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by BuckyF on October 9th, 2003

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Why does the Catholic Church discourage birth control?

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  • by Anonymous on March 20th, 2005

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    The Church does not believe in artificial birth control because using birth control not only says "I/we don't want to take the natural conseqeunces of sex which is for the purpose of procreation {not just for it, but a major and integral part}, but I/we don't care what God thinks about this." It's saying that you don't want to work with God and be partners with him in his will. If he doesn't want a woman to conceive, it won't happen. Birth control says that the humans involved don't want it to happen, and whatever God has planned, it's taking a backseat.
    NFP as a form of birth control is accepted because it encourages knowledge of self and communication between partners, and it does not artifically attempt to interfere with God's plans. As I said before, if God doesn't want a woman pregnant, she will not be.
    Also, there are at least three other reasons the Church does not accept non-natural birth control. Things like condoms are not acceptable, because of a relationship to the story of Onan and Tamar in the Old Testament.

    "(9)so when he went in to his brother's wife, he wasted his seed on the ground in order not to give offspring to his brother. 10But what he did was displeasing in the sight of the LORD; so He took his life also. (NASB Gen 38)

    Birth control such as the Pill and hormonal means are unacceptable becuase they can cause abortions.

    Finally, scientific research and logical consensus have determined that where there is a proliferation of artificial birth control, there is a surge in selfish sexual behaviors and results such as out of wedlock sex and children and abortions.

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    • There are way more unwanted children when you discourage a group of people from using contraception. That's even more logical

      Relsqui

      by Relsqui on July 12th, 2005

    • Not really, Relsqui. When there is no birth control people become more responsible and think about the consequences of their actions. If no person on earth could acquire birth control, do you think sex would be far, far less frequent? Of course it would.

      crdto7

      by crdto7 on December 2nd, 2009

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