text: I am sure he was supporting the clerical culture of undifferentiated asexuality, as well as preserving the myth that the Pope cannot err on these issues. Had he endorsed the already revised commission's report it would have been the death of that myth. As for 2000 years of tradition, which early Christian writer wrote about contraception? The tradition you are citing predicates Christianity. It is stoic, likely supporting the asexual ideal of Plato and his philosophers. The asexual hierarchy (and it is a prized orientation for that group) doubled down. This had nothing to do with legal abortion (not even Ronald Reagan had signed his abortion law by then, unless I am mistaken). Serving tradition could be preserving truth, but there had been a Church commission showing this was not the case. Error repeated is still error. The resulting disobedience of this decision proves it was disaster. It did not serve the Church or God.