Happy Birthday, BC Pill!

Hard to believe it's been 50 years. So many innovations to make our lives both simpler and more complex; this is the beauty of modern life. We might be able to imagine life a hundred or more years ago without a pill or even a lot of reliable barrier methods to prevent pregnancies. No wonder so many families were larger back then.

And yet the Catholic Church still wants women to churn out new converts as fast as their bodies can stand. Well, not the entire Church - just the Pope, beginning with Pope Paul VI, who had a few commissions going about the Church's stance on contraception in the 1960s. Read more here. I love that everyone overwhelmingly voted to change the policy, and the Pope didn't listen.

If women don't listen to this edict, will they listen to other teachings of the Church? I guess that's the Church's problem.

In writing news, I received two rejections this week. Tough, but I resubmitted one and I'm looking to rewrite the other. The editors had some good points.