How is contriception linked to lowering morality

[LittleDeb]

The story of Dorothy Day (former suffragette and founder of The Catholic Worker) is also a good reference for it. Women were denied the right to vote in western civilization thanks in part to issues like contraception. We women know what happens when we know the truth about our bodies. We will not be silenced! Contraception is not a new problem. It is just a new face on the same old problem, sin.

I wanted to clarify something I wrote here because it sounded confusing upon rereading. Some supporters of the suffrage movement were anti-contraception/abortion and some were pro-contraception/abortion. It was a splitting topic. My own great-grandmother was unable to support the suffrage movement because of its strong ties to contraception and abortion.

Suffragettes who were against contraception saw its promotion as one more way to lower them in society. It was one more way to imprison them. Pro-contraception suffragettes believed it was being tied to babies that was keeping them uneducated and therefore not ‘allowed’ to vote. Dorothy Day sought out the Catholic Church after nearly aborting her daughter. She switched sides on abortion after that. I am not sure however if she ever fully renounced contraception or not. She did remain celibate for the rest of her life.