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Wednesday, September 14, 2005

The Wages of Contraception
"Blood clots, pulmonary embolism, heart attack and stroke": Johnson & Johnson Sued Over Ortho Patch

[link to article via A conservative blog for peace]

Of course, contraception would be just as lethal even if it were perfectly safe, leading as it does to spiritual death for the individual and race suicide for nations.

Here's what the "Hillybilly Thomist" had to say on the subject from a 1959 letter in The Habit of Being : Letters of Flannery O'Connor:
    The Church’s stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists at heart, there is little wonder that it causes unease. I wish various fathers would quit trying to defend it by saying that the world can support forty billion. I will rejoice in the day when they say: This is right, whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding.
[The above quote was copied from this FT article: Flannery O'Connor: A Life.]