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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

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.

— Cecile Richards

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

I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance.

— Rima Fakih

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

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

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

The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug.

— Patty Murray

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

I do not support legislation that would ban birth control.

— Cory Gardner

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