quote by Julius Nyerere

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

— Julius Nyerere

Eye-opening Contraception quotations

Have you noticed that all the people in favor of birth control are already born?

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

Contraceptive methods are like putting a premium on vice.

It makes men and women reckless... As it is, man has sufficiently degraded woman for his lust, and [contraception] , no matter how well meaning the advocates may be, will still further degrade her.

Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.

Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily.

The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.

Birth Control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced.

It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extirpation of defective stocks — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.

Attacking me and women who use contraception by calling us prostitutes and worse cannot silence us.

If you want to prevent abortions, you make sure everyone has health care, a high school education and birth control. Not the exact opposite.

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.

Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus.

Nothing about contraception should be taught in schools.

There is no question that it will encourage sexual activity.

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception.

I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.

Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that women need to be as little chaste as pagans thought men need be.

The persistent advocates of contraceptive-style sex education have become more and more resourceful in using taxpayer funds to impose their casual-sex attitudes and explicit-sex instruction on other people's children.

We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren't enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.

When I look at 225 million women who want contraceptives, and then I look at the 52 million unintended pregnancies that could be avoided by addressing this unmet need, where can we have the biggest impact with our voice, our dollars, our partners? It's on contraceptives. I would rather address the problem upstream.

Now that we all agree contraception is a bad idea, let's take a harder look at electricity and soap.

Our brains are separate and independent enough from our genes to rebel against them.. we do so in a small way everytime we use contraception. There is no reason why we should not rebel in a large way too.

It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola.

The best contraceptive in the world is a good education.

Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain;

the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.

Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves.

Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.

Contraception leads to more babies being born out of wedlock, like fire extinguishers lead to more fires.

It is apparent that nothing short of contraceptives can put an end to the horrors of abortion and infanticide.

In 1985, I was living with my sister in Virginia, and since I was still in high school, I worked at McDonald's to save money to get an abortion. It sounds really terrible, but it was the best decision I ever made. It was the first time I took responsibility for my actions. I messed up, had sex without contraception, and got pregnant at 15.

Going to rehab was the best decision I ever made.

The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.

You know, back in my days they used Bayer aspirin for contraception.

The gals put it between their knees and it wasn't that costly.

Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.

One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country.

It is common sense that when women are able to plan their pregnancies, populations grow more slowly and as a result so do greenhouse gas emissions. Providing access to contraception and preventative health should be one of the many effective strategies used to fight climate change.