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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Though women are no longer barred from university laboratories and scientific societies, the idea that they are innately less suited to mathematical science is deeply ingrained in our cultural genes.
I feel very strongly about contraception even though I know people say that, as a good Catholic girl, I shouldn't. But I disagree because I think one of the keys to women's progression in the 20th century is being able to control their fertility.
To put it mildly, I'm not crazy about the implication that pregnant women are incapable of deciding for themselves.
Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.
Going into a pregnancy is a really challenging time for a woman, because it's forever-changing, both mentally and physically.
Being pregnant is the most natural thing our bodies can do. Our grandparents did it without all these books, and they came out okay.
Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.
If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child; therefore, take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54,' then it's another story.
The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.
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