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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
Contraception: Why Not? (part 8)
This post is part of a series by Professor Janet E. Smith. Slide: Contraceptives as Abortifacients Many people don’t know that the chemical contraceptives in and of themselves are abortifacients. What does that mean? The pill, Norplant, Depo-Provera, and the … Continue reading
Contraception: Why Not? (part 7)
This post is part of a series by Professor Janet E. Smith. Slide: Contraception Leads to Abortion Even the Supreme Court says that contraception leads to abortion in Planned Parenthood vs. Casey. Casey was the democratic pro-life governor of Pennsylvania; … Continue reading
Contraception: Why Not? (part 6)
This post is part of a series by Professor Janet E. Smith. Slide: Unwed Pregnancy The growth of the incidence of unwed pregnancy tells an amazing story. In 1960, 3 percent of white babies were born out of wedlock and … Continue reading