If you listen to the Catholic bishops you would think that Catholics are against contraception and legal abortion, … - Gloria Steinem

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What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.

Gloria Steinem

If you listen to the Catholic bishops you would think that Catholics are against contraception and legal abortion, but if you ask actual Catholics, you discover that more than 90% of Catholic women use contraception and Catholic women seem to need and choose legal abortion at about the same rate as everybody else. The problem is that the backlash occupies positions of power, not that it represents the majority of people.

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