Friday, April 15, 2016

Zika's no-pregnancy warnings put Catholic teachings under pressure

As health authorities struggle to organize a response to the Zika virus, a mosquito-borne infection many suspect is linked to a sharp rise in fetal abnormalities in Brazil, their best advice is simple: Don't get pregnant. That recommendation could be hard to execute anywhere in the world. But it could prove particularly difficult in Latin America, where many people's attitudes, and often laws, carry the imprint of the Catholic Church, whose catechism bars all artificial birth control. ...
http://m.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2016/0203/Zika-s-no-pregnancy-warnings-put-Catholic-teachings-under-pressure


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