"[T]he only lawful method of avoiding parenthood is abstinence, either total or periodic. Every intelligent person will see how different is this type of 'birth control' – if one wishes to call it such – from the use of a contraceptive. One is the non-use of a faculty, the other is its abuse."
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Father Francis J. Connell, “Birth Control: The Case for the Catholic”, The Atlantic (October 1939)
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