How the Morally Pristine Can Cripple the Church | National Catholic Reporter

How the Morally Pristine Can Cripple the Church | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: Olmsted is doing whatever he can to put party over truth.  He is also wrong on birth control being evil, since life begins at gastrulation, not conception.  Such an admission would help the cause of life, because it would definitvely show when life really does begin, not just where it might begin.  Catholic doctrine has also long excepted that if hormonal birth control is used for health reasons, not the intent to prevent pregnancy, it is morally licit.  You can't judge that at the sign up stage.  Indeed, the cost of such care is trivial compared with the benefit of health care - which might actually prevent limitations on family size because it makes the next child more affordable than would otherwise be the case.