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What do Catholic women think about contraception?

The organization "Women, Faith, and Culture" intends to tell us:
Our preliminary report, What Catholic Women Think About Faith, Conscience, and Contraception, probes the views of church-going Catholic women and analyzes their knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes about the Catholic Church and her teachings on family planning. This Preliminary Report is part of a larger research effort, the Women, Faith, and Culture Project, that explores the perspectives of church-going Catholic women on a wide array of issues related to faith, sexuality, and reproduction. 
The preliminary report can be found on the Women, Faith, and Culture web site. It takes a little bit of hunting around, but you can download a pdf copy of the report from there.

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 Women, Faith, and Culture web site

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