Since the onset of the Pill, Mary
Calderone's sex education, and Dr. Wilkie's Right-to-Life programs, people
are fully aware of the true scientific facts which make the understanding
of the reproductive system universal knowledge. This was not so in the
early 1900's, even among the educated. For sex was a "hush-hush"
subject, and certainly not a topic of conversation. But today, even our
high-schoolers are taught more about female biology than what was known by
many when Pope Paul VI wrote his encyclical, Humanae Vitae-much to
the destruction of young purity.
Professor Andre Hallegers of
Georgetown University's Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology says that,
"Humanae Vitae makes no case in logic." Professor
Hallegers, who served on the Papal Commission originally instituted by
Pope John XXIII claims:
The Encyclical's biology is not
thought through. It says that intercourse MUST be always left open to
the transmission of life, then it asks us to perfect
