Wow!   I have not heard that one before.  That is truly Ghastly!!

My father was a professor at a College run by Jesuits, and I remember, as a teenager, when I questioned why the church was so against birth control.  My dad told me that there is an old adage among the clergy.  Keep the women barefoot and pregnant, and the laity will be too exhausted and have so little money, they wont have the means or energy to rebel against church rules and teachings.

It is creepy because it is true.  If you have 20 kids to raise, you don't have time to argue how wrong sexism or clericalism or anything else is in the church.  Effective birth control discontinued women as baby making machines and now we are demanding justice in the world and in church - as we always should have.