Birth control Archives

Is Fertility Awareness a natural alternative to the Pill?
- Church in the US, Interviews
- April 19, 2017
Catholic feminist Anna Keating says that beginning to see one’s fertility and biology, not as an enemy to be eradicated, but as an indicator of health to be understood, is a huge shift. Fertility Awareness gets people to think of themselves as fundamentally relational, and allows them to start thinking about what they want those relationships to look like.
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Population control in Africa risks ‘new colonization,’ say church leaders
- AfricaUND, Global Church
- March 23, 2017
At the African theology summit in Rome, Catholic Church leaders from the African continent weighed in on the efforts made by NGO’s and Western governments to enact population control measures. Congolese Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo warns against the dangers, and Beninese Archbishop Berthelemy Adoukonou raises concerns of a “new colonization.”
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Bills would ban religion exception to birth control coverage
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- March 5, 2017
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2014 that for-profit businesses under the control of just a few people — with no real distinction between the owners and the business — can hold religious views and lawfully choose not to cover employees’ contraceptives. The Nevada legislature seeks to overturn the high court decision.
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On contraception mandates, polls pivot on question being asked

A new poll by the Pew Research Center finds that two-thirds of Americans believe employers should be required to cover birth control, conflicting with a Marist poll showing that a majority say the government is being unfair to the Little Sisters of the Poor — showing it’s all about the question being asked.

Backer of Church ban says contraception hurts women most

Mary Rice Hasson, who heads the Catholic Women’s Forum, was part of a group that recently issued a statement affirming Church teaching on sexuality and artificial contraception, and she argues that the negative fallout of birth control affects women most, especially the poor and women of color.

Rival scholarly groups debate Church teaching on birth control

After a U.K.-based group of Catholic theologians released a statement at the UN calling on the Catholic Church to reverse its teaching on birth control, another group of scholars in the States put out a rebuttal insisting that the teaching is “true and defensible on many grounds.”