{"quotes":[{"text":"Perhaps the greatest importance of the family, in these days of contraceptives, is that it preserves the habit of having children.","author":"Bertrand Russell","tags":["birth-control","children","contraception","family"],"id":290320,"author_id":"Bertrand+Russell"},{"text":"The Pope would have an easier job than the President of the United States in adopting a change of course. He has no Congress alongside him as a legislative body nor a Supreme Court as a judiciary. He is absolute head of government, legislator and supreme judge in the church. If he wanted to, he could authorize contraception over night, permit the marriage of priests, make possible the ordination of women and allow eucharistic fellowship with this Protestant churches. What would a Pope do who acted in the spirit of Obama?","author":"Hans Küng","tags":["catholicism","celibacy","christianity","church","clergy","contraception","ecumenism","eucharist","pope","priesthood","priests","protestantism","religion","women-clergy"],"id":399722,"author_id":"Hans+K%C3%BCng"},{"text":"Although every person makes mistakes, not every mistake makes a person.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["abort","abortion","child","children","condom","condoms","contraception","family","gestation","infant","miscarriage","mistake","mistakes","preggers","pregnancy","toddler"],"id":414012,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one of the two political parties that alternate in power in our governing institutions. It is akin to the view that global warming is a hoax, or that the budget can be balanced through spending cuts alone, or that contraception causes abortion, or that evolution is just another theory, on a par with the theory that the earth is six thousand years old.","author":"Hendrik Hertzberg","tags":["abortion","barack-obama","beliefs","birtherism","budget","contraception","evolution","global-warming","political-parties","politics","reality","republicans","theories"],"id":414962,"author_id":"Hendrik+Hertzberg"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}