PHILADELPHIA, 24 (NE)

    In its most recent editorial, the Archdiocesan weekly Catholic Standard and Times, has denounced the pressure from the pro-abortion group "Planned Parenthood" to include contraceptive drugs as a part of the medical insurance that the workers must receive from any institution as part of their rights. Having waged a legal campaign in Pennsylvania, understanding contraceptives as "good medicine" is under consideration, as well as the condition of pregnancy as a disease that must be healed.

    "Unfortunately, nowadays many accept the rhetoric of Planned Parenthood and similar groups, and see contraceptives as the cure for abortion and pregnancies out of wedlock or 'undesired.' Nevertheless, after 40 years, contraception and the desire for 'reproductive liberty' upon which it was founded, haven't solved but rather increased our social diseases, making it possible for people to separate sex from the procreation and to connect it exclusively to pleasure." Making this evaluation, the Weekly also considers the consequences of the devaluation of marriage, the increase in promiscuity and the erroneous vision of children as a burden, factors that the pro-abortion group apparently doesn't consider relevant to the matter.

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