Ruth Westheimer Quotes

The U. S. Agency for International Development has found that in every nation where information about contraception and access to methods of birth control are available, abortion rates decline

Thoughtful education programs and access to effective forms of contraception are key to preventing unplanned pregnancy.

Bottom line: Contraception does not reduce abortion.

Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.

One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.

The truth is that contraception saves lives, prevents unplanned pregnancies, improves outcomes for children and reduces the number of abortions.

Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for abortion.

Facts have never made any difference to birth control opponents, because in their minds, the use of contraceptives is itself irresponsible and immoral.

Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.

Contraception is a couple's issue.

We know the risks of birth control, and yet we continue to pump it into our system as if we have no choice.

It is clear that Americans have a right to birth control.

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.

Every era in history has needed, and will need, reproductive health services.

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.

Contraception really shouldn't be all that controversial because it's a tool a woman can use to delay her first birth until she's, say, 18 or 19 years old.

I'll protect and expand access to no-copay birth control and safe, legal abortion.

Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.

I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices.

Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program.

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.

We're more effective than birth control pills.

Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.

My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.