Why would men not want birth control?

Coz they think that women will cheat on them?

Cuz if our hormornes are scheduled then we can become normal people almost like them and..gasp!..get the vote or some such thing?

The 60's...hard to tell.

LOL! Both of you!

Cuz many men wanted control over their women, and one way was keeping them "barefoot and pregnant". There are also cultures that perceive lots of children as indications of a man's virility.

You're all dead on right -- I would believe those reasons rather than a religious commitment. Even those devoutly Catholic who professed that the pill was evil have ulterior motives IMHO. Southern Babtists especially included.

Interesting Statistics

Today, an overwhelming majority of Catholics in the United States disagree with this ban and use contraception.


96% of all Catholic women who have ever had sex have used modern contraceptive methods at some point in their lives.
75% of Catholic women of childbearing age who are currently sexually active use a contraceptive method forbidden by the church.
Sexually active Catholic women who attend church once a week or more use contraception at about the same rate as Catholic women who attend church less frequently (monthly)?-73.5% vs. 75%.
-1995 National Survey of Family Growth
Catholics have rejected church-approved family planning methods (the cervical mucus method, the symptothermal method) in favor of reliable, modern methods of contraception.


Less than 3% of sexually active Catholic women use church-approved family planning methods.
Even among married Catholic women who attend church every week, less than 4% use church-approved family planning methods?-about the same as the total population.

-1995 National Survey of Family Growth
The majority of Catholics?-72%?-believe that one can be a good Catholic without obeying the church hierarchy's teaching on birth control.
- National Catholic Reporter, 1999

Hispanic Catholic women use birth control.


Approximately 92% of U.S. Hispanic Catholic women have used contraceptives.
The percentage of married Hispanic Catholic women of childbearing age who use contraceptives is comparable to the percentage of married white Catholic women of childbearing age who use contraceptives?-73% vs. 74%.

-1995 National Survey of Family Growth

http://www.cath4choice.org/nobandwidth/English/contraception/catholics.htm

I graduated from Marygrove College -- obviously, a Catholic women's college -- in 1969. My "sister class" graduated in 1967. Not everyone in the class of '67 was sexually active, even the engaged girls, but all planned to take the pill. These women wanted a few years to work, travel, buy a home and enjoy being a couple before becoming mothers. Sensible.

During my freshman year of college, I dated my high school valedictorian, then a student at the University of Detroit. Since I wasn't sleeping with him and since I regarded him, by that time, as someone I grew up, i.e., no one I could feel romantic about, I felt free to date other men as well. By the beginning of sophomore year, I was dating and falling in love with a senior at the University of Michigan and the valedictorian had earned a debate scholarship to Notre Dame, so our dates faded into letters, which dried up as my relationship with the pre-med from Michigan deepened. Unfortunately, my parents disliked the pre-med and broke us up during my junior year, plunging me into year long mourning. The mourning ended, and I began dating again, this time, with sex as part of dating. At the end of senior year, Notre Dame called me during spring break. He now smoked cigarettes but was obviously lacking in sexual experience. Over drinks at a local bar, he started telling me that he wanted to have three children and that he would "probably come home from work and play with my children but wouldn't bother with my wife very much." Inwardly, I thought, "How charming! I bet that line gets lots of girls!" He asked me what I wanted and I repeated pretty much the program my sister class has: that I wanted to be married and to have a career; that I would work for a minimum of five years, preferably ten, and that during that time, my husband and I would travel, I would go to grad school and would write. "I don't understand why a couple wouldn't want a child right away! What would they do?" was his reply. I laughed. He asked me why I was laughing and I suggested he gain some experience. He's now a lawyer in Beverly Hills. I wonder what his life has been like.

Birth control marked the beginning of a womans true liberation and independence.

THe label used for praCTioners of THE RyTHem MeTHod is "ParenTs"

My thoughts exactly.