HERSTORY: Catholic Men WANT CONTROL of Women ‘til Death 1921 - NOW
Mrs. Sanger’s often picturesque struggles with the police and her differences with the Roman Catholic hierarchy furnished the birth control movement with ample publicity. On Nov. 14, 1921, when Mrs. Sanger arrived at Town Hall on West 43d Street to take part in the discussion, “Birth Control: Is It Moral?” she found the police closing the meeting.
In the angry pulling, shoving and shouting that followed, Mrs. Sanger left the platform with two policemen. A disorderly conduct charge against her was dismissed the next day. The New York Times account of the interrupted meeting stated that the police intervention was “brought about at the instance of Archbishop Patrick J. Hayes of this Roman Catholic Archdiocese.”
Margaret Sanger Is Dead at 82; Led Campaign for Birth Control
A Reply to the Pope 1931
by Margaret Sanger
The steady advance of the birth control movement can only receive fresh impetus from the new interest which has been aroused by the attack of Pope Pius XI.
His encyclical letter, “Of Chaste Marriage,” made public in January, 1931, aims to regulate the conjugal affairs of Catholic men and women, without the benefit of science, and according to theories written by St. Augustine, also a bachelor, who died fifteen centuries ago. The Pope makes it perfectly plain that Catholics are expected to give up health, happiness, and life itself while making every other conceivable sacrifice rather than to have dominion over nature’s processes of procreation. His letter denies that any claims of poverty, sickness, or other hindrances to proper rearing of children are valid reasons for the scientific limitation of offspring. As for the breeding of criminal, diseased, feeble-minded, and insane classes, the Pope opposes every method of control except that of suggesting to these unfortunate people to please not do it any more.
One must deplore the fact that Pope Pius should have chosen this time of the world’s distress from unemployment, poverty, and economic maladjustment to advertise doctrines and advise conduct which can only tend to aggravate that distress. But the reason for his outburst is no secret.
The Fear of Progress
The Pope is alarmed. He admits that a new and, as he thinks, “utterly perverse” morality is “gradually gaining ground.” This “has begun to spread even among the faithful.” We need not wonder what he means. He makes specific and repeated references to birth control by contraceptive measures as a main object of his attack. He admits that there are growing multitudes who either hold or harken to ideas on marriage opposed to his, for he stresses the world-wide expression of such ideas through novels, plays, movies, radio broadcasting and, as he puts its, through “all the inventions of modern science.” We who favor scientific birth control may take new courage from the tribute to our progress paid by such high authority. And I hope that he charitably includes us when he concedes that “not all the sponsors of these new doctrines are carried to the extremes of unbridled lust.”
More: The Public Papers of Margaret Sanger: Web Edition
Preventing the Continuation of Restrictions When Religious Hospitals are Sold from 2004
MergerWatch staff work directly with community coalitions across the nation to protect hospital-based services that are threatened by proposed The MergerWatch Project was founded in 1996 at the Education Fund of Family Planning Advocates of NYS in Albany, NY, after a religious/secular hospital merger caused the loss of patients’ access to contraceptive services at a hospital outpatient clinic in Troy, NY.
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For these for-profi ts, the transaction is simply a business deal: they are willing to continue service restrictions in order to buy the hospitals they want - often at bargain prices. The sale agreement of a Catholic hospital to a secular system generally
requires that the Catholic teachings be followed for a substantial period of time — from 20 years to forever — and also binds subsequent owners. As a result, communities are denied vital health services long after the religiously-controlled systems have been paid in full and have relinquished control of the hospital. More: mergerwatch.org
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