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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. – H.L. Mencken, Notebooks, 1956

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It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola. – Clare Short

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Familiarity breeds contempt — and children. – Mark Twain, Notebooks, 1935

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We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. – Dora Winifred Black Russell

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

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