contraception (a percentage close to 100 percent, while the percentage of married couples using contraception in the general public is more like 85 percent). While he acknowledges that cause and effect cannot be directly proven, he asserts, “In my experience, no single factor as directly and as gravely injurious to marriage as taught by [the] Church occurs nearly as frequently in the histories of those who eventually divorce as does contraception.”9 He concludes that, even if birth control does not
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