Humanae Vitae and the 1960s and 1970s
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Women have struggled to gain civil rights from men from the beginning of time. It seems that every century women have gained more freedom than the century before. During the 1960s and 1970s women began to fight for their freedom. Many joined Women's rights groups that tried to make women equal to men. It seems as when women were trying their hardest to become equals, that the Catholic Church was trying to keep them where they were. The Humanae Vitae was written based on the opposite of what the majority of what the commission thought was better than the laws that Catholics had previously followed. The Humanae Vitae did not address the needs of American Catholics or it did not support what was happening with people in society during the 1960s and 1970s.
During the early 1960s, President John F. Kennedy, a Catholic himself, established the Commission on the Status of Women. This commission gathered data on the status of women in federal and private employment, protective labor laws, women's education and financial security, and childcare...