Posted on 06/09/2010 10:16:39 PM PDT by Brian Kopp DPM
Here’s another one from Janet Smith.
Most people still believe that contraception is different from abortion.
I really can’t find any moral reason to be against contraception. The only link I’ve noticed between contraception and abortion is that people engaging in the latter very rarely bother with the former.
Well, all of Christianity up till 1930 was against it, based on scripture and Natural Law. That's good enough for me.
By 1960, all of Christianity had caved on contraception, except Catholicism (and to a lesser degree the Orthodox.)
You got it right there. First divorce became okay, then contraception, then childlessness, now homosexuality. Strange how the first book of Romans in the Bible says this is how things go. What is meant by women turning away from the natural function of their bodies THEN lusting aver each other?
it is ironic how the advent of the pill did little to stop unwanted pregnancies if abortion is any guide
Here it is: the separation of the procreative from the unitive aspect of sex. In the words of the infallible God-breathed Humanae Vitae: “The Church, nevertheless, in urging men to the observance of the precepts of the natural law, which it interprets by its constant doctrine, teaches that each and every marital act must of necessity retain its intrinsic relationship to the procreation of human life.”
You could read the whole document here:
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-vi_enc_25071968_humanae-vitae_en.html
Still can’t find “a moral reason to be against contraception”?
This is like the sixth or seventh thread you’ve done. Is this the Catholic caucus or what?
Well, a few questions then. What types of contraception were even available in 1930? The oldest forms of birth control included coitus interruptus, pessaries, and the ingestion of herbs that were believed to be contraceptive or abortifacient. The earliest record of birth control use is an ancient Egyptian set of instructions on creating a contraceptive pessary. Condoms in some form or another are probably the oldest form of "barrier methods" but coitus interruptus goes back to ancient Biblical times.
It wasn't until the 18 th. century that the link was made biologically between the sperm and the fertile ovum causing fertilization. Once this was discovered, various methods were devised to prevent this from happening or if it did occur, to prevent implantation and normal gestation. Birth control in some form or another has been around for thousands of years. Seeing babies as consequences for illicit sexual pleasure is hardly a new concept.
No. Its called a Religion Forum.
On the other hand, dangerous medications which cause increased morbidity and mortality should be stringently regulated. If the birth control pill were an NSAID or a heart medication, it would have been outlawed years ago because of the known high number of mortalities associated with their use.
You wrote:
“The only link I’ve noticed between contraception and abortion is that people engaging in the latter very rarely bother with the former.”
False. Overwhelmingly those who have abortions have used contraceptives. They might not have used them consistently, but they used them and quite often. People who embrace the contraceptive mentality invariably come to “tolerate” or embrace abortion.
One ends a pregnancy (stops a beating heart, KILLS a baby) the other simply prevents one from taking place, thus keeping people that do not want a child from having to raise one.
“I just want Christian to know that everything that’s legal ain’t necessarily moral.”
Is it moral to produce more children than you as a married couple can support?
Certainly, and for two thousand years, Christianity has universally taught that it is immoral, without exception until 1930.
I have no problem if your religious conscience tells you not to use birth control. I do have a problem when 1. you want to make your beliefs on contraception law (not very likely) and 2. (More likely) I and millions of other tax payers have to pick up the tab for your brood.
Christianity has lost its sense of Divine Providence, and therefore embraced contraception.
At its root, that is a loss of Faith in God.
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