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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.Karen DeCrow
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So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? It's like we woke up in a bad episode of 'Mad Men.'Cecile Richards
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Natural Family Planning works and is as effective, and sometimes more effective, than the birth control methods out there.Abby Johnson
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I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance.Rima Fakih
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For millions of women, birth control represents personal freedom and the ability to make choices over their own bodies. Now it's time that insurance companies step up - I believe no one should be denied access to birth control because they can't afford it.Josh Shapiro
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Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups.Madeleine M. Kunin
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Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.Evel Knievel
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We'd certainly have paid leave already by now, we'd have equal pay, we'd have a living minimum wage - a lot of things would change having that diversity of opinion in Washington. We certainly wouldn't be debating whether women should have access to birth control.Kirsten Gillibrand
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If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren't listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up.Michelle Malkin
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The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion.Robin Morgan
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I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.Harri Holkeri
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The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.Tom DeLay
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The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug.Patty Murray
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There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has already come into existence, I haven't found any.Kathy Ireland
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Real Texans don't want any woman to die of cancer because she can't get decent health care or medical advice. Real Texans don't want any woman to lose control of her life because she can't get birth control.Wendy Davis
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If the Democrats want to insult women by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it.Mike Huckabee
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How did abortion and birth control impact the congressional race of Dan Maffei and Ann Marie Buerkle or the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney? I don't know. But I think the so-called social issues were front and center in the minds of voters. These issues may indeed have lost the Republicans some elections.Karen DeCrow
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We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I think that is the most ethical way to reduce our population.Christian de Duve
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.Katha Pollitt
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The GOP wants to cut funding for birth control, place undue burdens on clinics that serve low income women and families, and defund Planned Parenthood.Deb Haaland
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Personally, I'd be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their grandparents would find themselves on the same side.Gail Collins
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If you want to truly stand up for women's reproductive rights, then stand against birth control. Because nothing says anti-woman more than birth control.Abby Johnson
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Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.Cecile Richards
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As I say, I can't wait until Congress - half of Congress can get pregnant so we can quit fighting about birth control and Planned Parenthood.Cecile Richards
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Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.Brooke Shields
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.Karen Bender
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My father was Catholic, my mom Baptist, so we were raised Baptist but had a lot of Catholic upbringing: fish on Fridays, no birth control.Dennis Haysbert
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Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.Dora Russell
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It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive.Charles Erwin Wilson
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It is essential that the women's preventive coverage benefit, including contraception, be available to all women, regardless of what health plan they have or where they work - as Congress intended. Providing access to birth control just makes good sense.Gwen Moore
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I have said that I am in favor of personhood as a concept. I am not taking a position on any of the state amendments, and I have said over and over again - and it has been reported over and over again - that I am not in favor of banning any common forms of birth control in Colorado or in the United States.Ken Buck
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Thanks to health reform, women across the country with private insurance can get birth control without paying out of pocket. This lets women make the health care decisions that are right for them and puts every one of us in charge of our own reproductive health.Ann McLane Kuster
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Libido is a normal part of being human. Nothing scandalous about it. But without it, in either women or men, would there be a demand for birth control?Mike Huckabee
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In my opinion, the battles over birth control and Planned Parenthood are primarily neither political nor religious. This is an issue of equality for women. This is an issue of women's rights: Planned Parenthood is the most important private provider of reproductive health care for women in the United States.Karen DeCrow
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Couples without kids have each other, their friends, families, and Siri to talk to. It's not like they're quarantining themselves in an underground bunker, never to take a romantic stroll on the beach or attend a Morrissey concert ever again. They're just using birth control.Jen Kirkman
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The animal birth control and anti-rabies programmes, which are under the threat of being altered or discontinued, need to be strengthened in order to address the issue of the stray dog menace.Amala Akkineni
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Whether we are talking about access to affordable birth control, feeling safe from violence in our homes, or being able to earn the same amount of money as our male counterparts, these are rights that all people deserve, and they are being threatened.Ann McLane Kuster
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I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.Muriel Spark
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Absolutely. It's something I'd eventually love. In the meantime, I just borrow all my friends' kids. It's seriously the best birth control in the world. I'm so tired afterward, I'm like, Okay, maybe in another two years.Sarah Michelle Gellar
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One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice.William P. Leahy
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We know that the way to decrease unplanned pregnancies and abortions is to make birth control and family planning services accessible and affordable, not micromanage the type of medical information and reproductive health counseling that women around the world receive.Jeanne Shaheen
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The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection - along with giving an employer permission to ask for medical records showing why a woman is taking birth control - opens up a set of problems that I'm sure its sponsors have not fully considered.Richard Carmona
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Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.Freddy Fender
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Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.Roseanne Barr
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President Obama is also standing up for women in North Carolina and across our country. He has helped women fight for equal pay for equal work; he has fought to guarantee that women have access to quality, affordable health care, including making sure that insurance plans cover birth control with no out-of-pocket cost.Bev Perdue
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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.Morena Baccarin
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For Democrats to reduce women to beggars for cheap government-funded birth control is demeaning to the women that I know who are far more complicated than their libido and the management of their reproductive system.Mike Huckabee
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