevent teen pregnancies is ridiculous. That's like offering a cookbook as a cure to people who are trying to lose weight.

  Jerry Falwell

  Pregnancy, Offering, People

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• The greatest contraceptive one can have in the developing world is the knowledge that your children will live

  Julius Nyerere

  Children, Population, World

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• Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for abortion.

  Louise Slaughter

  Children, Pregnancy, Track

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• Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil.

  Pope Francis

  Pregnancy, Evil, Avoiding

  "Pope suggests contraception can be condoned in Zika crisis" by Harriet Sherwood, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2016.

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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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• ... 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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• The best contraceptive in the world is a good education.

  Joycelyn Elders

  World, Sexuality, Good Education

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• When my Republican colleagues talk about family values, they mean that a woman should not be able to have the right to control her own body; that women should not be able to purchase the contraceptives that they want. Those are their family values, not our family values.

  Bernie Sanders

  Mean, Body, Want

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• The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently.

  Margaret Smith

  Naughty, Birth Control, Contraception

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• I went on the pill when I was 16, put on four stone... so that proved to be a very effective contraceptive.

  Jo Brand

  Pills, Four, Stones

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• When I look at 225 million women who want contraceptives, and then I look at the 52 million unintended pregnancies that could be avoided by addressing this unmet need, where can we have the biggest impact with our voice, our dollars, our partners? It's on contraceptives. I would rather address the problem upstream.

  Melinda Gates

  Pregnancy, Voice, Impact

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Population control is not an issue involving contraceptives for third world women. It is an issue of ecological justice.

  Vandana Shiva

  Issues, Justice, Population

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Consistency is a contraceptive; it prevents the birth of new things!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Consistency, Birth, New Things

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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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• Most recently, the president's reluctance to offend Senator Rick Santorum - a Catholic theocrat who believes that states should have the power to arrest gay lovers in their bedrooms, or even to criminalize couples who use contraceptives - was an occasion to wonder what, exactly, Mr. Bush was born-again into.

  Bill Keller

  Couple, Believe, Gay

  "God and George W. Bush". www.nytimes.com. May 17, 2003.

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• I don't believe there is one woman within the confines of this state who does not believe in birth control. I never met one. That is, I never met one who thought that she should be kept in ignorance of contraceptive methods. Many I have met who valued the knowledge they possessed, but thought there were certain other classes who would be better kept in ignorance. The old would protect the young. The rich would keep the poor in ignorance. The good would keep their knowledge from the bad, the strong from the weak.

  Crystal Eastman

  Strong, Believe, Ignorance

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The persistent advocates of contraceptive-style sex education have become more and more resourceful in using taxpayer funds to impose their casual-sex attitudes and explicit-sex instruction on other people's children.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Sex, Attitude, Children

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• My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Women, Lying, Exercise

  Mahatma Gandhi (1964). “Through Self-control”

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• Now we just really need to do the work, which we're doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.

  Melinda Gates

  Needs

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• Leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods express a preference for "natural" methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation.

  Richard Dawkins

  Leader, Population, Followers

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.144, Oxford University Press

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• The argument that women who become pregnant have in some sense consented to the pregnancy belies realityand others who are the inevitable losers in the contraceptive lottery no more 'consent' to pregnancy than pedestrians 'consent' to being struck by drunk drivers.'

  Dawn Johnsen

  Pregnancy, Drunk, Loser

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• We like foreplay with God, but we make sure we have our spiritual contraceptives on! Cause we don't want to conceive nothing.

  Eddie Long

  Spiritual, Want, Causes

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• The population explosion is an ecological phenomenon of displacement. Unless we solve that ecological problem of displacing people - to build huge dams, to build motorways, to take away what people need in order to survive - we will keep pumping more and more money into population programs. We will have more and more coercive and violent methods through which women's bodies are treated as experimental grounds for new contraceptives. Yet we will not have a solution to the problem of numbers.

  Vandana Shiva

  Order, Numbers, People

  Source: scottlondon.com

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