This is why I made it clear that current methods of contraceptives are next to useless. They do give people a false sense of security that leads them to have lots of sex which then results in pregnancy when the method inevitably fails. When contraceptive technology takes the leap forward I described, the result will hopefully be a dramatic reduction in abortions.
Contraceptives demean women because women become a vessel for sex. While sex can be a wonderful experience between man and wife -- and sometimes downright fun -- sex can also be demeaning, demoralizing and exploited.
No, they don't demean anybody, come on Gophack. They are tools that married and unmarried people can use to avoid children resulting from recreational sex. What's important here is the concept of contraception, not any particular device. Even the Roman Catholic Church supports the concept of contraception within marriage, but only of the "natural" variety. Fine. But this is a distinction without a difference. It makes no difference whether you get down during periods of infertility, or whether you party after popping a pill -- what matters is that whatever method you use work.
Just because people are going to "do it" doesn't mean we have to support that mentality. We need to change the mentality, change the attitudes of people. This isn't impossible, but it's not going to be easy.
People are people. They're not going to change, at least not where sex is concerned. Sex is a natural and very powerful urge which we all have -- we were designed to have it. The simpletons among us engage in sex without any planning or concern for the consequences. Unfortunately, those people will not change either. Their ability to do damage as a result of their behaving like animals (having abortions) must be neutralized by whatever means necessary. Their reproductive systems must be controlled so that we can keep them from aborting their children. It seems to me as though you are waiting around for a Christian utopia to manifest and cure abortion and all of it's surrounding issues. Well, if that's true, then you should admit to it now so that I can count you as totally useless in the cause of stopping abortion. We have to deal with the world as it is, not as we would like it to be. If we continue to hold out for utopia, the distraction will doom our efforts to save the unborn.
First, I support the notion that people should abstain from sex before marriage. Yes, it's hard; yes, we have natural urges; but we are not animals and we can control ourselves if we choose to.
Second, Natural Family Planning (NFP) is a scientifically proven method used by practicing Catholics to space children, or to prevent conception due to financial or other reasons. NFP is more effective than any other form of birth control.
There is a BIG difference between NFP and "popping a pill." NFP doesn't and never will induce an abortion. Many current contraceptives procure early abortions.
When discussing the difference between NFP and contraception Pope Paul VI expressed it this way in section 16 of "Humanae Vitae," "In the former, the married couple make legitimate use of a natural disposition; in the latter they impede the development of natural processes."
But reasons and arguments aside for the moment, isn’t a good part of the real problem the simple fact that those who raise their voices so stridently against the Church’s teaching simply don’t want to govern their sexual appetites, and therefore, by default become enslaved by them?
God bless.