quotations about birth control
Although every organized patriarchal religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of mysogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil, the Roman Catholic Church also carries the immense power of very directly affecting women’s lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion, and by its use of skillful and wealthy lobbies to prevent legislative change. It is an obscenity--an all-male hierarchy, celibate or not, that presumes to rule on the lives and bodies of millions of women.
ROBIN MORGAN
Sisterhood Is Powerful
Impotence and sodomy are socially O.K. but birth control is flagrantly middle-class.
EVELYN WAUGH
Noblesse Oblige
When mom found my diaphragm, I told her it was a bathing cap for my cat.
LIZZ WINSTEAD
attributed, The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes
The regulation of births, which is an aspect of responsible fatherhood and motherhood, is objectively morally acceptable when it is pursued by the spouses without external pressure; when it is practiced not out of selfishness but for serious reasons; and with methods that conform to the objective criteria of morality, that is, periodic continence and use of the infertile periods.
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church
The thought of getting pregnant again is terrific birth control.
BETHANY LOPEZ
Indelible
More troubling than this oddly timed debate about birth control is the vehemence with which women need to justify or explain why they take birth control--health reasons, to regulate periods, you know, as if there's anything wrong with taking birth control simply because you want to have sex without that sex resulting in pregnancy.
ROXANE GAY
Bad Feminist