{"quotes":[{"text":"Whenever governments wanted to achieve some end, often involving population growth, they restricted access to birth control and/or criminalized birth control unless, of course, the population growth concerned the poor, in which case, contraception was enthusiastically promoted. Historically, society has only wanted the 'right kind of people' to have a right to life. We shouldn't forget that fact.","author":"Roxane Gay","tags":["birth-control","government","poverty"],"id":31653,"author_id":"Roxane+Gay"},{"text":"Religious freedom doesn't include the freedom to disregard the law and restrict another's freedom to believe and act differently. No one's forcing Catholic nuns to practice birth control, or priests to wear condoms (good idea tho). If you really feel your religious beliefs conflict with the mandates of running a business, the solution is simple: Get your ass out of the boardroom and back to the pulpit (where it belongs).","author":"Quentin R. Bufogle","tags":["atheism","birth-control","catholicism","hypocrisy","religious-freedom"],"id":110357,"author_id":"Quentin+R.+Bufogle"},{"text":"Patriarchy is women structuring lifelong decisions around men they haven't met.","author":"Maggie Georgiana Young","tags":["birth-control","feminism","feminist-","feminist-","feminist-","feminist","maggie-young","motherhood","tie-tubes"],"id":110511,"author_id":"Maggie+Georgiana+Young"},{"text":"Every day we are reborn.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["birth","birth-control","birth-mother","birthday-present","birthday","birthdays","daily","daily-life","daily-living","daily","life-and-living","life-philosophy","parental-love","parenting-advice","parents-and-children","rebirth","reborn"],"id":228750,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"We are now dealing with a bizarre new morality where a woman cannot simply say, in one way or another, 'I'm on the pill because I like dick.","author":"Roxane Gay","tags":["birth-control","feminism","feminist","womens-rights"],"id":233235,"author_id":"Roxane+Gay"},{"text":"The human race is all the same when it comes to romantic relations,' said the Major. 'A startling absence of impulse control combined with complete myopia.","author":"Helen Simonson","tags":["birth-control","humor","love","romance"],"id":238798,"author_id":"Helen+Simonson"},{"text":"Isn’t it wonderful to give birth to your own kind?","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["birth-control","birthday","birthday","childbirth","creation","delivery","giving-birth","parent-love","parenting","parents-and-children","pregnancy-humor","pregnancy","pregnant-women","women"],"id":263382,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Perhaps the greatest importance of the family, in these days of contraceptives, is that it preserves the habit of having children.","author":"Bertrand Russell","tags":["birth-control","children","contraception","family"],"id":290320,"author_id":"Bertrand+Russell"},{"text":"This may be a thing you neither want nor need,' she said. 'But I'd rather you have it, wishing didn't, than not have it and wish you did.","author":"Kristin Cashore","tags":["birth-control","need","want"],"id":314360,"author_id":"Kristin+Cashore"},{"text":"You see, they were Mothers, not in our sense of helpless involuntary fecundity, forced to fill and overfill the land, every land, and then see their children suffer, sin, and die, fighting horribly with one another; but in the sense of Conscious Makers of People.","author":"Charlotte Perkins Gilman","tags":["birth-control","feminism"],"id":398470,"author_id":"Charlotte+Perkins+Gilman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}