"We consider [birth control] an elective drug. Married women can practice periodic abstinence. Other women can abstain altogether. Not having sex doesn't make you sick."—Deirdre McQuade, assistant director for policy and communications at the Conference of Catholic Bishops' Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities.
Quoted in a piece by Dana Goldstein about "The Coming Birth Control Battle: Health-care reform raised the possibility that birth control could soon be free for most women. But not if conservative activists have their way."
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