Abstinence Quote by Kerry Healey

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

— Phyllis Schlafly

Abstinence is practical and very realistic for some people, but others dont choose that path. For me, sex education was in school, and there…

— Bristol Palin

I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.

— Joycelyn Elders

The evidence does not support abstinence-only interventions as the best way to keep young people from unintended pregnancy.

— Jonathan Klein

[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.

— Queen Victoria

Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised.

— Rachel Maddow

There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them.…

— Hillary Clinton

“A 2005 survey of 12,000 adolescents found that those who had pledged to remain abstinent until marriage were more likely to have oral and…

— Christopher Ryan

Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion.

— John Tillotson

We have sex education - I'm for it, I'm not against it. But any curriculum should recognize that it's young people's job to invent…

— Bill Ayers

Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.

— Bill Nye

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even…

— Mark Twain