Why Birth Control Is Suddenly a Hot Issue
09 April 2012
Demonstrators in March outside the Health and Human Services headquarters in Washington. One sign says, "Fertility Is Not a Disease."
JUNE SIMMS: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm June Simms.
BOB DOUGHTY: And I'm Bob Doughty. Birth control is usually a private issue. This week on our program, we look at some of the reasons why this issue has been getting a lot of public attention recently in the United States.
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JUNE SIMMS: Peter, Chris, Lisa and Patty are college students here in Washington. They all attend George Washington University. They also have something else in common. They are all Catholic. They share the belief of the Roman Catholic Church that using contraception to prevent new human life is morally wrong.
Peter -- we'll just use first names -- says he knows that belief puts him and his friends in a minority in the popular culture around them.
PETER: "I believe that our generation -- my generation -- has been brought up with a different form of family planning than our parents, than our grandparents. My mother's one of nine. I'm an only child. We were taught, 'Do you want to have that many kids?' Sort of pushed: 'Do you want to plan how many kids you have?'"
BOB DOUGHTY: Chris agrees. He remembers what he was taught at the public high school he attended in New Hampshire.
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