[BenLurkin]

Abortion is wrong.

Condoms are a good idea. For disease prevention if nothing else.

You’ll never reduce poverty as long as poor people keep having children, and that’s just the way it is.

[ebb tide]

Condoms are a good idea.

Oh, yea of little faith. Christ told us that the poor will always be amongst us.

Why would you object to the conception of a soul that has a chance to get to Heaven, whether or not the child was born into a poor family or a wealthy family?

Were the Blessed Mother and St Joseph poor or wealthy?

[utahagen]

“Condoms are a good idea. For disease prevention if nothing else.”

That’s not the Catholic Church’s position, so Catholic organizations cannot promote (directly or indirectly) the distribution of condoms. Here’s an analogy: I believe in Jesus Christ, but I respect Jews’ right to refuse to support organizations that promote Christian beliefs and practices. If Catholic Relief Services wants to be, well, Catholic, it cannot promote contraception or be in cahoots with organizations that do. Just common sense.

[Hambone 1934]

You wouldn’t say condoms were a good idea if you knew the truth about the racist roots of birth control..Planned Parenthood started out pushing birth control to control the poor,immigrant population..It has never been about poor women having a choice...

[Mrs. Don-o]

Far better to exercise the power to decide when and whether to become pregnant by using a moral and healthy method like Natural Family Planning (NFP). Advantages of NFP over condoms:

• more effective than condoms (NFP 98%, condoms 85% at best -- both only when used correctly and consistently)
• more respectful of sex as a unitive act
• more conducive to male/female cooperation (method's effectiveness is based on husband/wife cooperation)
• highly more conducive to marital communication
• costs absolutely nothing
• does not violate marital privacy (nobody has to know if your are "accepting" or "not accepting" this form of family planning)
• morally acceptable to all religions
• can be used to achieve as well as to postpone pregnancy
• cannot be used coercively by the State.

Can't get any better than that.

Condoms, on the other hand, encourage promiscuity rather than comprehensive husband/wife communication, cooperation, and mutual respect. Condoms foster vice (sex with anyone, anytime) rather than virtue (wise and loving self-control). Condoms foster an attitude of working against the body, rather than working with the body.

That last one has profound implications because it condoms,m being basically sabotage against human sexual design, lays a profound attitudinal groundwork for abortion.

Don't take my word for it. Check out the history. Condoms have never reliably enough prevented pregnancy (would you use a parachute that was only 85% reliable??) but very effectively habituates people to the sluttification of sex and contempt for its natural consequences.