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Sean Faircloth:
Attack of the Theocrats!
You do realise that the Pontifical commission on birth control produced a majority report which stated artificial birth control that was not intrinsically evil and that Catholic couples should be allowed to decide for themselves about the methods to be employed. According to the majority report, use of contraceptives should be regarded as an extension of the already accepted cycle method.
However, it was vetoed by the then pope Paul VI who accepted the minority report.
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