Introduction:
Welcome to our compilation of Birth Control Quotes, where wisdom, wit, and insight converge on the topic of contraception. Birth control, a cornerstone of reproductive health and family planning, has been a subject of discourse, debate, and advocacy throughout history. From empowering individuals with control over their bodies to sparking discussions on societal norms and ethics, birth control remains a pivotal aspect of modern life.
In this curated collection, we delve into the thoughts and perspectives of notable figures, thinkers, and activists who have contributed to the discourse surrounding birth control. Their words encapsulate the diverse array of beliefs, ideologies, and experiences that intersect with this crucial aspect of human autonomy and reproductive rights. Explore these quotes to gain fresh insights, find inspiration, or simply reflect on the complexities inherent in the realm of contraception. Remember, knowledge is power, and understanding diverse perspectives can enrich our understanding of this vital subject matter. Now, without further ado, delve into the wisdom encapsulated in the quotes below.
After ‘Roe v. Wade’ – when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 – I thought the national conversation about abortion and birth control would be over. It was not. Karen DeCrow
I grew up hearing stories about my grandmother – my mother’s mother – who used to go to villages in India in her little VW bug. My grandmother would take a bullhorn and make sure women in these villages knew how to access birth control. Kamala Harris
We need to stop trying to restrict access to lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, and well-woman exams. Elizabeth Esty
One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it’s on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice. William P. Leahy
Consider this for a moment: House Republicans would rather cut off a woman’s access to birth control, cancer screenings, and other preventative care from Planned Parenthood than continue to fund and operate the federal government. Brad Schneider
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
If you want to truly stand up for women’s reproductive rights, then stand against birth control. Because nothing says anti-woman more than birth control. Abby Johnson
Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There’s one more argument for birth control. Freddy Fender
I don’t believe in birth control. Tiny Tim
If you aren’t creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren’t listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up. Michelle Malkin
Couples without kids have each other, their friends, families, and Siri to talk to. It’s not like they’re quarantining themselves in an underground bunker, never to take a romantic stroll on the beach or attend a Morrissey concert ever again. They’re just using birth control. Jen Kirkman
If the Democrats want to insult women by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it. Mike Huckabee
There are fewer unwanted pregnancies and fewer occasions where a woman is confronted with that decision if she has access to family planning and birth control. That’s why I support Planned Parenthood; that’s why I support Title X. Bob Casey, Jr.
I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control. Muriel Spark
I do not support legislation that would ban birth control. Cory Gardner
There was a time when papal encyclicals were treated as virtual pronouncements of papal infallibility. There are still a small minority of Catholics who cite Pope Paul VI’s 1968 document Humanae Vitae – which outlawed artificial birth control – as the word of God. John Cornwell
I don’t think most conservatives are against access to birth control, but they are wary of funding things like Planned Parenthood. Tomi Lahren
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
Margaret Sanger didn’t just introduce the idea of birth control into our culture at large, she freed women from indenture to their bodies. Roxane Gay
When we talk about more access to birth control, a lot of times that means more funding for Planned Parenthood, and we know that’s a touchy subject, so I certainly see that perspective and agree with a lot of conservatives on it. Tomi Lahren
In my opinion, the battles over birth control and Planned Parenthood are primarily neither political nor religious. This is an issue of equality for women. This is an issue of women’s rights: Planned Parenthood is the most important private provider of reproductive health care for women in the United States. Karen DeCrow
A series of studies in the 1990s and 2000s revealed that as women gained more access to education, jobs, and birth control, they had fewer children. As a result, developed countries in western Europe, Japan, and the Americas were seeing zero or negative population growth. Annalee Newitz
The evidence is pretty strong: if you have access to family planning and birth control, the abortion rate is going to go down. Bob Casey, Jr.
I got married to Doug in 2005. I knew that we wanted to delay having children for a while, and I had tried pretty much every hormonal birth control method under the sun. Abby Johnson
Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal. Cecile Richards
For Democrats to reduce women to beggars for cheap government-funded birth control is demeaning to the women that I know who are far more complicated than their libido and the management of their reproductive system. Mike Huckabee
The problem of burgeoning population can be addressed if we begin with women itself. And, we need to educate them and spread awareness about birth control and family planning through TV channels and newspapers. Geeta Phogat
The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control. Friedrich Durrenmatt
Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966. Karen DeCrow
I have said that I am in favor of personhood as a concept. I am not taking a position on any of the state amendments, and I have said over and over again – and it has been reported over and over again – that I am not in favor of banning any common forms of birth control in Colorado or in the United States. Ken Buck
The GOP wants to cut funding for birth control, place undue burdens on clinics that serve low income women and families, and defund Planned Parenthood. Deb Haaland
I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill. Karen Bender
I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it’s a controlled substance. Rima Fakih
We know that the way to decrease unplanned pregnancies and abortions is to make birth control and family planning services accessible and affordable, not micromanage the type of medical information and reproductive health counseling that women around the world receive. Jeanne Shaheen
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
Family planning, birth control, no Muslim family can practice such an understanding. Recep Tayyip Erdogan
So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? It’s like we woke up in a bad episode of ‘Mad Men.’ Cecile Richards
My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but – and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file. Katha Pollitt
The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection – along with giving an employer permission to ask for medical records showing why a woman is taking birth control – opens up a set of problems that I’m sure its sponsors have not fully considered. Richard Carmona
I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question. Harri Holkeri
My father was Catholic, my mom Baptist, so we were raised Baptist but had a lot of Catholic upbringing: fish on Fridays, no birth control. Dennis Haysbert
Libido is a normal part of being human. Nothing scandalous about it. But without it, in either women or men, would there be a demand for birth control? Mike Huckabee
The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug. Patty Murray
I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is. Tahj Mowry
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
We’re more effective than birth control pills. Johnny Carson
I’ve been supporting Planned Parenthood all my life. I’ve even used it myself, back when I had no money. It’s where I got my birth control. During college, every one of us got support from them. Marilyn Minter
Birth control is an important part of women’s healthcare. It allows women to plan and time their pregnancies, and reduces preterm births and maternal complications. Leana S. Wen
Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we’re gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things. Evel Knievel
Creating a system that makes birth control accessible for everyone not only helps women plan for their futures, and lessen the risk of poverty by preventing pregnancy, but it also saves taxpayers money. Ana Kasparian
Whether we are talking about access to affordable birth control, feeling safe from violence in our homes, or being able to earn the same amount of money as our male counterparts, these are rights that all people deserve, and they are being threatened. Ann McLane Kuster
The animal birth control and anti-rabies programmes, which are under the threat of being altered or discontinued, need to be strengthened in order to address the issue of the stray dog menace. Amala Akkineni
Thanks to health reform, women across the country with private insurance can get birth control without paying out of pocket. This lets women make the health care decisions that are right for them and puts every one of us in charge of our own reproductive health. Ann McLane Kuster
Personally, I’d be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their grandparents would find themselves on the same side. Gail Collins
If a woman goes to Planned Parenthood for birth control and discovers in the course of her visit that she has high blood pressure, Planned Parenthood can’t help her. She has to be referred to a FQHC for treatment. Abby Johnson
We know the risks of birth control, and yet we continue to pump it into our system as if we have no choice. Abby Johnson
It is futile to talk too much about the past… like trying to make birth control retroactive. Charles Erwin Wilson
I can’t speak for every woman, but my birth control is covered by my insurance, and if it weren’t covered, it would cost $9 a month. I don’t know a lot of women who can’t afford $9 a month. Tomi Lahren
Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy. Steve Bannon
How did abortion and birth control impact the congressional race of Dan Maffei and Ann Marie Buerkle or the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney? I don’t know. But I think the so-called social issues were front and center in the minds of voters. These issues may indeed have lost the Republicans some elections. Karen DeCrow
My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on. Joan Rivers
Birth control that really works – every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids. Roseanne Barr
The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills. Tom DeLay
What’s happened with the over-the-counter birth control issue is that the Democrats didn’t see it coming. They think that they’ve got a monopoly on talking to women from the waist down. Anything that has to do with reproduction and birth control and abortion – they call it women’s health, then they call it women’s issues. Kellyanne Conway
Real Texans don’t want any woman to die of cancer because she can’t get decent health care or medical advice. Real Texans don’t want any woman to lose control of her life because she can’t get birth control. Wendy Davis
The Roman Catholic church… carries the immense power of very directly affecting women’s lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion. Robin Morgan
So we want to free the women of America? You know what would free the women of America? Make men accept responsibility for birth control. Judy Sheindlin
We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I think that is the most ethical way to reduce our population. Christian de Duve
Natural Family Planning works and is as effective, and sometimes more effective, than the birth control methods out there. Abby Johnson
When I was 16 and I wanted information about birth control, Planned Parenthood was the first and only place that I could think of going for my health care and education. Leana S. Wen
It is essential that the women’s preventive coverage benefit, including contraception, be available to all women, regardless of what health plan they have or where they work – as Congress intended. Providing access to birth control just makes good sense. Gwen Moore
As I say, I can’t wait until Congress – half of Congress can get pregnant so we can quit fighting about birth control and Planned Parenthood. Cecile Richards
Absolutely. It’s something I’d eventually love. In the meantime, I just borrow all my friends’ kids. It’s seriously the best birth control in the world. I’m so tired afterward, I’m like, Okay, maybe in another two years. Sarah Michelle Gellar
We’d certainly have paid leave already by now, we’d have equal pay, we’d have a living minimum wage – a lot of things would change having that diversity of opinion in Washington. We certainly wouldn’t be debating whether women should have access to birth control. Kirsten Gillibrand
One year they asked me to be poster boy – for birth control. Rodney Dangerfield
President Obama is also standing up for women in North Carolina and across our country. He has helped women fight for equal pay for equal work; he has fought to guarantee that women have access to quality, affordable health care, including making sure that insurance plans cover birth control with no out-of-pocket cost. Bev Perdue
I have always stood up to protect women’s access to safe and legal abortion, birth control and health care at Planned Parenthood. Kirsten Gillibrand
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