{"id":7956,"date":"2019-04-18T19:25:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T23:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=7956"},"modified":"2019-04-22T16:33:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T20:33:31","slug":"why-doesnt-any-bc-service-not-shc-provide-any-birth-control-std-prevention-isnt-that-just-ignorant-and-damaging-to-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/04\/18\/why-doesnt-any-bc-service-not-shc-provide-any-birth-control-std-prevention-isnt-that-just-ignorant-and-damaging-to-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Why doesn&#8217;t any BC service (not SHC) provide any birth control\/STD prevention. Isn&#8217;t that just ignorant and damaging to students?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/aw041819-1.jpg\" alt=\"Why doesn't any BC service (not SHC) provide any birth control\/STD prevention. Isn't that just ignorant and damaging to students?\" class=\"wp-image-7940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/aw041819-1.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/aw041819-1-300x278.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>Why doesn&#8217;t any BC service (not SHC) provide any birth control\/STD prevention. Isn&#8217;t that just ignorant and damaging to students?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Catholic Church&#8217;s position on birth control is longstanding and relatively recently updated (http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-bc), so from that perspective it would be strange for a Jesuit school to offer those sorts of services. The New Catholic Encyclopedia&#8217;s article on birth control has a good overview of the history of Church thought on the subject (http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-bc2). Professor Massa recently wrote a book on the evolution of theological thinking on it. (http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-bc1) You&#8217;re asking a practical question, but in this case the theology and history are the reason for the policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic Church&#8217;s position on birth control is longstanding and relatively recently updated (http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-bc), so from that perspective it would be strange for a Jesuit school to offer those sorts of services. The New Catholic Encyclopedia&#8217;s article on birth control has a good overview of the history of Church thought on the subject (http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-bc2). Professor &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/04\/18\/why-doesnt-any-bc-service-not-shc-provide-any-birth-control-std-prevention-isnt-that-just-ignorant-and-damaging-to-students\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why doesn&#8217;t any BC service (not SHC) provide any birth control\/STD prevention. Isn&#8217;t that just ignorant and damaging to students?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-college","category-health-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7978,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7956\/revisions\/7978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}