Word: parenthood
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...same time, there will be a continuing campaign for "abortion on demand" on the ground that this is "every woman's birthright." This campaign, in the opinion of Dr. Alan F. Guttmacher, president of Planned Parenthood-World Population, will fail because "the public does not want abortion on demand and is not prepared to accept it." A more realistic approach to reducing the demand for illegal abortion, Guttmacher believes, is to make effective contraception far more widely available...
...damnation" against Catholics who fall short of its teachings and that, "far from being excluded from the sacraments, those in difficulties are invited to receive them more frequently." The Canadian bishops even more strongly suggested that in the conflict between the encyclical's teaching and the burdens of parenthood, "whoever honestly chooses the course which seems right to him does so in good conscience...
...will." They recommended that priests exercise lenience with couples who, for reasons other than "egoism or hedonism," are unable to observe the teaching. "Evangelical tolerance," the bishops suggested, should take into account the difficulties that many couples experience "in trying to reconcile the demands of responsible parenthood with those of their reciprocal love, which is both sensuous and spiritual...
Among the many other experts who concur with Cross are Dr. Emil Wits-chi, senior investigator in reproduction and embryology for the Population Council, and Dr. Alan Guttmacher, president of Planned Parenthood. The stale-egg theory has been confirmed in animal experiments, but as Guttmacher concedes, it is more difficult to establish scientific proof...