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From Page 1: "Three old friends, middle-aged mothers all, are having lunch together. Nancy is a Methodist minister; the other, Mary Ann, is Catholic and a pro-life exectutive; the third is myself, a convert to catholicism and freelance writer. The subject of contraception comes up. "Why can't you Catholics just do it the sensible way," says Nancy in a good-natured crack. "It may look sensible to you, Nancy, but you know the facts as well as I do: the society that accepts contraception inevitably comes to accept abortion, too." sates Mary Ann. As for me, like the tar baby, I ain't sayin' nuthin'. I listen to my two friends argue, their kind faces rigid and defensive now, and I am silent because I feel the 'tar' of my own sins. I once thought, like Nancy, that artificial contraception was sensible. But Mary Ann is right; a contracepting society becomes a society that sanctions abortion and euthanasia, as experience and research have shown. My friends are deadlocked within these two irreconcilable attitudes toward unnatural contraception: Is it sensible? Or is it a preliminary to genocide, or at least infanticide? The Catholic Church recognizes that there can be no resolution and no compromise between the two attitudes, as incompatible as oil and water."
