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The battle to ban birth control
Using bogus health facts to scare women about the "dangers" of contraception, a fledgling movement fights for a culture in which sex = procreation.
By Priya Jain [2006-03-20]

  • TV Ads

    Here in the Midwest, there have been a number of televised ads promoting "natural" birth control, i.e. the rhythm method. The clear implication in the ads is that other forms of contraception are somehow untested, dangerous, or at least contrary to nature.

    I note that the "One More Soul" website is promoting the "Feast of the Annunciation" on its home page. Clearly, some segment of the Catholic Church is behind this drive. The Catholic Church has never been reluctant to use civil law to enforce its own version of personal morality. This includes not only birth control and abortion but other issues such as forbidding divorce and requiring stores and shops to close on Sunday.

    A lot of folks may be too young to remember that contraception was once illegal and criminal in most states. A Supreme Court decision based on a constitutional "right of privacy" overturned these laws. There are likely some out there who would like to return to the days when contraception was a criminal act.

    -- RBrudzynski
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    Sunday, March 19, 2006 08:17 PM
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