Richelle Mead Quotes

Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.

… any occasion when contraceptives and public policy overlap seems to be an excuse to fight about other issues—abortion or the meaning of religious freedom, for instance. But the fact is that literally 99 percent of women in the United States who have had sex, use birth control at some point in their lives.

Contraception has to be available for anybody who needs it.

Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.

Children are wonderful. It don't take plenty y'know. Just a nice girl who don't take birth control. Sexual intercourse is a lovely thing.

Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race.

The fact that 98 percent of women in [the U.S.] who are sexually experienced say they use birth control doesn't make sex any less sacred. It just means that they're getting to make choices about their lives.

Don't confuse the evil of avoiding pregnancy by itself, with abortion.

Contraception contradicts the full truth of the sexual act as the proper expression of conjugal love.

We have yet to beat our drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine. We are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics, even though this is the exact truth.

Sex is still the leading cause of pregnancy.

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'.

If you want to see a man come to his senses, try something like, Do you happen to carry a rubber in your wallet? Did I mention I'm not on the pill?

The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.

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

Did you ever notice that everyone in favour of birth control has already been born ?

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.

Many people are horrified at the idea of birth control. . . . It is simply the keynote of a new moral program.

Rick Santorum doesn't like sex. He doesn't like the pill. He really doesn't like condoms. He said if men are going to pull something on to prevent procreation, nothing works better that a sweater vest.

Natural Family Planning works and is as effective, and sometimes more effective, than the birth control methods out there.

Ninety-eight percent of women in childbearing age who are Catholic use contraception. Ok, so in practice the church has not enforced this and now they want the federal government and private insurance to enforce it. It just isn't consistent to me.

The world teaches birth control. Tragically, many of our sisters subscribe to its pills and practices when they could easily provide earthly tabernacles for more of our Father's children. We know that every spirit assigned to this earth will come, whether through us or someone else. There are couples in the Church who think they are getting along just fine with their limited families but who will someday suffer the pains of remorse when they meet the spirits that might have been part of their posterity.

My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.

With every kind of birth control available in the world, abortion is not something to be proud of. If you need an abortion, you've failed.