Quotes from Mary Calderone

Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.

Abortion is the taking of a life.

Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.

I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.

We have yet to beat our drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine. We are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics, even though this is the exact truth.