Life Limiters Ltd. whining again.
About 50 self described "Catholics for Choice" groups which is a mis-nomer for their choice not God's have written the Pope an open letter stating that the birth control ban should be lifted. The argument about stopping HIV transmision on persons who have no control over themselves might pursuade. Yes, they should give condoms to people in high HIV/Aids populations.
I write however in defense of the ancient tradition of birth control by abstinence and natural birth control- and provide argument as to why the theological logic behind the Pope's position is still valid for all people who are seeking God's life.
I don't trust the chemical manipulations attendant to these cycle inhibiting/disrupting birth control procedures which are mostly targetted at women's systems-which is why I never indulged in them (who knows what all actually causes various cancers...) Not only do they lead to damaging health issues potentially in women which are widely understated (irregular heartbeats, headaches, potential clotting problems, swelling, and others including potential future infertility), but they create dependencies. In unmarried women they can create the morally dangerous illusion and false security that casual sex has no consequences ---because if they can eliminate the physical consequences, the emotional and spiritual ones can be equally dispensed with as the faulty emotional logic goes.
Thus birth control pills to women can be damaging-physically, emotionally and spiritually. They are currently overperscribed for things like plasias and have far reaching side effects. Some of them stop a menstrual cycle all together for months at a time which just plain screws you up. They are another example of the pharmaceutical industry exploiting a population- all procreating age women- for profit.
The notion that one should be open to life in so far as it is God's will to gift it is something in the modern pill popping age that is desensitized to the point of incomprehension. It is also something wasted on youth. The blocking of life in one age can be regretted in another- such that a twenty something who spent a decade stopping the life flow can be mornfully regretful to learn they have no children in their 40s.
Life even at an inconvenient time should be welcome at all times. Because Life is from God.
He gives a window of time on earth for people to try to make a go of it- if you block it off, you block off God's very life flow on earth.
The reality is that intimate relationships are not going on merely to procreate and people cannot support a child every two years being born-and such intimate relationships (in marriage) have intrinsic value even absent the procreative ability. Can people support a child every time God wills it to be born? Maybe, maybe not- but should material support be the guideline for when we receive life or not- or is that the reduction of a materialistic idolistic age we find ourselves in.
These are the questions that should be asked and the Pope is free to answer them however he wishes.
The heart, as Pascal advises, has reasons that reason knows nothing of.
Giving Condoms to prevent HIV should be looked at however, as more or less the same moral equivalent of giving methadone to heroine addicts. Healthy people should not be given methadone- but heroine addicts need it. They are an accommodation to a morally fallen world.
They prevent disease-end of story. The church should assist in Jesus' mission of healing everywhere- even in morally fallen areas of the world, because he loved us all yet while we all sinned. To not give condoms when there is a statistically great liklihood that they will prevent disease is morally indefensible. Because moral people will conclude they should not use them or don't need them is not a valid moral rationale to condemn or stop their use for those to whom it could be life preserving.
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