Birth Control, Contraception Don’t Stop Abortion, Help Women

I can’t count the amount of times I’ve been asked what my stance is on contraception. It’s not breaking news that many oral contraceptives and some invasive barrier methods (IUD) have been proven to cause abortion, including the highly controversial ella and Plan B drugs, and I stand firmly against the use of anything that destroys a life created at conception. But what about contraception that prevents conception from taking place?

I’m not the only one who has gotten this question; people want to know how the pro-life movement as a whole feels about this.

In fact, the medical students we reach out to face this question on a daily basis.

This question is a hard one to answer, which is why many avoid it: What is the pro-life movement’s stance on contraception, including methods that prevent conception?

As a physician, what is the right decision to make when a woman asks for birth control? What if she is living below the poverty line, has 3 or 4 children, hasn’t obtained a high-school diploma, and is co-habiting with a man who needs to support her financially? Presumably, she’s aware of the possibility of pregnancy and could be afraid of how she will feed and clothe another child.

1) Birth Control, no matter what form, doesn’t prevent abortions. In fact, it provides a false sense of security.

Contraception gives women a false sense of security, and condoms and birth control clearly can’t be relied on as a fail-proof method of stopping a pregnancy from occurring.

2) Birth control comes with it’s own complications and risks. It some cases, it’s deadly for both the child and mother.

Aside from condoms, oral and invasive methods of birth control come with their own complications. In addition to blood clots and strokes, chemical contraceptives have been proven to end the life of a preborn human mere hours or days after conception by thinning the uterine lining and making implantation more difficult for the developing person. Invasive methods that are implanted into your upper arm or uterus come with the same set of risks to both the mother and child. The most common form of hormonal contraception, the pill, has been categorized by the World Health Organization as a Group I carcinogen. That’s the highest possible ranking; cigarettes are also Group I.

One only has to read the inserts that come with chemical contraception, listen to commercials for hormonal birth control that spew out a long list of side effects, or glance at Facebook ads calling for women who took Yaz birth control pills to contact a law firm to join the lawsuit (google Yaz and lawsuit!) to grasp the unbelievable amount of life-altering consequences of imbibing hormonal birth control.

3) Condoms and birth control are everywhere. You can obtain them for free, yet the abortion and STD rate hasn’t fallen.

Planned Parenthood and county health departments have been giving out free condoms and birth control for years. Yet, the unplanned pregnancy, abortion, and STD rate in America has failed to fall and, in the case of STDs, has significantly increased. Despite this evidence, the Obama Administration just issued a new ruling forcing all health insurance plans to cover birth control with no deductible.

What’s even more scary is that Planned Parenthood knows this. They actually rely on the failure of the contraception they provide to increase their abortion profits.

4) Finally, and most importantly, birth control – in any form – is a Band-Aid.

It seems like the best way to answer the question regarding the pro-life stance on contraception is to emphasize helping women as a whole instead of handing out a temporary “fix”.

Dolling out free condoms isn’t social justice. Handing over a pack of pills to an uneducated mother living in poverty with a man who doesn’t respect her enough to marry her isn’t restoring proper relationships in her life. At the end of the day, what have you accomplished? You’ve just acknowledged her tragic situation by implying, “I don’t know how to help you”, or, “I don’t have time to help you, but here, use these and hope for the best.”

Protecting women from the scarring trauma of abortion and repairing broken relationships in her life seem to be the best way the pro-life movement can restore true social justice – Christian justice – to this woman’s life.

These are my thoughts on how we can make a real impact, but the pro-life movement needs to come together and agree on one answer to this question. Unity will only help us protect more women and the pre-born from the injustice of abortion.

“I’m not sure which part of Humanae Vitae does that. I don’t recall ever getting a letter from the pope telling us how to spend our money.”

Dern, Wagglebee, you are one charitable person.

Myself, I get all irate when I see libtards ignoring the actual issues and pretending that contraception is nothing more than “spending money.”

“I’m confused by your concern with nose-sticking, nosiness, and this seeming epidemic of voyerism. I don’t know anyone like this. At all.”

That’s a narrative the left created to draw people’s gaze away from the real issues.

“Years later, the arguments are the same only with different names.”

Not always. Since I began these asynchronous conversations on line, back around 1990, I have been forced by evidence and reason to change my opinions on the existence of God, extramarital sex, same-sex attraction disorder, abortion, the legalization of drugs, divorce, the nature of marriage, play-pretend women clergy, altar girls, and probably a bunch of other stuff I don’t remember right now.

I persuaded at least one person that SSAD is not a good thing, albeit over a period of months.

I don’t know how much good is done by standing up to Satan and all his works on line, but I am persuaded that it is more than none.

“I don’t think that what is going on in one small section of cyberland is affecting any election outcome.”

One brick in the wall, perhaps, but still one brick.

“When did all of this become NEWS to anyone?”

There are book-smart, well-educated people who are leftards *despite* those facts rather than because of them. I think the baptismal vows explain that thoroughly in one phrase: “The Glamor of Evil.”

“In the catholic church there is a great divide between liberal and conservative catholics...the more you agree with the Church on these issues - the more likely it is you will be pulling the “R” lever.”

Spot on.

When people speak of leftism, they are usually referring to economic leftism (which makes a people poor), political leftism (which enslaves a people), and social leftism (which robs a people of moral standards and artistic discernment).

There is, however, another form of leftism—one that is rarely called by its name. This is theological leftism, and it may be the worst of them all, as it leads one away from God while insisting on its own superiority to “outdated tradition.”

Now, we know that all leftism is of and from Satan. We observe how the proponents of leftism lie constantly, attempt to deceive, coerce those who won’t be deceived, and extol the tolerance of evil—including abortion, divorce, sodomy, promiscuity, and even mass murder. This is true as well of theological leftism. It seeks to foment disobedience to God by appeal to a “more modern,” and therefore superior, “understanding” of the Bible.

When we seek to discern whether a given premise or movement is theologically leftist, then, we can look for several telltale characteristics.
1. Does it claim an understanding of Scripture that is superior to what existed before?
2. Do its proponents rely extensively on falsehood when discussing differences?
3. Do its proponents engage in coercion, either inside our outside their own group?
4. Does it claim the moral superiority of the tolerance of evil, particularly that which allows the indulgence of the sin of lust (divorce, sodomy, promiscuity, etc)?
5. Above all, does it countenance the slaughter of the most innocent?

There are theological leftists within the Catholic Church, yes, but because its foundations are solid, they have been unable to bring it down. It appears that evil within the Church has reached its high-water mark and is receding, laus Deo.

One need not look far to find churches that are totally under the sway of the five telltales listed above, and some within them display one more characteristic of theological leftism: blind, irrational hatred of the Catholic Church. When such people attempt to criticize the Church, they do so with all the hatred, illogic, and dishonesty shown by any other sort of leftist.

It is worth noting that one can be a theological leftist while retaining conservative beliefs in the economic and political realms.

“I would suppose an atheist conservative would be a business minded, supply sider. I would even expect them to be anti-abortion (ex:godlessprolifers)”

Conservatism is a seamless garment. There are no gaps, no disconnects, no conflicts, no contradictions in this world view. However, many—perhaps all—of us who have recovered or are in the process of recovering from default liberalism in our youth recover one step at a time. Even after a “road to Damascus” experience, we may first come to understand the issue of abortion, but continue to think that extra-marital sex, divorce, and sodomy are just fine. Next, perhaps, we have an epiphany on divorce, then a couple of years later our eyes are opened on the subject of extra-marital sex. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And, of course, all fall short.

Over the past 12 years, I have seen recovering liberals at all stages here on FR. I have gone through stages myself. And I have also come to think that economic conservatism by itself is little more than the love of money. Sure, economic conservatives understand how a country makes itself prosperous, but how are they different from the cynic who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing?

I will admit that I have never seen in the eyes of an economic conservative that whacko, vacant, Stepford-human googledygob stare you find in the eyes of a “social justice” Catholic. That may be because economic conservatism is not of and from Satan, whereas the Earl of Hell has to have his hooks in you pretty deeply before you can accept the horrors of abortion, promiscuity, divorce, and sodomy.

Still, economic conservatism is incompatible with sexual libertarianism, because those vices cost society a lot of money and other resources. Ditto divorce and promiscuity. And the only way all those things can be brought into line is through God. If you fail to grasp that God exists, you will be dealing with or repressing contradictions constantly.

IMO, a person who is an atheist is not a conservative. He is a liberal who understands some economics.

“Not once have I seen it presented that jews vote democrat because the catholic church opposed artificial birth control.”

Best I can tell, many Jews vote Democrat for the same reason blacks do: they are convinced that Republicans are prejudiced against them.

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