For anybody wondering why Utahns (and Latter-Day Saints) have so many children relative to the rest of the nation, here are a couple of illustrative quotes from the days when leaders were less concerned about public relations and saying plausibly-deniable things...

Joseph Fielding Smith: Birth control is wickedness. . . When a man and woman are married and they agree, or covenant, to limit their offspring to two or three, and practice devices to accomplish this purpose, they