Birth Quote by Beth Bailey

The acceptability of birth control has always depended on a morality that separates sex from reproduction. In the nineteenth century, when the birth control…

— Linda Gordon

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

— Cecile Richards

“The Pill was introduced in the early 1960s and modern woman was born. Women were no longer going to be tied to the cycle…

— Jennifer Worth

“The idea of women having sex without risking pregnancy is deeply disturbing to the vision of women's role that Western civilization has inherited from…

— Jack Holland

When birth control pills were available in Europe but not in the United States, American women created an uproar about how the unwillingness to…

— Warren Farrell

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

— Dick Durbin

The state has a right to do that [outlaw contraceptives], I have never questioned that the state has a right to do that. It…

— Rick Santorum

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

— Walter Lippmann

In the United States, there's definitely some controversy about birth control in general, and I think we needed to split the debate and have…

— Melinda Gates

Birth Control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society, and…

— Margaret Sanger

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…

— Bill Gates

Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood.

— Mahatma Gandhi