“The idea of women having sex without risking pregnancy is deeply disturbing to the vision of women's role that Western civilization has inherited from the Judeo-Christian tradition…In Britain, the Anglican Church denounced it (birth control) as 'the awful heresy'. As… — Jack Holland Copy Share
“It may seem somewhat ironic that the Catholic Church finds itself advocating the same position against abortion as its severest Christian critics, the Protestant… — Jack Holland Copy Share Image
“The right to choose is always the key to progress for women, as it is for men.” — Jack Holland Copy Share Image
“Plato and Aristotle…survived to become the twin pillars of philosophic and scientific thinking in the Western world, supporting the massive edifice of Christianity. Plato's Theory of Forms, with it's inherent contempt for the physical world, and Aristotle's biological dualism, in which females were seen as failed males, provided the intellectual apparatus for the centuries of misogyny that were to follow.” — Jack Holland Copy Share
“The idea of women having sex without risking pregnancy is deeply disturbing to the vision of women's role that Western civilization has inherited from the Judeo-Christian tradition…In Britain, the Anglican Church denounced it (birth control) as 'the awful heresy'. As families grew smaller in the US during early years of the twentieth century…the moral reaction mounted. Theodore Roosevelt attacked the… — Jack Holland Copy Share
“Ultimately...woman's equality is not derived from any theory of human nature but rather from concepts of justice, equality and the integrity of the individual based on philosophical and political principles that we have evolved since the Enlightenment. "There is, in fact, no incompatibility between the principles of feminism and the possibility that men and women are not psychologically identical,' writes… — Jack Holland Copy Share
“Our recent history should have made one thing clear. Women's rights are human rights. Any foreign policy that fails to recognize this effectively dehumanizes… — Jack Holland Copy Share Image
“In 1968, Pope Paul VI responded instead with an encylical Humanae Vitae. The encyclical reaffirmed the Church's rejectionist stance: Contraceptives were evil and against… — Jack Holland Copy Share Image
“Tertullian thunders at women in the manner of the God of the Old Testament who once threatened to make their hair fall out. But… — Jack Holland Copy Share Image
