Contraceptives Quotes - Page 2

• I have been around conservatives my entire life. I have never met a single human being, in any place, who wanted to ban contraceptives.

  Ted Cruz

  Mets, Bans, Wanted

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• There's an effort on the part of many people to attack women's rights, women's health, and the ability to control our own lives. No doubt about it. And it is not a majority of the country, in any way, shape, or form. I know on the contraceptive issue, 70 percent of the country agrees with me. Will that stop my opponents? No. Because they are so radical. They chip away and chip away.

  Barbara Boxer

  Country, Issues, Rights

  Source: progressive.org

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• If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I'm counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don't have access to the contraceptives they need?

  Melinda Gates

  Daughter, Believe, Son

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own.

  Louise Slaughter

  Low Income, Poor, Lows

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• Ugliness is nature's contraceptive.

  Gregory Benford

  Ugliness

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• In the United States, there's definitely some controversy about birth control in general, and I think we needed to split the debate and have people realize that we actually agree as a country about contraceptives. Over 93 percent of American women say they use contraceptives, and they feel very good about it.

  Melinda Gates

  Country, Thinking, People

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

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• Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Women, Insult, Womanhood

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

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• As small, quick, foolproof cameras became generally available, moreover, the camera has been used so much and so flabbily by so many people that it has acted as a sort of contraceptive on the ability to see.

  James Agee

  People, Cameras, Used

  Helen Levitt, James Agee (1989). “A way of seeing”

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• Kids should be taught about sex, sex hygiene and contraceptive methods starting in the sixth grade, and whenever they want to try it, they should be allowed to go at it without supervision or restriction -in their parents' bedroom, on the grass in a park, in a motel; it doesn't matter, as long as the setting is private and pleasant. If we did all this, our kids would grow up into happier, healthier human beings. But we won't, of course. It would make too much sense.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Sex, Growing Up, Kids

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• I don't believe that bureaucrats in Washington should tell someone whether they can use contraceptives or not. And I don't believe employers should tell someone whether they could have contraceptive care of not. Every woman in America should have access to contraceptives.

  Mitt Romney

  Believe, Should Have, America

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Fundamentalism is rigorously and systematically used to indoctrinate and subjugate young minds. It is a contraceptive designed to prevent intellectual fertilization.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Intellectual, Mind, Used

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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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• 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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• High level policy makers and program managers do not normally listen to the voices of local people, local providers and local program managers when they make decisions about contraceptive introduction or other aspects of program development in reproductive health.

  Ruth Simmons

  Voice, People, Decision

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.

  B. F. Skinner

  Art, Philosophy, War

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• It is apparent that nothing short of contraceptives can put an end to the horrors of abortion and infanticide.

  Margaret Sanger

  Abortion, Horror, Ends

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.25, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I have been working with the World Health Organization since 1989 in an effort to redefine approaches to contraceptive introduction. This has given me the opportunity to insist that strategies for research and policy development must simultaneously address people's needs, the capacity of programs to provide good quality of care, and the range of technological options available.

  Ruth Simmons

  Opportunity, Organization, People

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• The state has a right to do that [outlaw contraceptives], I have never questioned that the state has a right to do that. It is not a constitutional right, the state has the right to pass whatever statutes they have. That is the thing I have said about the activism of the Supreme Court, they are creating right, and they should be left up to the people to decide.

  Rick Santorum

  Creating, People, Outlaw

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• The best contraceptive for old people is nudity.

  Phyllis Diller

  People, Nudity, Old People

  Phyllis Diller (2006). “Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy”, p.256, Penguin

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• It all started in India in the late 60s when I began helping my husband George, who was in the population field, evaluate the introduction of the intrauterine contraceptive device. At that time the IUD was considered to be the panacea for India's population problem. George's dissertation was focused on population and he became interested in the question of this new technology and how people were responding to it.

  Ruth Simmons

  Husband, Technology, Population Problem

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.

  David R. Brower

  Government, Parent, Historical

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• I think the platform ought to be pro-life. It is the basis of the Republican Party. People have got to understand that abortion is not a contraceptive.

  George W. Bush

  Party, Thinking, 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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• We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church, for that matter, is clear and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

  Pope Francis

  Teaching, Son, Gay

  "A Big Heart Open to God: An interview with Pope Francis". Interview with Antonio Spadaro, S.J., www.americamagazine.org. September 30, 2013.

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• How you answer the question, whether individuals should be persuaded to live their whole lives in a state of chemical dependency, first upon contraceptive steroids and then on replacement therapy, depends upon your regard for the autonomy of the individual. If men would not live their lives this way, why should women?

  Germaine Greer

  Men, Answers, Way

  "The Whole Woman". Book by Germaine Greer, 1999.

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