Catholic Bishops Need to Vocally Speak Out Against Abortion, by Christopher Manion Ph.D.

“The small family is the American ideal, except for the unambitious poor, chiefly foreigners not long enough in the country to have absorbed American ideas.” wrote Lydia Kingsmill Commander in The Independent on October 18, 1904.

My father, the youngest of nine, was six years old at the time. Apparently, my grandparents disagreed with Ms. Commander, for which I will be eternally grateful.

But the “experts” did agree with her. After all, she “followed the science,” citing “a family doctor who [practices] in the Italian quarter of New York”:

“The large families of the Italians are easily understood,” he told her, “when we realize that almost nothing is spent raising the children … They produce as freely and naturally, and they expect their children to look out for themselves almost as early as animals do.” …

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