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Contraception is a terrible solution for poverty

Contraception is a terrible solution for poverty

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Carl Beijer
Sep 28, 2015
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Pope Francis’s visit to the US – and the reminder of the Catholic church’s position on contraception – has revived another round of hand-wringing from liberals about poor people and their occasional fondness for babies. The standard position is that we should expand contraception access for the poor. Liberals generally argue for this by insisting that p…

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