Sterilization device for women approved

CNN ^ | Monday, November 4, 2002 Posted: 5:44 PM EST | n/a

[Flying Circus]

Can you comment any more deeply than leveling personal insult?

[kstewskis]

Have you read this article/thread yet?

Caution: might make your husbands squirm a little!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/726777/posts

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Nah - its a waste of energy trying to convince the mentally ill that they're stupid. Besides, you represent a fraction of a fractional percent of theological thought in this country, and are marginalized by your own stupidity and extremism.

[jstone78]

>>>>I have not hurt one living soul by having my tubes tied.<<<<

But you would be contributing to what Pat Buchanan describes as the "death of the west".

[Flying Circus]

I take that to mean that you are intellectually incapable of producing a reasoned response.

And while my comments don't come with an Imprimatur or a Nil Obistat, I think they reflect the official position of the Catholic Church. With over a billion adherents world wide, it is hardly a marginal group. Extreme, maybe, but then again the founder, Jesus Christ, was seen as something of an extremist in his day too.

[HassanBenSobar]

Once again, I cheerfully (if not mirthfully) disagree.

[Flying Circus]

And God bless you for it!

[aruanan]

The government has approved the first nonsurgical method of sterilizing women,

I thought chlamydia was the first nonsurgical method of sterilizing women.

[hocndoc]

Each of us is free to believe and practice what we want about truly personal or religious matters, as long as we don't infringe on the rights of others.

We agree that abortion and contraception are not equivalent. No one's life is ended through contraception. No one's rights are infringed. Therefore, contraception is not a matter for public legislation or government interference.

You have shown that you don't believe that it's immoral to avoid pregnancy, within marriage. It seems that neither of you believe the motive (avoidance of pregnancy) is not a sin. I know that you don't believe that it is, or you couldn't recommend natural family planning. Your dispute is with the manner, using artificial methods.

We will have to disagree on the immorality of contraception by medicine. I believe that Paul tells us in 1 Cor 7 that sex is not only for procreation. Married couples are to have sex in order to prevent immorality that is a risk for those not given the gift of celebacy.

[Lorianne]

Good post.

At present, vasectomy is less medically risky than most forms of female contraception, less medically risky than sterilization, less apt to fail, cost less to perform, and has fewer post-operative complications than tubal ligation.

Within the next 5 years we should have a easily reversible vasectomy procedure perfected as well.

[Lorianne]

Great post. Thanks