{"id":12324,"date":"2012-04-16T18:24:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T22:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=12324"},"modified":"2012-04-16T18:24:33","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T22:24:33","slug":"young-catholic-women-try-to-modernize-the-message-on-birth-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2012\/04\/young-catholic-women-try-to-modernize-the-message-on-birth-control\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Young Catholic women try to modernize the message on birth control&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A surprisingly respectful article from the Washington Post, also amazingly sneer-free.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ashley McGuire fell in love with the Catholic Church five years ago, after reading its teaching against artificial birth control.<\/p>\n<p>McGuire, then a skeptical Protestant college student, initially saw the ban as a mandatory march to \u201cdomestic slavery.\u201d But the more she read, the more she was blown away by the idea that sex \u2014 and women\u2019s bodies \u2014 must be about more than physical pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>Yet\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ccli.org\/shop\/onlineshopping.php?criteria=category&amp;f_cat=books&amp;ind=1&amp;order_by=name\">the images the church uses<\/a>\u00a0to promote its own method of birth control freaked her out. Pamphlets for what the church calls natural family planning feature photos of babies galore. A church-sponsored class on the method uses a book with a woman on the cover, smiling as she balances a grocery bag on one hip, a baby on the other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy guess is 99 out of 100\u00a021st-century women trying to navigate the decision about contraception would see that cover and run for the hills,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.altcatholicah.com\/altcatol\/a\/b\/rsa\/4333\/\">McGuire wrote in a post on her blog, Altcatholicah<\/a>, which is aimed at Catholic women.<\/p>\n<p>McGuire, 26, of Alexandria is part of a movement of younger, religiously conservative Catholic women who are trying to rebrand an often-ignored church teaching:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/holy_father\/paul_vi\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_p-vi_enc_25071968_humanae-vitae_en.html\">its ban on birth control methods such as the Pill<\/a>. Arguing that church theology has been poorly explained and encouraged, they want to shift the image of a traditional Catholic woman from one at home with children to one with a great, communicative sex life, a chemical-free body and babies only when the parents think the time is right.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article does not really get the nuances concerning <em>Serious motives, just reasons, proportionately serious reasons<\/em> in regards to the spacing of children. Despite that, quite a positive article considering the author Michelle Boorstein is not exactly known for friendly articles regarding the Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A surprisingly respectful article from the Washington Post, also amazingly sneer-free. Ashley McGuire fell in love with the Catholic Church five years ago, after reading its teaching against artificial birth&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12325,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12324\/revisions\/12325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}