Bob writes a piece on Huffington Post about the continuing ban on birth control for women around the world.
The pill, the pill,
I’m pining for the pill.
I’ll never have any more
Because they’re going to bless the pill.
That’s the chorus of a song Scottish folksinger Matt McGinn wrote in 1968 after meeting a mother of 22 who wanted to try the pill. That July, advisors to Pope Paul VI reportedly urged reversal of longstanding Catholic Church opposition to the use of artificial contraception by married couples. Instead, 40 years ago today [July 25, 2008], Paul issued the encyclical known as Humanae Vitae…
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