Posted on 09/01/2009 10:12:10 AM PDT by NYer
British human rights lawyer, Cherie Blair has called on the Church to reconsider its opposition to artificial contraception because it may be holding back women's careers.
Ms Blair is wife of former Prime Minister Tony Blair.
She told an audience at Edinburgh International Book Festival she believed the church should be "more positive" about permitting women to use artificial birth control as a means of regulating their fertility, UK's The Herald reports.
A devout Catholic who encouraged her husband, Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister, to convert from Anglicanism after he left office in 2007, Mrs Blair has previously revealed that she uses contraception and that the couple's nine-year-old son Leo was conceived at Balmoral after she neglected to pack contraceptives for a stay with the Queen.
Promoting her new book Speaking for Myself, she said: "If you look at what progress women have made in the world, one of the reasons they have been able to make progress is because they have been able to control their fertility.
"I personally don't think there is anything wrong with that, and indeed without being able to control that I wouldn't have been able to achieve the things that I've been able to do.
"I think it's a really important issue and I would prefer it if the Catholic Church took a more positive attitude towards contraception because I think there's a lot of difference between preventing a life coming about and actually extinguishing a life when it has come about."
The Catholic Church in Scotland said Ms Blair was wrong to suggest oral contraception did not "extinguish" life. A spokesman said: "That is exactly what the morning-after pill does, while the conventional pill can potentially do the same."
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Blair: end Church's hard line on birth control (The Herald)
While you’re at it, Ms. Blair, why not repeal all laws? That way there’d be no crime! Now isn’t that something to contemplate!
Cheri, it's not about you. It's about God.
Few realize that up until 1930, all Protestant denominations agreed with the Catholic Church’s teaching condemning contraception as sinful. At its 1930 Lambeth Conference, the Anglican church, swayed by growing social pressure, announced that contraception would be allowed in some circumstances. Soon the Anglican church completely caved in, allowing contraception across the board. Since then, all other Protestant denominations have followed suit. Today, the Catholic Church alone proclaims the historic Christian position on contraception. read more.
Wow Cherie, so not the best example you could have picked.
Church authority and traditions they hold to are a large reason people like me are attracted to it and convert. After decades of moral realitivism in society I think people are looking for moral authority one can count on.
Forgot to add MS. Blair is an idiot and ugly to boot!
So nice to have been reassured on this point.
Definitely one who quacks with the CUAC ("Catholics United Against Catholicism.")
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Let me get this straight, the Catholic Church teaches that artificial contraception is a sin yet she uses contraception and is a devout Catholic. Isn't that a bit like a concientious objector in the Marine Corps suggesting that life would be so much better if they would just give up those nasty guns.
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Maybe the Church should add a Cherie Blair ban to her (the Church’s) list.
> A devout Catholic who encouraged her husband, Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister, to convert from Anglicanism after he left office in 2007, Mrs Blair has previously revealed that she uses contraception...
Doesn’t that sorta make her a Living Contradiction?
> British human rights lawyer, Cherie Blair has called on the Church to reconsider its opposition to artificial contraception because it may be holding back women’s careers.
His Holiness would never hold back the careers of women working in the service of Our Lord. God is, after all, an Equal Opportunity employer.
The "authority" is based on scripture.
Cheri, dear, that’s not going to happen with the Catholic Church. Are you showing a little bit of your lack of knowledge about Catholicism by even voicing such an idea?
Good find. That could be a thread in itself.
Bless you!
Amen.
By his nature, man recognizes comfortable enticing lies as empty and wretched - and even if he embraces them out of convenience for awhile, these lies eat at his soul and damage him. Eventually a mature man will make a break from such lies and seek the balm of truth that soothes and heals.
By his nature, man recognizes uncomfortable demanding truths as utterly beautiful - and even if he rejects them out of convenience for awhile, these truths draw his attention and imagination. Eventually a mature man will allow himself to be further drawn into the balm of truth that soothes and heals and order his life toward seeking it in all aspects of his life.
Our hearts are truly restless, as Augustine says, until they rest in Him, and that is because the natural law - whose author is God - is written on every man’s heart.
Praise God that you and I and so many others recognize our need to be vigilant and overcome the lure of the empty lies each and every day so that we might free ourselves to be servants and beneficiaries of the truth.
**Our hearts are truly restless, as Augustine says, until they rest in Him, and that is because the natural law - whose author is God - is written on every man’s heart.**
You would love the book I am currently reading, “Rediscovering Catholicism? by Matthew Kelly. O’m about half way through it. (With a week to finish it — LOL!)
Not at all. Natural Family Planning is a form of abstinence which is totally biblical.
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