O'Brien, Conan (host of NBC's "Late Night With Conan O'Brien")
"Tom's going off to be a Catholic priest,
he will spend his whole life in a state of celibacy
He'll never have sex or even know what it's like
and that's great believe you me.
Oh sex, he'll never have sex
He'll never have sex, Oh yeah sex
And someday all priests will be allowed to get married,
but then he'll be too old.
Young priests all are gonna be gettin' it on
and he'll be by himself.
A shriveled old man who's alone in his room
with his gonads on a shelf
Oh you'll always be horny, you'll always be horny,
you'll always be horny and you'll never have sex."
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Host Conan O'Brien sang this song mocking the religious vocation of a "random" audience member purporting to be a Catholic seminarian studying for the priesthood, on the October 17, 1998 broadcast of NBC's "Late Night With Conan O'Brien." Described in Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. 1998 Report on Anti-Catholicism, available on-line at the Catholic League's Web site here.
O'Brien, Mary (Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (E-LAW))
"To the degree that other species have no voice in the political process, they will be exploited and destroyed. We need to think in wider terms how to build into our political system, into the fabric of our society, a practical way of giving voice to other living beings."
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Mary O'Brien, staff scientist for the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (E-LAW), as quoted in Ron Arnold. "Eco-Terrorism." Reason, February 1983, pages 31 to 36.
O'Brien, Tim (ABC)
"Among the rights certainly to be affected this time: abortion. Brennan was a forceful advocate for women's rights and civil rights. ... Affirmative action programs which Brennan supported may now be doomed. Freedom of speech and press."
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ABC legal reporter Tim O'Brien on "World News Tonight," July 21, 1990, on Supreme Court Justice Brennan's retirement.
O'Connor, Sinead (Irish singer)
"Nobody has the right to tell anyone else what to believe. Especially the Catholic Church, with the amount of murdering and pillaging it has done ... I think organized religion is a crutch 'cause it's controlling. Organized religion tells you what to believe, tells you who to be ... It's an abuse to tell a child that God sees everything and knows what you think and that you are going to be burnt in Hell. It's a huge abuse to teach children that God is not within themselves, that God is bigger than them. That God is outside them. That is a lie. That's what causes the emptiness of children."
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Sinead O'Connor, quoted in Spin Magazine, November 1991, and in "Quote of the Month." Christian American, January/February 1992, page 9.
"We have confidence in the victory of good over evil. We must fight the real enemy [the Catholic Church]."
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Sinead O'Connor, as she tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II. Quoted in "O'Connor's Act Outrages many NBC Viewers." The Oregonian, October 6, 1992, page D2.
"I stand by that. I am as proud of that as I am of having my two children. ... "I can say about the pope thing, I'm very proud of that and I stand by it and I would do it again."
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Singer Sinead O'Connor, describing her feelings about ripping up a picture of Pope John Paul II on a 1992 episode of "Saturday Night Live" while declaring, "Fight the real enemy." July and November 1998 Spin Magazine interviews with Lisa Robinson and Chris Norris. Described in Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. 1998 Report on Anti-Catholicism, available on-line at the Catholic League's Web site here.
O'Hara, Scott
"When I was 12 and 13 years old I would have joined NAMBLA in a minute, because I knew I was gay and I wanted to go out and get laid, not just read The Gay Mystique all my life; I needed personal contact. We have a million gay children out there right now who are in the same boat, who know their sexuality, and aren't getting any support. Most of our supposed gay leaders are afraid to do anything with them. ... That means we're leaving the sex education of our youth to angry heterosexuals who don't understand. That's one reason NAMBLA is so important. They are willing to take the risks that no one is willing to take... . They're the only ones willing to acknowledge that adolescents actually do have sex lives. There is also a more basic reason why I support NAMBLA. They are the voice of dissent in the gay movement today. They're the whipping boy, the fashionable group to condemn. ... I say, watch out, tomorrow that whipping boy could be you... . In the efforts of the gay establishment to suppress NAMBLA I see the seeds of tyranny."
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Scott O'Hara, publisher and editor of STEAM Magazine, during the Spirit of Stonewall Press Conference at the Stonewall Bar, Greenwich Village, New York City, June 24, 1994. This quote was downloaded from the Web site of the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) at http://www.nambla.org on April 15, 1998, under the section entitled "What People Are Saying About NAMBLA and Man/Boy Love."
O'Leary, Jane
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"School counselors should be required to take courses in human sexuality in which a comprehensive and positive view of lesbianism is presented. Lesbians as well as heterosexual counselors should be represented on the guidance staff.
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The names and phone numbers of gay counseling services should be made available to all students and school psychologists.
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Courses in sex education should be taught by persons who have taken the [pro-homosexual] human sexuality courses already mentioned. Students will thus be encouraged to explore alternate life styles, including lesbianism.
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Textbooks which do not mention lesbianism or which refer to it as a mental disorder should not be used in sex education courses.
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Lesbian Studies: Schools should set up lesbian studies programs in connection with women's studies programs to foster pride in the adolescent lesbian and to show heterosexual students that lesbians have made significant contributions to society. Learning about these contributions would foster positive feelings on the part of all students.
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Libraries: School libraries should be supplied with bibliographies of lesbian literature and urged to purchase novels, stories, poetry, and nonfiction books that portray the joy of women loving women. The use of these books should be encouraged in literature and history classes.
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Lesbian Clubs: Lesbian clubs should be established in the schools. Such organizations would help lesbians to develop pride in their life styles, and to help overcome the prejudice of heterosexual students and faculty."
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Jean O'Leary and Ginny Vida. "Lesbians and the Schools." This article appeared in the New York National Organization for Women (NOW) Newsletter under the title "Struggle to End Sex Bias — Report on Sex Bias in the Public Schools."
O'Rourke, Joseph (defrocked Jesuit priest and former member of the 'Catholics' for a Free Choice (CFFC) Board of Directors)
"CFFC really was just kept alive for years because the mainline pro-choice movement wanted a Catholic voice."
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Joseph O'Rourke (former Jesuit priest and former member of the 'Catholics' for a Free Choice Board of Directors), quoted in Mary Meehan. "Foundation Power." Human Life Review, Fall 1984, pages 42 to 60.
"I am fathering a child for the first time. ...
"A case can be made that those called to a specifically "religious community" (like the Jesuits) rather than the "secular" life of the parish priest chose an obligation to more, and so had an insistent and organizational demand to marry and reproduce for the Church's freer future, once celibacy lost its institutional defenses. ... My religious liberty, to choose children with my priesthood, gains new life with this pregnancy. Now I feel even better about my fight for legal reproductive choice, for the religious liberty, rights of women who choose abortion and children.
"Tomorrow morning Carol will undergo, with my encouragement, a chorionic villi sampling test (CVS) to determine whether our child is chromosomally defective, and whether termination of the pregnancy should be considered. ...
"I believe free choice is the Roman Catholic position, and the only true "anti-abortion" position that works. I believe you can only "out-love" not outlaw abortion [NOTE: So perhaps we can say that the best "anti-rape" position is that which calls for the decriminalization of rape]. ...
"Only yesterday, I held Carol's hand and watched my baby, the future, The O'Rourke dance in the snowy dark of ultrasound. ... If my wife has an abortion without me, for reasons I didn't approve, wouldn't compromise about, couldn't comprehend, couldn't control at all, to avoid responsibility rather than to gain generosity, I'd be sad and afraid, and then angry, and finally, cold and decisive. It would be a deal-breaker, all right. I might even go to court — and it wouldn't be about her right to choose. I'd feel betrayed, lied to, stolen from. I'd think less of her I'd feel violated [NOTE: And this is from the same people that say that fathers have no rights at all in the abortion decision].
"[CFFC] Editor's Note: We received this article from Joe O'Rourke on July 19. ... That same day Carol O'Rourke received a call from her doctor informing her that the first test results from CVS indicated their child carried the gene called Trisomy 21, which results in Downs Syndrome. Joe and carol spent the day together. On Wednesday, Joe saw a priest, a theologian, three male friends, had lunch with Carol, and then they saw their doctor at 2:00 p.m., the geneticist at 3:00 p.m., and a therapist at 4:00 p.m. They terminated the pregnancy on Friday morning, July 22, 1988" [NOTE: O'Rourke referred to "my baby, the future, The O'Rourke" when he thought it was healthy. Then, when he found it was handicapped, he disposed of it as garbage. This highlights the exploitative, heartless, selfish and utilitarian mindset of pro-abortionists as nothing else could].
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Joe O'Rourke. "Ruminations of a Father to Be." Conscience (newsletter of 'Catholics' for a Free Choice), September/October 1988 [Volume IX, Number 5], pages 1 and 19 to 21 [italics in the original].
"I think that the Church's position on abortion is just bad Catholicism. It practically defiles the Declaration on Religious Freedom, is certainly inconsistent with any concept of social justice, and is effectively a prescription for mother death."
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Joseph P. O'Rourke, former President of 'Catholics' for a Free Choice, quoted in William McGurn. "Catholics & 'Free Choice'." National Catholic Register, February 14, 1982, 1, 6 and 7.
Obaid, Thoraya (United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA))
"China, having adopted practical measures in accordance with her current situation, has scored remarkable achievements in population control."
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Thoraya Obaid, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), to the Chinese People's Daily newspaper. Quoted in "UN Agency Still Praises China's Coercive Population Control Programs." Friday FAX [C-FAM (Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute], August 24, 2001 [Volume 4, Number 36].
Oberweis, James
"I think the Taliban is the best example that we've ever had about what is wrong about my trying to impose my religious views on you. ... I think that right now we're getting a very, very strong symbol in the Taliban of what can happen if we try to impose our religious beliefs on others."
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Republican businessman and United States Senate candidate James Oberweis, in the November 4, 2001 Springfield Journal Register and on the October 24, 2001 "Steve Dahl Show" (WCKG-FM). Quoted in "US Senate Candidate Compares Pro-Life Politicians to Taliban." LifeSite Daily News at http://www.lifesite.net, November 5, 2001 [NOTE: Oberweis, who is allegedly a Catholic, explained that the reason he is not a pro-life candidate is because that would put him in the same camp with the Taliban. He refused to apologize for his bigotry].
Obstetrics and Gynecology News
"Sonography in connection with induced abortion may have psychological hazards. Seeing a blown-up, moving image of the embryo she is carrying can be distressing to a woman who is about to undergo an abortion, Dr. Sally Faith Dorfman noted. She stressed that the screen should be turned away from the patient. Staff members may also be affected by sonographic images and may need opportunities for venting their feelings and reconfirming their priorities, Dr. Dorfman said."
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Obstetrics and Gynecology News editorial, February 15-28, 1986.
"The first six twin pregnancies to undergo selective termination at Mount Sinai Hospital 'worked out very badly,' with the unintended miscarriage of four unaffected fetuses as well as the six targeted for abortion. These first attempts involved the use of exsanguination [draining all of the blood from the unborn babies] or injection of saline or an air embolism [to cause heart attacks], Dr. Berkowitz said."
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"Selective Abortion in Multiple Gestation." Obstetrics and Gynecology News, August 1-14, 1989.
Ogilvy, Stewart M. (Friends of the Earth (FOE))
"The growth of numbers worldwide and the continuing overall growth rate suggest that more unofficial advocacy and purely voluntary compliance are not enough — certainly not enough to stimulate widespread reduction in population in the time we have left before population induced catastrophe. What's more, voluntarism guarantees big families for the ignorant, the stupid, and the conscienceless, while it gradually reduces the proportion of people who, in conscience, limit the size of their families. ... If the less stringent curbs on procreation fail, someday perhaps childbearing will be deemed a punishable crime against society unless the parents held a government license. Or perhaps all potential parents will be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the governments issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing."
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Stewart M. Ogilvy, Honorary President of Friends of the Earth. "Population." In Friends of the Earth. Progress as if Survival Mattered: A Handbook for a Conserver Society [Hugh Nash, editor] [San Francisco: Friends of the Earth], 1977, pages 70 and 71.
Olbermann, Keith (MSNBC)
"Can Ken Starr ignore the apparent breadth of the sympathetic response to the President's speech? Facially, it finally dawned on me that the person Ken Starr has reminded me of facially all this time was Heinrich Himmler, including the glasses. If he now pursues the President of the United States, who, however flawed his apology was, came out and invoked God, family, his daughter, a political conspiracy and everything but the kitchen sink, would not there be some sort of comparison to a persecutor as opposed to a prosecutor for Mr. Starr?"
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MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on MSNBC's "Big Show," to Chicago Tribune Washington Bureau Chief James Warren, August 18, 1998.
"I've got to know, Pat, why is this John Edwards/Lauch Faircloth race so important to the Republicans, other than the obvious that Senator Faircloth is considered to be one of the junior Grand Wizards of the vast right-wing conspiracy?"
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MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on MSNBC's "Big Show," to former Democratic pollster Pat Caddell, October 26, 1998.
Oliphant, Tom
"I've known Barney Frank since was in college. He's a man of surpassing integrity that I've never known to be questioned. I think he's a master politician, which people forget. He's also a magnificent Congressman, and above all, there is nothing in this episode that counters any of those other images, and I would expect him to survive this smear in good standing."
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Boston Globe Washington Bureau reporter and columnist Tom Oliphant, on "Inside Washington," August 26, 1989, referring to Frank running a homosexual whorehouse out of his Washington, DC townhouse.
Omenn, Gilbert S.
"When health insurers do enter the field [of genetic counseling], some enterprising company may offer to pay for amniocentesis and abortion, if indicated, but not for subsequent medical care of the offspring, should abortion be refused."
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Dr. Gilbert S. Omenn, Medical Genetics Division, University of Washington. Quoted in "M.D. Predicts Forced Abortion." National Right to Life News, July 1975, page 4.
Ontario Film Review Board (OFRB)
"This intelligent handling of a controversial subject, adolescent sexuality, does not glorify or glamorize the subject. If anything, this is an anti-sex film. ... the nudity in question was not gratuitous and was a legitimate choice for the filmmaker to make. I feel strongly that in such a situation, the board should exercise discretion."
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Ontario Film Review Board (OFRB) members Sara Waxman and Roger Currie on the film Fat Girl, which includes a scene where a 15-year-old is shown in full frontal nudity in a sexual situation and also a 13-year-old girl with partial nudity in a rape scene. "Ontario Retains Ban on Pedophilia Film After Appeal." LifeSite Daily News at http://www.lifesite.net, November 21, 2001.
Optimum Population Trust (OPT, United Kingdom)
"It is no longer responsible, or environmentally friendly, to bring three, four or more into the world. ... Each new UK birth, through the inevitable resource consumption and pollution that UK affluence generates, is responsible for about 160 times as much climate-related environmental damage as a new birth in Ethiopia."
"You've got to consider the environmental impact across the 80 years that each of these babies is likely to live. We've calculated that each UK child is going to cost the world the equivalent of 620 return flights between London and New York across a lifetime."
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John Guillebaud, co-chairman of the Manchester-based Optimum Population Trust, and Rosamund McDougall, a member of the Trust's advisory council, speaking in support of their idea that every UK family should be limited to two children. "British Population Control Group Says UK Families Should be Limited to Two Children." LifeNews.com, July 16, 2007.
Osborn, Frederick (American Eugenics Society and Population Council)
"Every visiting nurse, every doctor, every social worker knows that there are families where more children should be encouraged and there are parents who should be discouraged from having more children, because the children will grow up to be a burden on society. ... I feel certain that all those who are in a position to give advise on contraception are already showing some bias. That is, they are exercising their own judgement in the advice they give as to size of family, because they do not want to see children growing up with the burden of a bad social inheritance."
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Frederick Osborn, President of both the American Eugenics Society and the racist Pioneer Fund and co-founder of the Population Council. "Contributions of Planned Parenthood." Eugenics Review [1953, Number 3], page 159.
"[Francis Galton] published his Hereditary Genius ... he envisaged the eugenic movement as something that would sweep the world and make man at last the master of his own destiny on earth. It has not happened. The eugenic movement is nothing but a few small handfuls of men in various countries. ... They are not influencing public opinion. The very word eugenics is in disrepute in some quarters. ... We must ask ourselves, 'what have we done wrong?' I think we have failed to take into account a trait which is almost universal and is very deep in human nature. People simply are not willing to accept the idea that the genetic base on which their character is formed is inferior and should not be repeated in the next generation. We have asked whole groups of people to accept this idea and we have asked individuals to accept it. They have constantly refused, and we have all but killed the eugenic movement. ... it is possible to build a system of voluntary unconscious selection. But the reasons advanced must be generally acceptable reasons. Let's stop telling anyone that they have a generally inferior genetic quality, for they will never agree. Let's base our proposals on the desirability of having children born in homes where they will get affectionate and responsible care, and perhaps our proposals will be accepted."
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Frederick Osborn, President of both the American Eugenics Society and the racist Pioneer Fund, and co-founder of the Population Council, during his 1956 Galton Lecture, quoted in the obituary by his son in the Bulletin of the Eugenic Society, 1981 page 47.
"An even more serious threat to the genetic equilibrium is the saving of life through new medical techniques and improved public health measures. ... The old proposals had no solid scientific basis; the newer eugenic policies are based on recent large-scale studies of population trends in this country and on the recent findings of geneticists, sociologists, and psychologists. ... The new eugenic policies do not give offense. Everyone wants children to be wanted children. ... Heredity clinics are the first eugenic proposals that have been adopted in a practical form and accepted by the public. The word 'eugenics' is not associated with them. ... at a level somewhat above that of the mentally deficient, there are a substantial number of families among whom employment is irregular, who are constantly on and off relief. ... their birth rate is high. ... probably as many as half their children result from pregnancies that are not wanted at the time, or ever, by one or both parents. ... A reduction in the number of their unwanted children would further both the social and biological improvement of the population. ... People won't accept the idea that they are in general, second rate. We must rely on other motivations ... a system of voluntary unconscious selection. ... Let's base our proposals on the desirability of having children born in homes where they will get affectionate and responsible care ... so that eugenics will move at last towards the high goal which Galton set for it. ... Eugenic goals are most likely to be attained under a name other than eugenics. ... The most important eugenic policy at this time is to see that birth control is made equally available to all individuals in every class of society."
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Major General Frederick Osborn, nephew of eugenicist Henry Fairfield Osborn, member of the Advisory Council (1928-1981), Director (1935 and 1969-1972), Secretary (1936 and 1954-1959), Treasurer (1969-1973), Secretary/Treasurer (1936-1945 and 1960-1968) and President, (1946-1952) of the American Eugenics Society. The Future of Human Heredity: An Introduction to Eugenics in Modern Society [1968], pages 81, 91, 93, 94, 98, 104 and 105.
Osgood, Charles
"The best defense it seems somehow is going on the offense now. While seedy stories in the media seem to be getting ever seedier. Each reporter in his turn sounds more and more like Howard Stern. A great investigative boom reporting who did what to whom. We see so many different styles of accusations and denials. When so much mud around you flies, you are bound to get some in your eyes. When such a war has been declared, everyone's in, nobody's spared. The jokes, the snickers, and the flippery. The slope we're on is long and slippery. And there is something in the air which this country best beware: for there is danger in the dirt and lots of people could get hurt. And what we sow, we someday reap. Last night as I laid down to sleep I dreamed an apparition swarthy, the unshaved ghost of Joe McCarthy."
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Charles Osgood, CBS "Saturday Morning," February 28, 1998.
OutRage (British homosexual group)
"We do not believe that consensual actions between adults, no matter how bizarre they might appear to the majority, are any concern of the law or its agents. Thus we seek to legitimize consenting actions in bath-houses and saunas, 'backrooms' in pubs, and all group sex in private, including sado-masochistic games. ... We would also like to extend the concept of "private" to include public lavatory cubicles and after-dark 'cruising' areas. Since recreational sex is a natural activity and popular pursuit, all laws which seek to control it should be abolished ... The whole basis of the current homosexual control laws is moralistic and based on a largely medieval concept of Christianity which we believe has no place in a pluralistic democratic society. ... sensitive consideration should be given to examples of [sexual] experimentation between those just above and just below a fixed age of consent."
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Submission to the British House of Commons by the homosexual group OutRage, led by Peter Tatchell, in support of lowering the age of consent for sex. Cited in "Britain Panders to Homosexual Pedophiles." LifeSite Daily News at http://www.lifesite.net, February 11, 2000; and Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor. "Gay Groups Seek to Legalise Sex in Public Lavatories." Daily Telegraph, February 11, 2000. The latter article stated that "They [the homosexuals] have made clear that yesterday's Bill to equalise the ages of consent for homosexual and heterosexual acts is only the start of a concerted effort to remove all legislative restrictions upon homosexual activity and relationships."
Outweek Magazine (homosexual publication)
"The lesbian and gay press is heavily dependent on revenues from phone-sex advertising. ... Outweek [Magazine] last year found that in the absence of phone-sex advertisers, many of the [homosexual] community's newspapers and magazines would simply go out of business."
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Editorial in Outweek Magazine, April 10, 1991, page 26.
Owens, Walter
"I insisted upon telling the parents that this still would not be a normal child ... that they did have another alternative, which was to do nothing. In which case, the child [would] probably live only a matter of several days ... some of these children [born with Down's Syndrome] are mere blobs."
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Obstetrician Walter Owens. Transcript of April 13, 1982, No. JU-8204-038A (Circuit Court of Monroe County, Indiana), the "Baby Doe" case.
Oxnam, G. Bromley (United Methodist Bishop)
"Procreation is not the only purpose of sex, and those who in the name of religion defile a holy and beautiful relationship that has its own intrinsic values do themselves commit sin. Christian parents are morally obligated to plan for the coming of their children.
"The proper spacing of children is an expression of love, and therefore is a religious obligation. Those who condemn such planning as sinful commit sin, and cast reflection upon Christian men and women who in love take those steps necessary to the spacing of children and the health and happiness of the home."
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United Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, quoted in "Family Planning is Moral Duty, Religious Leaders Say." Planned Parenthood News, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), Winter 1955, page 3.
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