Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration…

“Helmut thought himself above common morality. Or perhaps he thought he’d managed to create his own, different from ours, better.”

— Donna Leon

“One can even buy a so-called Religion, which is really but common morality sanctified with flowers and music. Rob the Church of her accessories…

— Kakuzō Okakura

It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society…

— Germaine Greer

Progressives should recognize common morality with religion.

— Barack Obama

Even if it is true that all cultures share a common morality, why does this prove a supreme intelligence? After all, don't we humanists…

— Dan Barker

Women should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children...If a woman grows weary and, at last, dies from…

— Martin Luther

Childbearing is the most consistent of human events. Male and female alike, we have all been gestated inside a woman's body. As a phenomenon,…

— Joan Raphael-Leff

No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.

— Margaret Sanger

By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity,…

— Margaret Sanger

“[The Spartans] ordered the maidens to exercise themselves with wrestling, running, throwing the quoit, and casting the dart, to the end that the fruit…

— Plutarch

Feminism is really the right of women to be full human beings and to not be defined only by their childbearing function. Feminism is…

— Erica Jong

In my practice, the majority of mutation carriers choose mastectomy; however, for those without cancer, they have much more control over the timing. For…

— Kristi Funk

“When Dr. James Young Simpson sought to apply anesthesia to a woman in childbirth, the clergymen of his day foamed at the mouth and…

— Joseph Lewis

It had never occurred to him that the body of a woman of fifty, blown up to monstrous dimensions by childbearing, then hardened, roughened…

— George Orwell

Ninety-eight percent of women in childbearing age who are Catholic use contraception. Ok, so in practice the church has not enforced this and now…

— Nancy Pelosi