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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I'm saying if she is a member of a church where men have all the control and make having lots of kids and not using birth control a main tenent of belief -- no, she is not making that choice freely.[/quote]

What church(es) would that be?

"Power" is a product of far more than an institutional office alone. I'm not aware of any institutional church (at least in the US) where men have any power to compel anyone to believe or disbelieve anything, or to act or not in any particular way regarding the number of children any given woman might have. It is a very low opinion of women to view them as some kind of puppets hypnotized by an externally imposed religious program against which they are powerless to resist.

An intelligent, well-educated woman is capable of reading into the matter and making a decision that is not in accord with the prevailing Malthusian ethic that demands sterility from women in exchange for economic rewards, instead of working for social and working conditions that do not force women into the Hobson's choice of a career or as large a family as they might like if they were making a free choice.

The practical, social and ethical arguments against artificial birth control have developed over centuries. One proceeds from a position of ignorance and contempt before investigation when one simply dismissed them without considered study of the relevant propositions.[/quote]

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