Jean Marie Hathway, student, was quoted in a Crux story about Humanae Vitae.
... Jeanne Marie Hathway, a student of theology and philosophy at The Catholic University of America, also sees a lesson for the feminist movement in a papal document which, at the time, was widely seen as a repudiation of women’s rights.
“Ultimately, contraception and abortion are band-aid measures a society adopts so it doesn’t have to make serious improvements in its treatment of women,” she argued. “The Church rejects both, advocating for a culture shift that sees all issues through the lens of human dignity.”
Hathway told Crux that fertility awareness-based methods of family planning offer women a different way of being in their bodies - one, she said, which calls men to recognize and respect the intricacy of life. ...
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