I know that birth control is a sin. But would you be willing to compromise a bit and agree that abortion is worse, and see the overall good that support of comprehensive sex education and birth control could do. To include actual charitable giving towards both teaching and providing access to birth control to low income people?
An overwhelming number of abortions are to women that are either at or close to the poverty level.
<<Catholics; Would you support birth control as a method to reduce unwanted pregnancies and abortions?>>
No. There are no morally proper applications for artificial birth control if it is used as a means for it’s intended end.
<<I know that birth control is a sin. But would you be willing to compromise a bit and agree that abortion is worse, and see the overall good that support of comprehensive sex education and birth control could do.>>
GET THEE BEHIND ME SATAN!
Evil only begets more, and quite often worse, evil. Evil never begets good. People, despite their best intentions, have only brought about more evil whenever they’ve tried to justify evil for the sake of good.
<<To include actual charitable giving towards both teaching and providing access to birth control to low income people?>>
If charity and promotion of abstinence are employed, there is no reason to bother with using artificial contraception – lest you wind up creating confusion with your mixed signals. I told you, evil only begets more evil.
<<An overwhelming number of abortions are to women that are either at or close to the poverty level.>>
the use of artificial contraception is not an economic issue. It is a moral one.
Hello,
I have no problem with birth control. I have not been in agreement with my church on that and there have been many bishops and Catholic theologians that agree. To date, no Pope has spoken ex cathedra on the matter so the subject is still up for debate. Catholics are told to carefully weigh the church’s current teachings on birth control but ultimately they must follow their own conscience in the end.
As for premarital sex aka, fornication, condemned by most Christian churches, the sin is the same and whether I thow on a condom or not, my soul is in much the same state.
Cheers,
Michael Kelly
I agree. Catholics follow a belief system that was created by man, not by the words of Jesus. Catholics (which I was raised to be) seem to be against everyting that is human nature. I don’t recall Jesus saying anything that is specific to abortion, birth control, or the nature of simple having sex with someone you love, or don’t. To me, catholics have missed Juses’ point all together – and that is don’t be a douchebag.
Catholics don’t believe in birth control.
So what do you think their answer will be? Geez…
No. The only way to really prevent abortions and/or unwanted pregnacies is abstinence. Abstinence is the only real kind of birth control, the only completely natural kind, and one the Church agrees with.
I would not agree at all…why can’t these women just keep their legs shut! Sorry, but they bring it onto themselves.
>>Would you support birth control as a method to reduce unwanted pregnancies and abortions?<<
Absolutely!
>>I know that birth control is a sin.<<
Nonsense. The Catholic Church teaches that controlling birth is part of responsible parenthood.
"With regard to physical, economic, psychological and social conditions, responsible parenthood is exercised by those who prudently and generously decide to have more children, and by those who, for serious reasons and with due respect to moral precepts, decide not to have additional children for either a certain or an indefinite period of time." (Humanae Vitae 10)
"If therefore there are well-grounded reasons for spacing births, arising from the physical or psychological condition of husband or wife, or from external circumstances, the Church teaches that married people may then take advantage of the natural cycles immanent in the reproductive system and engage in marital intercourse only during those times that are infertile, thus CONTROLLING BIRTH in a way which does not in the least offend the moral principles which We have just explained." (Humanae Vitae 16, emphasis mine)
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-vi_enc_25071968_humanae-vitae_en.html
This form of birth control can be as effective as the Pill:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6375261.stm
Mother Theresa wouldn’t like it. St. Theresa, I mean. Thanks to her good works, there are 1,000,000 more people with AIDS and 10,000,000 more people born into abject poverty and misery. Praise the horde.
Well, understand what you are asking.
"Roman Catholics: would you support sin as a method to reduce sin?"
The answer should be obvious. Only those who do not view the use of contraceptives as sin (in contradiction to the tenets of their faith) could rationally answer "yes". Morally, the end *never* justifies the means.
Jim, http://www.christianwebprogramming.com/br/selector_rc.html