“When modern woman discovered the orgasm, it was, combined with modern birth control, perhaps the biggest single nail in the coffin of male dominance.”
Eva Figes
“It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry”
Henry Louis Mencken
“While women need the right to birth control and abortion, we also need to be able to have and raise children, and that means equal opportunity, good jobs and equal pay.”
John Ashcroft
“We have known for a long time that 30 to 40 percent of women on birth control pills have decreased libido.”
Dr. Andre Guay
“There's evidence that women may switch methods of birth control or stop using the pill because they think it contributes to weight gain.”
Laureen Lopez
“What's more important? Life after death or birth control? What is more important? God's forgiving love or premarital sex?”
Andrew Greeley
“I think it's very good news, ... The number one question women have asked about (birth control pills) since 1960 is do they cause cancer. This study shows there is no long-term risk.”
Robert Hatcher