Brad Snyder, MD, FACS, FASMBS Professor of Surgery at McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

•Understand the cultural atmosphere at the time that prompted Pope Paul VI to address the issue of birth control.

• Understand the structure and content of the encyclical as laid out by Pope Paul VI. Specifically, what was the problem, the reply, and how it is to be lived out.

• Explain the effects of birth control, the encyclical, and the Church’s response to both.

This audio download is from the 43rd Annual Meeting of the American Academy of FertilityCare Professionals. The PowerPoint associated with this presentation is available to AAFCP members in the file library of the member portal.