{"id":27194,"date":"2012-03-21T23:24:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T05:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/21\/a-birth-control-flashback-from-fifty-years-ago.html"},"modified":"2012-03-21T23:24:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T05:24:08","slug":"a-birth-control-flashback-from-fifty-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/21\/a-birth-control-flashback-from-fifty-years-ago.html","title":{"rendered":"A birth control flashback from fifty years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>&quot;I have no right to impose my thinking, which is rooted in religious thought, on those who do not think as I do.\u201d<\/i> and <i>&quot;Catholics do not need the support of civil law to be faithful to their own religious convictions and they do not seek to impose by law their moral views on others of society.&quot;<\/i> &#8212; Catholic Cardinal Richard Cushing of Boston, on the overturning of Massachussetts&#39; anti-birth control laws in the mid-60s.<\/p>\n<p> #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fgraphics8.nytimes.com%2Fimages%2F2012%2F03%2F15%2Fopinion%2F15campaign-stops-cushing%2F15campaign-stops-cushing-articleInline.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/15\/catholics-and-contraception-boston-1965\/?smid=tw-nytimesnational&#038;seid=auto'>Catholics and Contraception: Boston, 1965<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe debate in Massachusetts over legalizing birth control created surprising alliances.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;I have no right to impose my thinking, which is rooted in religious thought, on those who do not think as I do.\u201d and &quot;Catholics do not need the support of civil law to be faithful to their own religious convictions and they do not seek to impose by law their moral views on others &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/21\/a-birth-control-flashback-from-fifty-years-ago.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A birth control flashback from fifty years ago&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-27194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26160,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/07\/mitt-romney-hypocrite-or-political-hack.html","url_meta":{"origin":27194,"position":0},"title":"Mitt Romney: Hypocrite, or Political Hack?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 7-Feb-12 2:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Or maybe just both.Somehow this stirring, noble, profound insurance \/ birth control \/ religious freedom cause didn't bug him at all a decade ago when he was running for, and then serving as governor of Massachusetts. 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