“The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.” ChildrenImportantAbortionControversyStanceProcreation Author:Leon Kass
“Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood.” GivingPleasureForeverEventsFiguresHusbandCloudsMoodUncertaintyCharmPregnancySpoilProcreationChildbearing Author:Marquis de Sade
“Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children.” ChildrenMadeSoulEndsCertainOrderSexSinDangerousCircumstancesHolyProveSickMortalsPrimariesProportionExcessProfitableViolationIntercourseDeparturePerversionPraiseworthyProcreationMortal Sin Author:Saint Francis de Sales
“I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti.” IfsWayShouldMightYoungThreeGroupsProduceMonthsBirthPressureVictimMereSpeciesConvincedDiscriminationImpulseWealthyNervesLackingConsentPeasantsThree MonthsBundlesUnder PressureProcreationStudsReproducingReasonablenessTahiti Book:Pavannes and Divagations Source: Pavannes and Divagations
“Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.” IfsCountryObjectsBirthMembersCreatingDestructionShameSymbolsAgentsGloriousHonoredShamefulProcreationCreating Life Author:Cyrano de Bergerac