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.

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.

More troubling than this oddly timed debate about birth control is the vehemence with which women need to justify or explain why they take birth control— health reasons, to regulate periods, you know, as if there's anything wrong with taking birth control simply because you want to have sex without that sex resulting in pregnancy.

Perhaps the greatest importance of the family, in these days of contraceptives, is that it preserves the habit of having children.

The pills were ethical because they didn't interfere with a person's ability to reproduce, which would have been unnatural and immoral. All the pills did was take every bit of pleasure out of sex.

At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: Yes, the Bible says Be fruitful and multiply, but that was when the population was two per square world.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.