ACCORDING to the Associated Press: Students at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania can get the “morning-after” pill by sliding $25 into a vending machine, an idea that has drawn the attention of federal regulators and raised questions about how accessible emergency contraception should be. [emphasis added] [OH MY, QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN RAISED!!]

  ANOTHER READER sends proof of her failure to use contraception. Her daughter was born just over a week ago. When contraception is widely available, when it is embraced as normal, when births are planned and scheduled, when deliberation replaces surrender, when convenience replaces hardship and struggle, every child seems like a choice, the product of human will [...]

   JAMES P. writes: Bruno claims that Catholicism is a “very harsh doctrine” because it requires that one sacrifice materialistic pleasures like buying a new car or new home or taking a vacation in order to have children. Even if one accepts the argument that the requirement to procreate and raise children is “very harsh” (though humans [...]

  MANY CATHOLICS encountered official outrage at church yesterday over Obama’s recent ruling that under his healthcare plan, Catholic hospitals must include coverage for contraception and abortion-inducing drugs in their health plans for employees. As Christopher Badeaux argues at RedState, this outrage on the part of America’s bishops is in many cases highly hypocritical. Where were the [...]

  IN RESPONSE to complaints by Seattle area parents that their children are being exposed to hard core porn when they walk by library computers,  Barbara Jones, director of the American Library Association’s intellectual freedom office, said last week, “Sometimes, in a library, you’re going to see information that’s going to make you uncomfortable.” The freedom [...]

  JOHN PURDY writes: First let me thank you and your participants for some very fine, well-argued writing in the post ”Contraception and the Culture War.” Speaking as someone who, regrettably, was never able to have children (though not for wont of trying) I have a hunch that, as society ages, we’re going to see a lot [...]

  I HAVE quite a few comments, many of them excellent, regarding the recent post, “Contraception and the Culture War.” I will be posting them over the course of the next few hours.