I’ve responded twice to your question.
The *heart* should be that children are a gift, and that we should be inclined to welcome them as a gift. That should be our default attitude.
Sometimes, though, we may choose to postpone or avoid pregnancy, because of a variety of reasons. In those instances, contraception (NFP, barriers, vasectomy, etc.) is acceptable. It is appropriate to consider such a decision prayerfully, and cautiously, taking into consideration our motives for doing so.
We should recognize that some “contraceptives” actually do kill fertilized eggs, by preventing their attachment to the uterus. In that case, they are not contraceptives, but abortifacients, and are morally wrong.
My Apologies. I missed your earlier reply.
“The *heart* should be that children are a gift, and that we should be inclined to welcome them as a gift. That should be our default attitude.”
Ok. The teaching of the Catholic church is that all sex should be open to children. For that is part of the purpose for what sex is for.
“Sometimes, though, we may choose to postpone or avoid pregnancy, because of a variety of reasons. In those instances, contraception (NFP, barriers, vasectomy, etc.) is acceptable.”
So you are ok with both contracepted sex and sterlization. So you really don’t believe that sex should be open to children.
Upon what verse of the bible do you base your opinion that using condom and sterilization is ok?
“We should recognize that some “contraceptives” actually do kill fertilized eggs, by preventing their attachment to the uterus.”
No, you are wrong here. There are no ‘fertilized eggs’. Egg and sperm cease to exist at conception.
The term for a single cell formed after the fusion of egg and sperm at conception is a zygote.
What abortifacients do, is they kill the developing embryo, as you said, by hardening the endometrium and preventing implantation into the uterine wall. In this, they are not ‘contra’ conception at all, in that they permit conception to occur. This applies to the pill and other forms of abortifacients.
Why is this relevent?
What’s the difference between sterilized sex and what homosexuality is arguing? Both are ways of removing sex from procreation.