Birth Control Quotations

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

There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has already come into existence, I haven't found any.

I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.

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.

The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently.

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.

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.

Romney, Gingrich, Santorum spent their week lecturing America about the morality of birth control. You know, you guys don't need birth control, you are birth control.

Did you ever notice that everyone in favour of birth control has already been born ?

Hard to imagine 40 years ago people could be convicted of a crime, fined, sent to prison for using the most common forms of birth control.

Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan, "Adoption, not Abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective.

We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time.

I prefer the earlier birth control techniques, which ranged from the delicious (using honey as a spermicide) to the aerobic (jumping backward seven times after coitus).

I want to thank my parents for not practicing birth control.

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

Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.

The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.

If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect.

[W]e declare it is a grievous sin before God to adopt restrictive measures in disobedience to God's divine command from the beginning of time to 'multiply and replenish the earth.' Surely those who project such measures to prevent life or to destroy life before or after birth will reap the whirlwind of God's retribution, for God will not be mocked.

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

Without liberals we wouldn't have unions. We wouldn't have environmental protections. We wouldn't have seat belts or birth control or the ACLU! Any of these things!

He squinted at me. "What are you wearing? Is that some new form of birth control?

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

Hope is the best contraceptive.

So if we use birth control we don't need to be married?

Has knowledge of birth control, so carefully guarded and so secretly practiced by the women of the wealthy class - and so tenaciously withheld from the working women - brought them misery? Rather, has it not promoted greater happiness, greater freedom, greater prosperity and more harmony among them? The women who have this knowledge are the women who have been free to develop, free to enjoy in its best sense, and free to advance the interests of the community.

Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking a single end but they lay emphasis upon different methods.

More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control.

No woman can call herself free who cannot choose the time to be a mother or not as she sees fit.

A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.

Many people are horrified at the idea of birth control. . . . It is simply the keynote of a new moral program.

birth control is the means by which woman attains basic freedom ...

The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.

Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit.

Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.

Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

We're more effective than birth control pills.

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!

My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young.

Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups.

If I could be the "condom queen" and get every young person who engaged in sex to use a condom in the United States, I would weara crown on my head with a condom on it! I would!

I still take the pill. I don't want any more grandchildren.

I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance.

Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact.

You make me wish that birth control was retroactive.

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

Well...I'm on birth control" I was drinking the water again and choked on it. It took several moments of coughing before I could gasp out. "What?" "It takes a while for it to start working, so I figured I should be prepared, just in case." "Just in case," I repeated, still dumbfounded.

I had one kid with the birth control pill, I had one with the diaphram and I had one with the I.U.D. I don't even know what happened with my I.U.D. It never came out. But I have my suspicions because that kid picks up HBO.

Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals.

The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.

Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.

Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.

Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.

A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.

Here's the best birth control in the whole world, if you really, if you have no pills, if you have no diaphragm, if you have no other form of contraception. Use it for ladies, if he comes at you with that little thing in his hand, just laugh at it. They can't deal with it, OK, it'll be gone.

What the Secretary of Agriculture is trying to do is to teach the farmer corn acreage control, and the hogs birth control, and one is just as hard to make understand it as the other.