It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. – H.L. Mencken, Notebooks, 1956

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