Dropped Coverage
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio says it can no longer offer a popular (redacted, and then un-redacted) healthcare program to its students because of Obamacare, the health care overhaul of the Obama administration.
The changes to the healthcare program include a mandate of contraception, which goes against church teaching and thus the principles of this Catholic university, as well as skyrocketing... READ MORE
Does The Contraceptive Mentality Exist?
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Marriage on Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Oh, have mercy, not another internet NFP debate.
Well, yes, except I’m not trying to stir a debate necessarily, but to learn something.
Two things, actually.
A couple of my friends posted this nicely balanced reflection on why Catholics need not use NFP.
I like the article, but I’ve never heard anyone suggest NFP was required so am curious if you have. That’s question one.
My second question is... READ MORE
Did Your Parents Contracept?
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Family on Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Deja vu? This is a close approximation of a post I put up two weeks ago. The original was lost to a site crash moments after it was put up, but it’s a conversation I’d like to have, so I’m trying again. Four or five of you put up really interesting responses, but they were lost in the crash. My apologies!
I often wonder—do you?—what effect it has on our young people that adults often and openly discuss... READ MORE
I Use NFP Buttons
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Reviews on Friday, March 30, 2012
Here’s something fun.
Spunky pro-NFP blog buttons and badges.
Pictured is my favorite (well, honestly, it’s a tie between that and “We do it every night. Chart.)”
But there are loads of others, and a whole website coming.
On a totally other note: ERIN, the Style, Sex & Substance winner! Shoot me an email—the one you left is not working for me—I’ll leave my contact info in comments.
Demeaning Women
Posted by Rebecca Teti in News on Tuesday, March 13, 2012
I think this woman’s perspective on the HHS mandate will bless you.
It’s a mix of theological arguments with simple rational ones, and comes from the heart.
Take it away, Gloria Purvis.*
*Non-washingtonians might like to know that the Northwest Center she’s identified with in the video is a crisis pregnancy center and maternity home founded in 1981 by students and alums of Georgetown University.
They do great work, so I’d like to give them a little plug.
The Church Was Right on Birth Control
Posted by DariaSockey in News on Wednesday, February 08, 2012
It’s been a good week to be a believing Catholic in the United States. Tumultuous, but good. It’s a cause of legitimate pride to see our Bishops taking a bold stand against the HHS contraception sterilization mandate. It’s been gratifying to see so many non-Catholics joining us in protest. Whatever they think of the Church’s teaching on contraception—and we can assume most of them disagree with it—they... READ MORE
The Pill At 50
Posted by Rebecca Teti in News on Tuesday, November 30, 2010
You have to read this remarkable article on the pill at 50.
Not much in it will surprise you—except for the fact it made the cover of New York magazine.
The author doesn’t share the Church’s moral outlook, yet wants women to think hard about whether being on a drug that makes you fake pregnant for years at a time doesn’t have a downside.
for the wheatgrass-and-yoga generation, there’s something about... READ MORE
Raquel Welch's Wake Up Call
Posted by Danielle Bean in News on Monday, May 10, 2010
The 50th anniversary of the Pill has many major news sources running some interesting articles and commentary on modern day contraception.
The most interesting to me, so far, has been It’s sex o’clock in America by Raquel Welch at CNN.
She begins with a brief history of the sexual revolution from her own point of view—that of a 19-year-old wife facing an unplanned pregnancy in the 1960’s. Though she’s... READ MORE
Not on the Same Page
Posted by Sara Fox Peterson in Marriage on Monday, October 05, 2009
Ideally a Catholic’s obligation never to use contraception or be sterilized would be something discussed, understood and agreed upon before the couple was married—while there was still time to call off the wedding if it became obvious that remaining faithful to Church teaching and marrying this particular person would be incompatible.
It often happens, however, that people marry and one experiences... READ MORE
The Inventor’s Repentance
Posted by Rebecca Teti in News on Monday, January 12, 2009
Austria’s Der Standard recently published an op-ed by the co-inventor of the pill blaming his own invention for “demographic catastrophe” and wishing he’d had nothing to do with it.
It would be hard to exaggerate Carl Djerassi’s prominence in the world of science. An Austrian holocaust survivor who came to be educated in the United States with the help of Eleanor Roosevelt, the man was feted by the... READ MORE
