# Morality, Contraception & Religion in Post-War America

Samira Mehta discussed the history of contraception and religion in America, the subject of her recent research at the Library. Some clergy in post-World War II America framed the need for contraception in theological terms, including morally-inflected understandings of marriage and the family and Biblically-based commandments to care for the earth. Mehta's talk forefronts the role of ministers and rabbis in using their clerical authority to make contraception socially acceptable, but also in creating a moral language that would be used in support of birth control long after religious voices were the movement's strongest advocates.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2017
- By: Library Of Congress
- Genres: War, Education, Religion
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021690650/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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