>>>I don't remember anyone saying anything about the Micks, unless you're meaning Catholics - and no one is arguing that they don't, just not oral contraceptives
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>Huh? If you try to focus on the issue of contraception (including the morning-after pill) then people scold that it's actually about women's health, with the obvious implication. Nope, it's about contraception.
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>>>Even though (according to all the numbers I've seen thrown about) 98% of sexually active Catholic women either use or have used some form of contraceptives.
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>I'd suggest you check out how those figures were created to see the intense politicization of this issue, but seems to me it's an own goal: does the church secretly dispense contraception to 98% of female parishioners or could it be that in real life 98% of these women managed to figure it out for themselves? ;-)
Among Catholics of my generation this seems to be the biggest stumbling block to accepting church dogma. In their real lives they might not want a pregnancy at any given time. Also, to state the obvious, what are a bunch of celibate old white men doing telling them what to do with their bodies?
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