1.
You make me wish that birth control was retroactive.
Redd Foxx
2.
A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.
Marie Stopes
3.
Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.
Camille Paglia
4.
It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola.
Clare Short
5.
To me, birth control and abortion are genocide.I say, make room for children, don't do away with them.
Dorothy Day
6.
More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control.
Margaret Sanger
7.
Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.
Cecile Richards
8.
I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.
Tahj Mowry
9.
Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit.
Margaret Sanger
10.
If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be cheap, too.
Anna Quindlen
11.
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
12.
The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
Indira Gandhi
13.
The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it's by no means dreadful.
Indira Gandhi
14.
The most important eugenic policy at this time is to see that birth control is made equally available to all individuals in every class of society
Frederick Osborn
16.
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.
Margaret Sanger
17.
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.
Madeleine M. Kunin
18.
The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.
Margaret Sanger
19.
The Church has always advised against birth control and that is the only position the Church can take in view of our beliefs with respect to the eternity of the marriage covenant and the purpose of this divine relationship.
Hugh B. Brown
20.
Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.
Brooke Shields
21.
But Sarah Weddingtonhad never told me that what I was signing would allow women to use abortions as a form of birth control. We talked about truly desperate and needy women, not women already wearing maternity clothes.
Norma McCorvey
23.
Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.
Aristotle
24.
Birth Control and abortion are turning out to be the great eugenic advances of our time.
Frederick Osborn
25.
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.
Kathy Ireland
26.
Did you ever notice that everyone in favour of birth control has already been born ?
Benny Hill
27.
Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact.
Richard Mitchell
28.
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.
Morena Baccarin
30.
Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
Clarence Darrow
31.
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.
Melinda Gates
32.
When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.
H. G. Wells
33.
I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer.
Bertrand Russell
35.
The problem of birth control and voluntary barrenness is poisoning the very fountains of life and defying God's injunction to multiply and replenish the earth.
Hugh B. Brown
36.
No, it is not because woman is lacking in responsibility, but because she has too much of the latter that she demands to know how to prevent conception.
Emma Goldman
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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.
Will Rogers
38.
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!
Janeane Garofalo
39.
My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children.
Robert Kennedy
40.
For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.
Louise Slaughter
41.
We would need less gun control if we had better birth control.
Richard Jeni
42.
The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently.
Margaret Smith
43.
I would never give artificial birth control to an unmarried person.
Judie Brown
44.
I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance.
Rima Fakih
45.
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).
A. J. Jacobs
46.
[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.
Harold B. Lee
47.
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.
Dick Durbin
48.
With every kind of birth control available in the world, abortion is not something to be proud of. If you need an abortion, you've failed.
Tammy Bruce
49.
Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
Havelock Ellis