The reigning ideology tells us that the unkempt contours of female fertility must be scoured away by a masculine, mechanizing ideology in order to fit into the smooth cogs of the sexual revolution. But is the only paradigm that applies to female fertility one of technological “control”?
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John Paul II's Theology of the Body and the Gift of Children →
Is There an Escape from the Evils of a Contracepting Society? →
Humanae Vitae in Light of the War Against Female Fertility →
The contraceptive mindset cannot avoid scapegoating women’s bodies as the cause of both personal and societal problems. By contrast, the Church, with critical and prophetic clarity, points out that it is selfish desire, not the female body, that is the source of our problems.
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Contraception and Catholicism
Contraception and Catholicism: What the Church Teaches and Why presents a simple yet profound explanation of Catholic teaching on contraception. Through an exploration of the meaning of sex and the effects of contraception on the culture, Contraception and Catholicism helps both undecided as well as convinced readers to understand the reasonableness of Church teaching.
Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Legacy
Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Legacy: The Control of Female Fertility definitively exposes the extensive connections between Sanger's Planned Parenthood and the eugenics movement.
Women, Sex, and the Church
See my chapter on contraception in this terrific resource.
"This book takes on both the thorniest dilemmas and the best kept secrets of the Catholic Church's teachings concerning women, with thoroughness, intelligence, and honesty."
Helen Alvaré, J.D., Associate Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law
Women, the Pill, and the Sexual Revolution
A book review, named in the Best of The Public Discourse of 2015
Read MoreA Life of Passion: Progressive Eugenics and Planned Parenthood
A new biography of Margaret Sanger fails to confront the Planned Parenthood founder's ideological commitment to eugenics and population control.
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