Joanna Coles Quotes

Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.

We're more effective than birth control pills.

Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.

The Methodist Church believes that responsible contraception is a welcome means towards fulfillment in marriage, the spacing of children, and the need to avoid pregnancy altogether, for example for medical reasons.

I don't believe in birth control.

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

The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently.

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

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

Bottom line: Contraception does not reduce abortion.

Contraception has to be available for anybody who needs it.

You make me wish that birth control was retroactive.

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.

Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil.

The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.

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.

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

Is it a recent occurrence that women have tried to control when and if they reproduced? Absolutely not. By 2000 B.C., there was worldwide use of herbal potions to prevent pregnancy. Condoms were made from animal bladders.

Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.

I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.

If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies.

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

The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.

My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young.