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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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →