Do you know the difference between the "Morning After" pill and the "Abortion Pill"? No? Neither did most of the legislators who passed laws on the first thinking it was the second.
With a new Pope coming from a region that needs (and quietly uses) birth control, you would think his stance on it is fairly moderate. But it isn't. The real news on the BC has nothing to do with priggish medieval social instititions and their quaint insistence that they are the last word on sexual morality. Rather, it is the revolution in birth control that we are on the brink of experiencing. The male version of "The Pill" is right around the corner, seemingly, and there are other safe, cheap and effective achoices for birth control on the horizon.
Time Magazine section on Birth Control (includes resources from around the web, including the New York Times).
http://topics.time.com/birth-control/
