[boatbums]

Irish politicians in America have always been crooks, but they didn’t turn pro-abortion until the Kennedys led the way, with the support of Cardinal Cushing (who was gay, and a buddy of Dr. John Rock, developer of The Pill).

Dr. John Rock was a Roman Catholic- a fact many seem to ignore. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rock_(American_scientist):

As his career progressed, Rock also became known for his acceptance of birth control. (Birth control was illegal in Massachusetts until the 1965 Supreme Court case Griswold v. Connecticut.) In the 1930s, he founded a clinic to teach the rhythm method, the only birth control conditionally regarded as moral by the Catholic Church. In 1931, Rock was the only Catholic physician to sign a petition to legalize birth control. In the 1940s, he taught at Harvard Medical School—and included birth control methods in his curriculum. Rock also coauthored a birth control guide for the general reader, titled Voluntary Parenthood and published in 1949.

[Arthur McGowan]

Rock also fertilized human eggs in vitro around 1950—which, of course, he destroyed. Prominent Catholics petitioned Cushing to excommunicate Rock for abortion, and Cushing ignored them.