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Protestant views on contraception are markedly more pluralistic than the doctrine expressed by the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, due to historical divergences of theological thought that began during the Protestant Reformation, including the rejection of an infallible doctrinal authority other than Scripture. The doctrine of various forms ...
In 1963, Pope John XXIII established a commission of six European non-theologians to study questions of birth control and population. [1] [2] Neither John XXIII nor Paul VI wanted the almost three thousand bishops and other clerics then in Rome for Vatican II to address the birth control issue even though many of these bishops expressed their desire to bring this pressing pastoral issue before ...
A Catholic family from Virginia, 1959. The Catholic position on contraception was formally explained and expressed by Pope Paul VI's Humanae vitae in 1968. Artificial contraception is considered intrinsically evil, [20] but methods of natural family planning may be used, as they do not usurp the natural way of conception. [21]
If the marriage contract has come to an end because of divorce or death of the husband, medically assisted conception cannot be performed on the ex-wife even if the sperm comes from the former husband. An excess number of embryos can be preserved by cryopreservation. The frozen embryos are the property of the couple alone and may be transferred ...
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Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn, an anti-abortion rights Republican who recently dismissed as “constitutionally unsound” a longstanding Supreme Court ruling that legalized contraception, was ...
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These beliefs are based on the belief of "fetal personhood". [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Personhood arguments focus on giving a fetus the status of a person which then entitles them to the right to life . [ 15 ] Anti-abortion beliefs tend to be associated with conservative Christian groups, especially the Catholic Church .