Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life.
Fear of pain has resulted in many women losing sight of birth as normal and natural, and of themselves as powerful and capable. Labor is an opportunity for women to learn about themselves and discover the strength and wisdom inherent in their bodies.
Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People's characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life; birth itself does but little.
No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate, they know that this is the place that we were born and raised.
Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.
We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth. It's profitable to scare women about birth. But let's stop it. I tell women: Your body is not a lemon.
What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.
Etgar means "challenge. " And my family name is Keret, which means "urban. " So my name is "urban challenge. " My joke is, it's a good description of a birth but a strange name for a human being.
Why would you train an instrument of destruction? (Jericho) We all choose our destinies. Our birth doesn’t dictate our future unless we allow it. (Acheron)
Many people are horrified at the idea of birth control. . . . It is simply the keynote of a new moral program.
What the Secretary of Agriculture is trying to do is to teach the farmer corn acreage control, and the hogs birth control, and one is just as hard to make understand it as the other.
There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body is the child's instrument of birth.
The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.
The experience of the next life is too far away to really be concerned with. It will be an outgrowth of this incarnation and what happens between birth and death.
If we simply preach the effects of redemption in the human life instead of the revealed, divine truth regarding Jesus Himself, the result is not new birth in those who listen. The result is {only} a refined religious lifestyle. . . we must make sure that we are living in such harmony with God that as we proclaim His truth He can create in others those things which He alone can do.
Born to be wild - live to outgrow it.
Let your monkey do it.
There is no death! Death is very much like sunset. It is only an appearance. For, when the sun sets here, it rises elsewhere. In reality, the sun never sets. Likewise, death is only an illusion, an appearance. For, what is death here is birth elsewhere. For life is endless.
I was fortunate enough to be an American citizen by birth and I have the birth certificate to prove it.