Article ID: CBB498708290

The ‘Converted Unbelievers’: Catholics in Family Planning in French-Speaking Belgium (1947–73) (2020)

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This paper looks at the journey of eleven counsellors in marital counselling centres in French-speaking Belgium, from the creation of the centres in 1953, to the 1970s, when contraception became legal, and abortion became a public issue. At the time of Humanae Vitae, groups of volunteers, working within Catholic organisations where counselling took place, began to structure their activity around Carl Rogers’s ethics of client-centred therapy, placing their religious ideology in a secondary position to focus on the problems experienced by the couples and women they were receiving in the centres. These were often challenges they were experiencing themselves in their own lives. The reiteration of the Catholic orthodox view on contraception through Humanae Vitae marked a gap between the counsellors and the Church. This contribution questions the identity-related tension of Catholics working in conjugal counselling centres and the type of commitments they made to both the conjugal centres and the Church in a moment where family planning was debated both in the Church and politically.

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Authors & Contributors
López, Raúl Necochea
Ignaciuk, Agata
Selhausen, Felix Meier zu
Weisdorf, Jacob
Szuhan, Natasha
Rusterholz, Caroline
Concepts
Birth control; contraception; sterilization
Family planning
Medicine and religion
Women and health
Reproductive medicine
Public health
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, late
18th century
17th century
Places
United States
Peru
Germany
Great Britain
Uganda
Americas
Institutions
Family Planning Association (FPA)
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