Contraception was designed to limited population growth.
I wonder too, if contraception has helped change people’s behavior, and attitudes, about sex.
Young people today have grown up in a time in which it’s considered ok to have sex outside marriage, any number of partners, any gender of partners. It’s actually cool to be gay or have experimented with it among some.
Contraception plays into that, because while some people crossed the line in the old days, they knew that there were certain risks they were taking. Probably some people thought twice in the old days, so that fewer people crossed that line.
Nowadays, people talk openly about their birth control methods, as if it’s a given that of course they have sex with their boyfriends. And as we see with the recent debates about birth control in health plans, many today see access to birth control as some unalienable right.
Heck, if you even ask the question, about why a young healthy unmarried college girl needs to be on the pill in the first place, you get flamed badly, even on a conservative leaning site such as this one.
> Contraception was designed to limited population growth.
Contraception is the same spirit as Abortion: destruction of God’s greatest blessings.
See my tag line.
By the way, God’s penultimate blessing is, “I will multiply your generations.”
God’s penultimate curse is, “I will cut off your seed.”
Many people today, even Christians, are rejecting the blessing and volunteering for the curse.
Chesterton on birth control/population control: In 1925 Chesterton wrote an introduction to Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in which he said that “The answer to anyone who talks about the surplus population is to ask him, whether he is part of the surplus population; or if not, how he knows he is not.”