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“Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus.”

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Author:Dana Gould

“It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.”

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Book:Bertrand Russell's Best

Source: Bertrand Russell's Best

“Shortly after the birth control pill was approved for public distribution, one woman wrote to John Rock, its inventor, "You should be afraid to meet your maker." Rock, despite being Catholic replied, "My dear Madam, in my faith, we are taught that the Lord is with us always. When my time comes, there will be no need for introductions."”

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Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“The American people intuitively understand this, which is why the majority of Catholics practice birth control and some of those opposed to gay marriage nevertheless are opposed to a Constitutional amendment to ban it. Religious leadership need not accept such wisdom in counseling their flocks, but they should recognize this wisdom in their politics.”

Source: An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer

“I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a whole, here and everywhere. I mention here only the fight against birth control at a time when overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organize peace on this planet.”

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“The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion”

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Book:Sisterhood is powerful: an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement

Source: Sisterhood is powerful: an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement

“It is easy to forget, since the Catholic Church is now the only large American religious denomination whose ecclesiastical hierarchy continues to oppose birth control, that only a century ago the leaders of nearly all churches were united in their resistance to any public discussion of the subject.”

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Book:Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism

Source: Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism

“Although every organized religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil, the Roman Catholic church also carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion, and by its use of skillful and wealthy lobbies to prevent legislative change. It is an obscenity-an all-male hierarchy, celibate or not, that presumes to rule on the lives and bodies of millions of women.”