Vas ist das Guttmacher Institute?

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“[A] non-profit organization that promotes reproductive health and . . . started as an arm of Planned Parenthood”?  

Oh?

And its 98% of Catholic women claim?  Even when “a supplementary table in the report, on page 8, appears to undermine that statistic, since it shows that 11 percent of Catholic women currently [use] no method at all. “?

Huh?

The claim that 98 percent of Catholic women use contraception: a media foul – The Washington Post.

The study is here, btw.

Published by Jim Bowman

Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by.

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