Contraceptives Quote by Richard Dawkins

“Leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods express a preference for "natural" methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation.” quote by Richard Dawkins — Download Open image

“Leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods express a preference for "natural" methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation.”

Richard Dawkins

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Kids should be taught about sex, sex hygiene and contraceptive methods starting in the sixth grade, and whenever they want to try it, they should be allowed to go at it without supervision or restriction -in their parents' bedroom, on the grass in a park, in a motel; it doesn't matter, as long as the setting is private and pleasant.…

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The best contraceptive in the world is a good education.

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The world would be a healthier place if oral contraceptives were available in every corner store and cigarettes were limited to prescription use.

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The greatest contraceptive one can have in the developing world is the knowledge that your children will live

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I have been around conservatives my entire life. I have never met a single human being, in any place, who wanted to ban contraceptives.

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Now we just really need to do the work, which we're doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.

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Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil.

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Fundamentalism is rigorously and systematically used to indoctrinate and subjugate young minds. It is a contraceptive designed to prevent intellectual fertilization.

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