Lenny Bruce Quotes

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.

I'm not being like, 'Hey, everybody, I'm pregnant!' I'm not that girl.

I want guys out there to think when they are in the magic moment of lovemaking that if this woman gets pregnant, I'm going to be on a financial hook for the rest of my life.

A woman should pay the price for unplanned pregnancy. When the woman lays with a man, she has made her choice. Sexual intercourse isn't all fun and games.

Do men drop out of college because they get someone pregnant? Do they quit their job if they get someone pregnant? No. And we do not require men to support women they have made pregnant. Once the baby is born, there can be child support. Before that, though, no.

Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not, then it is simply animal and criminal behavior.

I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.

Most creative thing I've ever done? Got somebody pregnant.

If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support... autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.

Just because you can have a baby, it doesn't mean you should. Especially without planning for one or getting married first.

Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.

We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

Looking at someone in a deployed setting, it's not in their best interest to get pregnant overseas, but if it happens, it happens.

The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently.

I have twins that I didn't want to have the life that I had. I didn't have a great life growing up.

No one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child.

I would like to make every child born in America a planned, wanted child.

A no-win situation .... No one wants anyone they know to have an abortion, or to have an unwanted pregnancy. What we had to find was the least bad solution for the most women.

I say that this is a dirty, filthy book, and the test of it is that no human being would allow that book on his table, no decently educated English husband would allow even his wife to have it…the object of it is to enable a person to have sexual intercourse, and not to have that which in the order of Providence is the natural result of that sexual intercourse. That is the only purpose of the book and all the instruction in the other parts of the book leads up to that proposition.

Abortion is part of being a mother and of caring for children, because part of caring for children is knowing when it is not a good idea to bring them into the world.

Children when irregularly produced are a cause of great inconvenience.

In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.

I think the meaning of abortion is what the woman says it is: For a woman who wants a child but can't have this one, it can be sad; for a woman who doesn't want a baby, it can feel like a huge relief, like having your whole life given back to you.

I had three abortions because I was certain that it would be a disaster for my work.