{"id":7854,"date":"2012-10-01T00:21:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T00:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=7854"},"modified":"2012-10-01T00:23:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T00:23:02","slug":"must-try-harder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/must-try-harder\/","title":{"rendered":"Must Try Harder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/The-Pill1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/The-Pill1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The Pill\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/The-Pill1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/The-Pill1.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Over at Patheos, Kathy Schiffer is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kathyschiffer\/2012\/09\/100-best-catholic-speakers-series-dr-janet-smith-tackles-life-issues-and-bioethics\">running a series<\/a> on the \u201cBest 100 Catholic Speakers\u201d and here she is with seminary professor Dr. Janet Smith, author of <em>Contraception: Why Not?<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Choice quote from Dr. Smith:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think contraception is an insult to women\u2026.  [W]omen basically apologize for their fertility. \u201cI\u2019m sorry. When I have sex I may get pregnant. Sure, I\u2019ll be glad to mess with my body to correct this humiliating and inconvenient feature of my sex.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don\u2019t know what it worse about that, the simpering pastiche of political correctness, or the utter logical breakdown.<\/p>\n<p>And then I note this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a seminary professor, Dr. Janet Smith is helping to shape the next generation of priests.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Patheos, Kathy Schiffer is running a series on the \u201cBest 100 Catholic Speakers\u201d and here she is with seminary professor Dr. Janet Smith, author of Contraception: Why Not? Choice quote from Dr. Smith: I think contraception is an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/must-try-harder\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[79,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7854"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7858,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7854\/revisions\/7858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}