The sexual revolution did not happen accidentally.
Long before the widespread normalization of contraception and abortion, influential foundations, academics, and activists already understood that the two would become inseparably linked. Early contraceptive trials carried severe consequences for women, yet the movement continued forward aggressively—because the goal was always much larger than medicine alone.

Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J. examines the historical relationship between contraception, abortion, population control movements, and the growing conflict with the Catholic Church, which remained one of the strongest institutional opponents of the emerging sexual revolution throughout the 20th century.

The conversation also explores the role major philanthropic organizations allegedly played in funding conferences, academic influence, and cultural change inside Catholic institutions during that era—and why debates surrounding contraception remain so spiritually and politically charged today.