Monthly Archives: September 2009
Contraception: Why Not? (part 16)
This post is part of a series by Professor Janet E. Smith. Slide: Monkeys and Contraception There is an amazing study reported from a book by a man named Lionel Tiger. Lionel Tiger is an anthropologist from Rutgers University who … Continue reading
Contraception: Why Not? (part 15)
This post is part of a series by Professor Janet E. Smith. Slide: Dismissing Side Effects When the Pill was first discovered in the later 1950’s it was tested on women in Puerto Rico. And these are the reports that … Continue reading
Contraception: Why Not? (part 14)
This post is part of a series by Professor Janet E. Smith. Slide: Reasons to Condemn Contraception: The Catholic Church condemns contraception because it is against nature, human nature. Human nature is complex. Certainly we are physical creatures and we … Continue reading
Contraception Intermission
As I stated in “Contraception Preamble“, I would provide my comments to this series of posts either as actual comments to each post or in a separate post. This is my third Contraception Intermission for the series “Contraception: Why Not?” by … Continue reading
Contraception: Why Not? (part 13)
This post is part of a series by Professor Janet E. Smith. Slide: Catholics and Contraception In 1950, 66 percent of Catholics did not contracept. By about 1975 or so, Catholics were contracepting at the same rate as the rest … Continue reading
Contraception: Why Not? (part 12)
This post is part of a series by Professor Janet E. Smith. Slide: Humanae Vitae Humanae Vitae was issued in 1968. It is fair to say that it dropped on the world like a bomb. It marked the beginning of … Continue reading
Contraception: Why Not? (part 11)
This post is part of a series by Professor Janet E. Smith. Slide: Pope Paul VI’s Predictions In Humanae Vitae, published in 1968, Pope Paul IV said that four things would happen if contraception became widely available. There would be … Continue reading
Contraception: Why Not? (part 10)
This post is part of a series by Professor Janet E. Smith. Slide: Divorce Rates I would like now to make a case that contraception is a factor leading to the increase in divorce. In the 1960’s, 1 out of … Continue reading
Contraception: Why Not? (part 9)
This post is part of a series by Professor Janet E. Smith. Slide: Cohabitation and Divorce We live in a strange world in which people live together before marriage and get divorced after marriage. There is a much higher divorce … Continue reading
Contraception Intermission
As I stated in “Contraception Preamble“, I would provide my comments to this series of posts either as actual comments to each post or in a separate post. This is my second Contraception Intermission for the series “Contraception: Why Not?” … Continue reading