Posts Tagged ‘child bearing’

Margaret Sanger, founder of the American birth control movement and of the organizaton that became Planned Parenthood, called birth control “the liberation of human development.”

Nor surprisingly, Pope Benedict begs to differ with the all-time papal nemesis, Ms. Sanger.

The Times of London did a great riff on the Pope’s recent pronouncement that it was the washing machine, not the ability to control fertility and separate childbearing from sex that has been most liberating, listing the top ten ways women throughout history have been freed by various sudsy technologies: