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The public likes to think that women only care about contraception. -- Nikki Haley
Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint. -- Richard Carmona
For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity. -- Louise Slaughter
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. -- Julie Burchill
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. -- Dora Russell
Contraception doesn't define a woman. -- Nikki Haley
You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion. -- Hillary Clinton
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. -- Felicity Huffman
Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily. -- Mother Teresa
Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school, -- Sandra Fluke
Contraception contradicts the full truth of the sexual act as the proper expression of conjugal love. -- Pope John Paul II
Attacking me and women who use contraception by calling us prostitutes and worse cannot silence us, -- Sandra Fluke
Contraception leads to more babies being born out of wedlock, like fire extinguishers lead to more fires. -- Stephen Colbert
It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices. -- Linda Lingle
I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices -- Sharron Angle
I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices. -- Sharron Angle
I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No. -- Woody Allen
Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood. -- Felicity Huffman
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. -- Foster Friess
Thanks to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, preventive care services, including contraception, will be covered by private insurance plans without co-pays or deductibles. -- Sandra Fluke
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. -- Rick Santorum
It's not about contraception. It's about economic liberty, it's about freedom of speech, it's about freedom of religion, it's about government control of your lives and it's got to stop! -- Rick Santorum
A fast word about oral contraception. I was involved in an extremely good example of oral contraception two weeks ago. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said 'no'. -- Woody Allen
I have received so many messages of support from across the country - women and men speaking out because they agree that contraception needs to be treated as a basic health care service. -- Sandra Fluke
I was proud to share the stories of my friends at Georgetown Law who have suffered dire medical consequences because our student insurance does not cover contraception for the purpose of preventing pregnancy. -- Sandra Fluke
I think we're at a place wherea woman's health is danger because of whether this family planning or contraception or any issues that relate to women's health, there's an assault on that in the Congress. -- Barack Obama
I think it's really important to enlarge the issue behind abortion. I have been serving for over two decades and I have seen year in and year out largely the Republicans voting against women's contraception, family planning. -- Barack Obama
And under Obamacare, insurance companies can no longer discriminate against women. Before, some wouldn't cover women's most basic needs, like contraception and maternity care, but would still charge us up to 50 percent more than men - for a worse plan. -- Kathleen Sebelius
It is essential that the women's preventive coverage benefit, including contraception, be available to all women, regardless of what health plan they have or where they work - as Congress intended. Providing access to birth control just makes good sense. -- Gwen Moore
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. -- Mahatma Gandhi
By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark this: The Republicans did not have a single woman to testify in support of the contraception mandate. That is not a hearing; that is a sham. -- Felicity Huffman
The final end of abortion in America will come when every human being begins to appreciate his own life as a gift from God and the lives of those entrusted to his care as the true blessings they are. A culture that affirms life will not practice contraception nor will it murder its progeny. -- Judie Brown
From the very beginning the president [of USA] had two very important principles that had to be reconciled. One principle is that every woman should have the right to all forms of preventive health care, including contraception. The other is that we need to respect the religious liberties which are the cornerstone of American life. -- Jacob Lew
If we're going to make progress on this issue [of contraception], we have to be really clear about what our agenda is. We're not talking about abortion. We're not talking about population control. What I'm talking about is giving women the power to save their lives, to save their children's lives and to give their families the best possible future. -- Melinda Gates
I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me. -- Foster Friess
I'm pro-responsible choice. There is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kind of good choices. -- Sharron Angle
Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception. -- Al Franken
The truth is that contraception saves lives, prevents unplanned pregnancies, improves outcomes for children and reduces the number of abortions. -- Ann McLane Kuster
For the record, I believe that women and their doctors should have access to oral contraception when desired by the patient and medically appropriate. -- Ami Bera
The Obamacare contraception mandate was never about freedom. It was always about pitting secularism against religion, and using the power of government to sponsor secularism. -- Ben Shapiro
Think for a moment about what Obamacare has done: The federal government has come up with its own (ever-evolving) definition of 'health insurance,' which now includes free access to sterilization, contraception, and certain abortifacients such as the morning-after pill. -- John Cornyn
There was a time when researchers imagined that Plan B, or the morning-after pill, might become not an emergency form of contraception but a routine one; women would take it once a month to induce a period and never even know whether they had gotten pregnant. -- Nancy Gibbs
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. -- Kathleen Hanna
Personal Assault and Battery breeds with no contraception a hateful vengeance for others; A sexual nature that is methodically breeding one's intolerance of Self -- Rosemarie Yusen
What I want is much more complicated. I want somebody I can talk to about books, who would be my friend, and why couldn't we have sex as well if we wanted to? (And used contraception.) -- Jo Walton
Now that children don't till your fields or take you in when you're incontinent, there is no sensible reason to have them, and it's amazing that with the advent of effective contraception anyone chooses to reproduce at all. -- Lionel Shriver
The Irish people didn't get on that well with each other either. They hated the Catholics, was the main issue, as I see. You can't blame them for that. If I understand correctly, Catholics do not believe in contraception. So, you know, sex is not relaxing. -- Jaclyn Moriarty
Think your mother will let me drive you to school tomorrow? Now that we're all friends and united by a belief in the careful use of contraception?"My cheeks burn, the memory of my mother's mortifying behavior distracting me for a moment"Yes," I mumble"I think so. -- Stacey Jay
Whether it appears in a story about a man killing his girlfriend while calling her a whore or in trying to battle conservative claims that emergency contraception or the HPV vaccine will make girls promiscuous, the purity myth in America underlies more misogyny than most people would like to admit -- Jessica Valenti
Amberley never did that, at the end," she told him, her fingers playing in the hair on his chest.Gideon grinned suddenly at the reference to his last-second withdrawal"It's the coffeehouse method of contraception.""Coffeehouse?""You go in and out without ever spending anything," he explained, and she pushed against him with a muffled laugh... -- Lisa Kleypas
What some men don't understand is that by opposing policies to reduce violence, promote equal pay and universal healthcare and voting to limit access to contraception and legal abortion, they are relegating women to another century, a time when men ruled exclusively and women were considered property and had to be guided by a firm masculine hand. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
There is no known device for artistic contraception. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
Don't jump down - folks, contraception in the Catholic Church is a thing. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Don't jump down - folks, contraception in the Catholic Church is a thing. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
If one is willing to have children, rhythm is probably the best method of contraception. -- Elizabeth Hawes
I would like to outlaw contraception... contraception is disgusting - people using each other for pleasure. -- Joseph Scheidler
As people turn to contraception, there will be a rise, not a fall, in the abortion rate. -- Malcolm Potts
Most republicans are against contraception because they don't care about it. You can't get pregnant anally anyway. -- Chelsea Handler
Didn't we settle contraception & affirmative action? If the GOP keep going backwards they'll soon be debating slavery. -- Andy Borowitz
Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology. -- Max Perutz
Nothing about contraception should be taught in schools. There is no question that it will encourage sexual activity. -- Phyllis Schlafly
Rick Santorum has come out against contraception and against college. He wants us literally to be f**king stupid. -- Bill Maher
Now that we all agree contraception is a bad idea, let's take a harder look at electricity and soap. -- Andy Borowitz
Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus. -- Dana Gould
I am all for contraception. And I am all for preventative measures that are legal and safe, and should be taken. -- Sarah Palin
Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves. -- Tim Kaine
It is entirely possible that Limbaugh himself never needed contraception in college, but virtue in the absence of opportunity is hardly a moral triumph. -- Kathleen Parker
The power of the state stops at our skins. They can't restrict contraception [or] abortion. They can't take our kidneys. Bodily integrity is a principle. -- Gloria Steinem
You think the pope is mad that [Donald] Trump said Two Corinthians instead of "second"? Get this. Pope Francis just said that contraception can be justified now. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
You think the pope is mad that [Donald] Trump said Two Corinthians instead of "second"? Get this. Pope Francis just said that contraception can be justified now. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The reduction in a number of pregnancies is - compensates for the cost of contraception. ... Providing contraception as a critical preventive health benefit for women and for their children reduces health care. -- Kathleen Sebelius
The belief that women should control our own bodies may be a majority belief, but the minority that believes otherwise is against not only safe and legal abortions but contraception and even sex education. -- Gloria Steinem

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