[Scrambler Bob]

Using contraception is an “intrinsic evil”

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How about the Abstinence method?

[metmom]

“Archbishop Naumann confirmed the Church’s teaching on contraception as a moral evil, as well as Church teaching that each and every conjugal act must be open to life.”

Well, that kind of rules out NFP, doesn’t it?

Funny, when God pronounced the curse on Adam and Eve, He said that Eve's conception would greatly increase. IOW, before the fall, most of sex would NOT have been for the purpose of having children.

[Salvation]

Abstinence is OK. So is Natural Family Planning — part of that planning is abstinence.

[kelly4c]

But I thought we are supposed to submit to our partners if at all possible when they want sex? Read that somewhere in the Bible, yes I did. If one did such thing who could afford that many kids in this era?

[Mrs. Don-o]

Abstinence is not contraception, which means altering the act of intercourse (by some action before, during or after) so as to sabotage its natural fertility.

Abstinence is to contraception as silence is to lying.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Abstinence is not contraception, which means altering the act of intercourse (by some action before, during or after) so as to sabotage its natural fertility.

Abstinence is to contraception as silence is to lying.

[Mrs. Don-o]

The abstinence method never intentionally impairs the fertility of a sexual act, as contraception does. And therein lies the problem with the drug-devices-surgery methods: the directly deliberate disabling of the "gift of self" which is marital union.

Ethically, any directly intended disabling of a bodily organ or system --- whether an eye, an ear, a leg, the reproductive system --- is morally objectionable.

When I say "directly intended," that means "not as a therapeutic measure." For instance, removal of a cancerous uterus. When I say "disabling," that means blocking normal function, whether temporarily or permanently.

It's particularly unethical with regards to the reproductive system, since (1) sex is sacred, meaning at least that you don't target parts of it to split off and reject, and (2) the cumulative results of a whole society accepting the premises (rejection of natural sex and fertility) is destroying a understanding of natural gender and sexual identity, destroying natural marriage as an institution, shrinking and weakening families, nations, and civilizations.

Note what contraception (as a mentality and as a technique) has "accomplished" in 50 years. It's the gateway of the "Culture of Death."

Think I'm kidding? Look around you.