Parenting Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“Fertility is seen as a female ‘problem’; whether discouraged or enforced by the vagaries of political, demographic and cultural decisions, it must be kept…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“But if the history of women’s reproductive health demonstrates anything, it is that coercive policies are not only inhumane and unethical, they also fail…

— Johanna Schoen

“new forms of contraception, new methods of child rearing, and new forms of education and public welfare have provoked a fundamental renegotiation of gender…

— David Christian

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

We need to realize that a society in which contraceptives are widely used is going to have a very difficult time keeping free of…

— Janet E. Smith

Is it a democratic society that condemns people to the accident of conception? What are we-monkeys? If you expect people to be responsible for…

— John Irving

As an advocate of birth control I wish to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,'…

— Margaret Sanger

“And as regards contraceptives, there is a paradoxical, negative sense in which all possible future generations are the patients or subjects of a power…

— C.S. Lewis

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

— Walter Lippmann

My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Population control is not an issue involving contraceptives for third world women. It is an issue of ecological justice.

— Vandana Shiva

Planned parenthood" in the social history of the Western countries is, indeed, a phenomenon instrin-sically related to those very changes in peoples attitudes which,…

— Gunnar Myrdal