Since I'm the one responsible for carrying and raising the babies I have I believe I should have a say in when enough is enough.
By the time I had my 3rd my body wasn't able to carry him and I was in bed for 6 months to keep him alive. No way was I about to get pregnant again only to have to lose it.
My tubes were cut, tied and burnt and anything else they could do to em. ;)
I don't know... the thought of putting my privates into a boiling pot of water to sterilize them just doesn't seem that enjoyable.
(/sarcasm)
If you don't play the game you don't make the rules.
2399 The regulation of births represents one of the aspects of responsible fatherhood and motherhood. Legitimate intentions on the part of the spouses do not justify recourse to morally unacceptable means (for example, direct sterilization or contraception). |
2370 Periodic continence, that is, the methods of birth regulation based on self-observation and the use of infertile periods, is in conformity with the objective criteria of morality. These methods respect the bodies of the spouses, encourage tenderness between them, and favor the education of an authentic freedom. In contrast, "every action which, whether in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible" is intrinsically evil:
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Good article. Thanks for posting it.