{"id":2080,"date":"2007-06-02T10:05:07","date_gmt":"2007-06-02T10:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2007-06-02T10:05:07","modified_gmt":"2007-06-02T10:05:07","slug":"one-in-the-eye-for-the-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2080","title":{"rendered":"One in the eye for the Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And also very good, sensible news: Brazil is going to <a href = \"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/world\/story\/2007\/05\/29\/pill.html\">subsidise birth control pills<\/a> for the poor.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dulce Xavier, a Catholic who runs a group advocating for women&#8217;s reproductive rights, says Brazilians simply aren&#8217;t listening to the Vatican.<br \/>\n&#8220;There is total disobedience to church doctrine on sexual reproduction,&#8221; she says.  &#8220;The majority of Catholics here use condoms, take the pill and support limited access to abortion.&#8221;<br \/>\nAccording to the government&#8217;s own estimates as many as one million women a year are having abortions in Brazil, even though they&#8217;re illegal, except for cases of rape or where a mother&#8217;s life is in danger.<br \/>\nAbout 4,000 women die from the procedures annually, making it the fourth-leading cause of maternal death in Brazil after hypertension, hemorrhages and infection.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why particularly the Pope? Well he was there two weeks ago running all the usual &#8220;I want to control women&#8217;s bodies&#8221; stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And also very good, sensible news: Brazil is going to subsidise birth control pills for the poor. Dulce Xavier, a Catholic who runs a group advocating for women&#8217;s reproductive rights, says Brazilians simply aren&#8217;t listening to the Vatican. &#8220;There is total disobedience to church doctrine on sexual reproduction,&#8221; she says. &#8220;The majority of Catholics here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}