CHURCH VIEW OF BIRTH CONTROL
“Step Forward In Thinking”
Offlcial Roman Catholic ffiretes to Britain bad retented somewhat in their •tend awamat birth control, having rwaitod that to matet on the "rhythm” safe period method penalised the conoidarable proportion - pettope S 5 per cent.—of married couple* who could not safely um M, Dr. Eleanor Mean, secretary of th* British Family Pfenning Amooiation and Ito Council for the Investigation of Fertility Control. *asd in CtoteMxtoh yesterday.
“The church’s new stand Is ttot, where a wife’s menteruai cycle is irregular, she may ; take so-called ‘gestagens* tr make the cycle regular and the safe period safer; and these ‘geatagene* ail have the additional effect of inhabiting ovulation,” Dr. Meara said.
“This i* a big step forward in Roman Cattoto thinking,” she added. “M ties in with statements made over recent yeans by prominent men in the church ttot the historic objection has been to certain methods of birth control rather than to family pfenning as such. “We now have pettents referred to us by Roman OaithoKc doctors and prtaata. Cootaneotal Roman Catholic doctom come to us to study our methods,” she said.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30044, 31 January 1963, Page 10
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