“I have come out in favor of birth control but sterilization is a crippling of a vital body function.”

— Billy Graham

Statement prior to 1963, as quoted in Fit to Be Tied: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1950-1980, (2011), Rebecca M. Kluchin, p. 44 https://books.google.com/books?id=fbXeTqBPiP8C&pg=PA44&dq=%22i+have+come+out+in+favor+of+birth+control%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjgn5DY277MAhUEJiYKHQ6CBUoQ6AEINTAA#v=onepage&q=%22i%20have%20come%20out%20in%20favor%20of%20birth%20control%22&f=false

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American Christian evangelist 1918–2018

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