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Turning Point: The Inside Story of the Papal Birth Control Commission, and How Humanae Vitae Changed the Life of Patty Crowley and the Future of the Church » Read Now
by Robert McClory. 202 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library
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Contraception and Catholics: A New Appraisal (1964) » Read Now
by Louis Dupre. 94 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library
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Contraception: A Symposium, in First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life » Read Now
by Harold O. J. Brown, J. Budziszewski, Charles J. Chaput, Janet E. Smith. 13 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...preoccupation Protestants tended to be tolerant of it. The Pope used the traditional natural law arguments of Catholicism against contraception, essentially maintaining...
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Sacred Rights: The Case for Contraception and Abortion in World Religions (Chap. 2 "Contraception and Abortion in Roman Catholicism") » Read Now
by Daniel C. Maguire. 295 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

This book presents the work of the "Sacred Choices Initiative" of the Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health, and Ethics. The purpose of this Packard and Ford Foundation supported initiative is to attempt to change international discourse on family planning and to rescue this...
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This book presents the work of the "Sacred Choices Initiative" of the Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health, and Ethics. The purpose of this Packard and Ford Foundation supported initiative is to attempt to change international discourse on family planning and to rescue this debate from superficial sloganeering by drawing on the moral stores of the world's major and indigenous religions. In many of the world's religions there is a restrictive and pro-natalist view on family planning, and this is one legitimate reading of those religious traditions. As the essays in this volume demonstrate, however, this is not the only legitimate or orthodox view. These authors show that the paramaters of orthodoxy are wider and gentler than that, and that the great religious traditions are wiser and more variegated and nuanced than a simple repetition of the most conservative views would suggest. This theme is carried out in essays on each of the world's major religious traditions, written by scholar practitioners of those faiths.
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Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government in Modern America (Chap. 4 "The Backlash: Roman Catholics, Contraceptives, Abortion, and Sterilization") » Read Now
by Donald T. Critchlow. 307 pgs.

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After World War II, U.S. policy experts--convinced that unchecked population growth threatened global disaster--successfully lobbied bipartisan policy-makers in Washington to initiate federally-funded family planning. In Intended Consequences, Donald T. Critchlow deftly chronicles how the...
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After World War II, U.S. policy experts--convinced that unchecked population growth threatened global disaster--successfully lobbied bipartisan policy-makers in Washington to initiate federally-funded family planning. In Intended Consequences, Donald T. Critchlow deftly chronicles how the government's involvement in contraception and abortion evolved into one of the most bitter, partisan controversies in American political history. The growth of the feminist movement in the late 1960s fundamentally altered the debate over the federal family planning movement, shifting its focus from population control directed by established interests in the philanthropic community to highly polarized pro-abortion and anti-abortion groups mobilized at the grass-roots level. And when the Supreme Court granted women the Constitutional right to legal abortion in 1973, what began as a bi-partisan, quiet revolution during the administrations of Kennedy and Johnson exploded into a contentious argument over sexuality, welfare, the role of women, and the breakdown of traditional family values. Intended Consequences encompasses over four decades of political history, examining everything from the aftermath of the Republican "moral revolution" during the Reagan and Bush years to the current culture wars concerning unwed motherhood, homosexuality, and the further protection of women's abortion rights. Critchlow's carefully balanced appraisal of federal birth control and abortion policy reveals that despite the controversy, the family planning movement has indeed accomplished much in the way of its intended goal--the reduction of population growth in many parts of the world. Written with authority, fresh insight, and impeccable research, Intended Consequences skillfully unfolds the history of how the federal government found its way into the private bedrooms of the American family.
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American Freedom and Catholic Power (Chap. 7 "Sex, Birth Control and Eugenics") » Read Now
by Paul Blanshard. 352 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...unimportant in the total scheme of world Catholicism before 1875 that until that date not...statement might give the impression that Catholicism is a great and spontaneous...
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American Catholics since the Council: An Unauthorized Report (Chap. Four "Religious Attitudes and Devotion" and Chap. Five "Sex and Authority") » Read Now
by Andrew M. Greeley. 227 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...century did not mention the issue of contraception . One question remains unanswered...apparently is able to justify its "selective Catholicism" by an appeal to Gods love...
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From Now to Zero: Fertility, Contraception and Abortion in America (Chap. 5 "Catholics and Contraception") » Read Now
by Leslie Westoff Aldridge, Charles F. Westoff. 360 pgs.

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...FROM NOW TO ZERO: FERTILITY, CONTRACEPTION AND ABORTION IN AMERICA with...Zero From Now to Zero Fertility, Contraception and Abortion in America by LESLIE...Childlessness...
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Colonialism, Catholicism, and Contraception: A History of Birth Control in Puerto Rico » Read Now
by Annette B. Ramairez de Arellano, Conrad Seipp. 222 pgs.

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...Colonialism, Catholicism, and Contraception Colonialism, Catholicism, and Contraception A History of Birth Control in...Arellano, Annette B. Colonialism, Catholicism, and...
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Human Fertility in Latin America: Sociological Perspectives (Chap. 7 "The Bishops, Politics, and Birth Control" and Chap. 11 "Contraception and Catholicism in Latin America") » Read Now
by J. Mayone Stycos. 318 pgs.

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...in Chapter 11, from "Contraception and Catholicism in Latin America," Journal...147 11 Contraception and Catholicism in Latin America...toward family size and...
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Ideology, Faith, and Family Planning in Latin America: Studies in Public and Private Opinion on Fertility Control (Chap. 9 "Parish Priests In Bogota" and Chap. 16 "After the Encyclical") » Read Now
by J. Mayone Stycos, S. Betsy Cohen, Edgar H. Elam. 426 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...transition from prohibition of contraception not only to tolerance of...though the alleged anti- Catholicism of certain liberal party...tradition of conservative...
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Winning the Trojan War: What Ultra-Catholic Third Worlders Can Teach America about Contraception, in Washington Monthly » Read Now
by Tina Rosenberg. 3 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...conservative Colombian hierarchy. Yet among the poor and middle classes, there was an indisputable need for contraception, Catholicism or no. As more women entered the...