For Catholics of a certain age, John Rock’s name evokes distant battles. Popularly viewed as the “father” of the birth control pill (“stepfather” was more accurate, according to Rock), the Boston physician and cradle Catholic was also famous for a 1963 book that argued for a modification of the church’s ban on all modes of artificial contraception. (The book was gho (...)
November 21, 2008
Books
Bitter Pill
The Fertility DoctorJohn Rock and the Reproductive RevolutionMargaret Marsh and Wanda RonnerJohns Hopkins University Press, $29.95, 384 pp.
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