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For the future. For the unborn.
there really were some babies who were better off not being born. Like
A woman is never free to bear a child unless she is also free to abort it.
Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they will go.
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
You might not have thought it possible to give birth to others before one has given birth to oneself, but I assure you it is quite possible, it has been done; I offer myself in evidence as Exhibit A.
Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility.
When I was pregnant with Future, one thing I learned quickly was, don't ever let a pregnant lady be hungry, because when I was, I was like the Tasmanian Devil!
Accepting and walking in a good counsel paves way for the unborn generation
Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.
I am reminded of yet one more reason why I avoid children, why I have remained intentionally childless. Children make ruthless biographers and terrifying judges.
There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.
Parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences.
I could see myself adopting a kid someday. But, obviously, I'd prefer it to be aborted.
Limiting birth by artificial means is an absurdly wrong step. The consequences of this act are irresponsible fatherhood or frustrated motherhood.
Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.
We must not be so concerned with the unborn that we fail to pay attention to the born.
Beware of what you teach your children in the womb.
The act of choosing whether or not to have a child is often an act of love, and always an act of survival.
Why contraception is not only wrong but sacrilegious:
It wasn't a conscious effort to have kids later. It was just the way life goes.
I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.
A woman relinquishes her unfettered right to control her own body when her actions cause the conception of a baby
You've got to keep the child alive; you can't create without it.
I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no babies!
A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.
When it's not enough to veto your children's tendencies, you must in vitro them.
Today we tell girls to grow up to be or do whatever they want. But the cultural pressure to become a mother remains very strong; rare is she who doesn't at least occasionally succumb to the nagging fear that if she remains childless, she'll live to regret it.
the wild velocity of motherhood, an enforced momentum forbidding contemplation.
know that neither to have the child nor not to have the child is without the possibility of tragic consequences for everybody yet (b) be brave in knowing also that not even that can put us beyond the forgiving love of God.
I'm not adopting a baby.
Of children as of procreation
the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable
People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.
When men and women produce a baby together for the first time, it's an absolute festival of mutual incompetence.
From The Wife Drought
We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.
For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and morbidity rates, and their children are more likely to die in infancy.
A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings.
When your eyes are fixed on the horizon of eternity, it affects your vision for motherhood.
Right now being born a girl is to be born threatened ...
These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
I've protected my protracted period of infancy. For many years. And I have no desire to become an adult.
Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure
When long delay has given the evil strength.
Haste then; postpone not to the coming hour: tomorrow
He'll be less ready who's not ready now.
Infants have their infancy; adults, adultery.
Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place.
Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and unashamed on behalf of her offspring.
Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn.
Belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager vitality postpone the unenterprising cautions and timidities of middle age.
I'm trying to avoid, you know, guilt, even though before the child is born, you're already thinking you're doing things wrong ... Why do I think that will probably carry over until the day you die?
The whole world is in the throes of a new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion.
The end of parenthood is implicit in its beginning: separation.
You mistake patience for forbearance.
The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not.
Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
What keeps you from ... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy?
There are generations yet unborn,
whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take.
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder, and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
Tread softly upon the earth because the faces of the unborn look up at you.
If you are waiting to gain power to do something; then there is no difference between you and an unborn child.
Your lifelong rebellion against all forms of authority stems from the infant's desire to murder the father and possess the mother.
We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.
first reaction to the indescribable, stupid, and undignified procedure required for procreation had been disappointment...
It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.
Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making ...
Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.
Mistrust of good success hath done this deed.
O hateful error, Melancholy's child,
Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men
The things that are not? O Error, soon concieved,
Thou never com'st unto a happy birth,
But kill'st the mother that engendered thee.
Any references to pregnancy or childbirth are coarse, and should be carefully side-stepped by the truly well-bred, as should intrusive comments on love-affairs.
Having a child, I thought, was something you should actively want, crave, even. It was not a venture for the ambivalent or passionless.
To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.
The parent must not give in to his desire to try to create the child he would like to have, but rather help the child to develop
in his own good time
to the fullest, into what he wishes to be and can be, in line with his natural endowment and as the consequence of his unique life in history.
Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
For far too many, pregnancy and birth is still something that happens to them rather than something they set out consciously and joyfully to do themselves
We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.
Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.
Which is worse, Risa often wondered, to have tens of thousands of babies that no one wanted or to silently make then go away before they were even born
Our unborn never got to grow, never got to see what's, next, In this world full of countless threats.
It's unfortunate that your offspring make people wish for a dystopian future in which euthanasia is a universally beloved form of birth control, but when elderly women literally everywhere are better parents than you, perhaps it's time to hang up the baby-making spurs.
Here I am thirty-four years old, and yet my life is almost wholly unexpanded. How much time is in the germ! There is such an interval between my ideal and the actual in many circumstances that I may say I am unborn.
When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point has come.
the future gives birth to the present
May our zeal against abortion be matched by our zeal for adoption.
Having a baby is part of a woman's life, and it is surely a great waste to be afraid of life.
You won't be expecting forever, Annwyl. And once the twins are
here, you'll be as violently cruel and madly bloodthirsty as you always
were."
"Now you're just trying to make me feel better."
"Is it working?"
"A little.
And much like the despairity of the woman who can never bear children, my dreams can never bear fruit. They are the mountains I can never climb.
The hurdles I can never leap.
The seas I can never cross.
The skies I can never look up to.
Yet, I adopt them.
Unblemished.
Guilt-free.
Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.
Temper your future actions.
Though I suppose people do reproduce sometimes for that reason - for insurance against later regret.
Postponement: The father of failure.
Babies are born because parents feel they themselves are not enough. So, parents, never condemn us for trying to fill our existential holes, when we are but the fruit of your own vain attempts to fill yours.
Procreation has little to do with your needs; it has everything to do with the child's needs.
Forbearance is a maiden's worst enemy. If you're happy, that's all that counts.
What is the use of a new-born child ?
All birth is unwilling.
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
If I had had the power to prevent my own birth I should certainly never have consented to accept existence under such ridiculous conditions.
Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.
I, woman, give birth: and this time to myself.
Our mistakes would not wish for anything more, if we could just stop giving birth to them.
I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That is some type of gestation period.
Parthenogenesis means never having your mother tell you to stop doing that or you'll go blind.