Joseph Bottum has this commentary in First Things. He writes:
. . . Paul VI issued four general prophecies in Humanae Vitae, and on about all four of them, he seems to have been right.
He said, for instance, that universal acceptance of contraception would have the social consequence of creating men who had lost all respect for women . . .
Paul VI predicted, as well, that the institution of marriage would have trouble surviving “the conjugal infidelity” that contraception makes easy . . .
Humanae Vitae added that the general acceptance of contraception would put a “dangerous weapon” in the hands of “those public authorities who take no heed of moral exigencies.” . . .
