By Elizabeth Scalia | patheos.com

Interesting and well-done story at the WaPo, which profiles a young woman who actually took the time to learn the Catholic position on our bodies and birth control and “fell in love with it”:

Ashley McGuire fell in love with the Catholic Church five years ago, after reading its teaching against artificial birth control.

McGuire, then a skeptical Protestant college student, initially saw the ban as a mandatory march to “domestic slavery.” But the more she read, the more she was blown away by the idea that sex — and women’s bodies — must be about more than physical pleasure.

Okay, that’s inartful but stick with it. President Obama and Sec’y Sebelius have opened a door, and young women with fresh perspectives and no old resentments or rhetoric playing like tapes in their heads are walking through.:

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