Top 128 Contraception Quotes & Sayings

Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.

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

Now Pope Francis on his overnight flight back to Italy explains how contraception can be justified. This is the pope, the Vicar of Christ, the Catholic Church explaining how contraception could be justified. And then he rips into capitalism and the American immigration policies while at the Mexican border before getting on his plane to go back to Italy.

Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology.

If one is willing to have children, rhythm is probably the best method of contraception.

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.

Nothing about contraception should be taught in schools. There is no question that it will encourage sexual activity.

One of the things I regret about not putting in that book or I think it's there but I didn't really elaborate on it, is contraception. I came across someone who articulated very clearly that one of the things which makes our approach to Buddhist practice in regards to sex different these days than it was in Buddhist times, is the simple existence of reliable contraception, which is a no brainer but I missed really addressing it in the book.

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.

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

You know, back in my days they used Bayer aspirin for contraception. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn't that costly.

We don't give federal grants to tobacco companies to teach students 'low-risk' forms of smoking on the grounds that 'kids are going to smoke anyway.' We shouldn't be giving federal grants to groups that sell contraception, to teach kids to use contraception.

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.

What's the difference between me and Mark Udall on contraception? I believe the pill ought to be available over the counter, around the clock, without a prescription. Cheaper and easier for you.

It is of great concern that the fabric of African life, its very source of hope and stability, is threatened by divorce, abortion, prostitution, human trafficking, and a contraception mentality.

There is no known device for artistic contraception.

Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.

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

I have received so many messages of support from across the country - women and men speaking out because they agree that contraception needs to be treated as a basic health care service.

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.'

Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school.

I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices.

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.

A fast word about oral contraception. I was involved in an extremely good example of oral contraception two weeks ago. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said 'no'.

The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her

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.

Thoughtful education programs and access to effective forms of contraception are key to preventing unplanned pregnancy.

Contraception has to be available for anybody who needs it.

Contraception is a couple's issue.

I was proud to share the stories of my friends at Georgetown Law who have suffered dire medical consequences because our student insurance does not cover contraception for the purpose of preventing pregnancy.

Bottom line: Contraception does not reduce abortion.

The public likes to think that women only care about contraception.

Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus.

Contraception contradicts the full truth of the sexual act as the proper expression of conjugal love.

Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily.

Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

For the record, I believe that women and their doctors should have access to oral contraception when desired by the patient and medically appropriate.

Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves.

Attacking me and women who use contraception by calling us prostitutes and worse cannot silence us.

It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices.

Contraception leads to more babies being born out of wedlock, like fire extinguishers lead to more fires.

I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices

The power of the state stops at our skins. They can't restrict contraception [or] abortion. They can't take our kidneys. Bodily integrity is a principle.

The public likes to think that women only care about contraception. Contraception doesn't define a woman.That's - doesn't define our views. We're so much smarter and broader than that.

Denial of contraception to women without the financial means to afford it could cause substantial economic burdens, and even greater burdens if the lack of contraception results in an unintended pregnancy.

The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.

Most republicans are against contraception because they don't care about it. You can't get pregnant anally anyway.

It is entirely possible that Limbaugh himself never needed contraception in college, but virtue in the absence of opportunity is hardly a moral triumph.

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

Contraception doesn't define a woman.

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

The truth is that contraception saves lives, prevents unplanned pregnancies, improves outcomes for children and reduces the number of abortions.

Didn't we settle contraception & affirmative action? If the GOP keep going backwards they'll soon be debating slavery.

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

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.

I would like to outlaw contraception... contraception is disgusting - people using each other for pleasure.

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.

Contraception really shouldn't be all that controversial because it's a tool a woman can use to delay her first birth until she's, say, 18 or 19 years old.

Don't jump down - folks, contraception in the Catholic Church is a thing.

One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country.