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Worrisome Statement on Contraception from Vatican Institute

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / July 25, 2022 /
pack of pink pills

…in the moral object of the knowingly chosen act. Hence, contraception does not become “not-contraception” by the absence of contraceptive intent, or due to a dire circumstance, or because of…

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Social Impact of Over-the-Counter “Opill”

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / July 31, 2023 /
Opill: spilling bottle of pills

…the availability of contraception. To turn this ‘progression’ around: contraception leads to more extra-marital sexual intercourse, more extra-marital sexual intercourse leads to more unwanted pregnancies; more unwanted pregnancies lead to…

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Are Unsafe Abortions Stopped by Legalizing Abortion?

By Brian Clowes, PhD and Marisa Cantu / October 4, 2024 /

…an abortion.”1 More recently, columnist Ellen Goodman breathlessly proclaimed, “After all, those of us who remember when birth control was illegal and when 10,000 American women a year died from…

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The Early History of the Eugenics Movement

By Brian Clowes, PhD / June 30, 2020 /

…― Margaret Sanger. Her journal The Birth Control Review, along with her many books, features hundreds of examples of racist and eugenicist thinking, culminating in her 1932 “Plan for Peace.”…

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The Teaching of the Prophetic Encyclical Humanae Vitae (Part X)

By Adolfo J. Castañeda / September 10, 2021 /

…The Third Prophecy Part VI: The Fourth Prophecy Part VII: Modernity’s Challenges to Humanae Vitae Part VIII: The Church’s Right to Teach on Birth Control Part IX: The Church’s Teaching…

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What Does the Catholic Church Teach about Sterilization?

By Brian Clowes, PhD / May 9, 2017 /

Some people refer to sexual sterilization as “Catholic birth control.” This erroneous term, along with the misguided assertions of a number of well-known dissenters, has led to significant confusion regarding…

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Planned Parenthood Abortion Statistics

By Brian Clowes, PhD / July 2, 2021 /

…committed 354,871 abortions in 2020. But it also distributed 584,003 “emergency contraception” kits that year, and there is no way to tell how many early preborn lives were ended in…

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How the Gates Foundation Harms, Not Helps, Human Development

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / June 24, 2019 /
sad african woman thinking

…that the Gates Foundation has previously spent on promoting contraception. Melinda defends her foundation’s emphasis on contraception by claiming that there are hundreds of millions of women with an “unmet…

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A Post-Roe America: What’s Next?

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / May 16, 2022 /

contraception there will be a reduction in the number of abortions; however, now that contraceptive use has been widespread in the U.S. for more than fifty-seven years (remember birth control

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The Eugenics Philosophy

By Brian Clowes, PhD / June 19, 2020 /
old man and child, baby, boy, grandfather

…Marie Stopes, founder of the Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress and good friend of Margaret Sanger, complained in her book Radiant Motherhood: Society allows the diseased, the…

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