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  4. From: creps@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu (Steve Creps)
  5. Subject: Re: Supreme Court Upholds Freedom of Speech
  6. Message-ID: <C1J642.2rK@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
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  10. Organization: Indiana University
  11. References: <1726@tecsun1.tec.army.mil> <14042@optilink.COM> <1737@tecsun1.tec.army.mil>
  12. Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:55:14 GMT
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  14.  
  15. In article <1737@tecsun1.tec.army.mil> riggs@descartes.tec.army.mil (Bill Riggs) writes:
  16. >"direct inverse correlation". Clayton apparently knows one Prostestant
  17. >couple that felt led (by scripture, presumably) not to practice
  18. >birth control, found out that it didn't work out, and ended up practicing
  19. >a more extreme form of birth control in the end. I don't know of any
  20. >religious group that bans vasectomy - although not being Catholic, I
  21. >really don't know what the official line of Mother Church is after all.
  22.  
  23.    Sterilization procedures are not permitted of Catholics.  They are
  24. considered not only artificial contraception, but also (and this word
  25. is used as a technical term) "mutilation."  That is, they destroy the
  26. human body's natural ability to perform some function, in this case to
  27. reproduce.  A surgical procedure which is necessary for other medical
  28. reasons, but which has as a side-effect sterilization, is however
  29. permitted (if the "other medical reasons" are serious enough).
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  32. Steve Creps, Indiana University
  33. creps@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
  34.