Posted on 07/18/2018 6:55:42 PM PDT by marshmallow
Penny Mordaunt spoke after meeting the President of the Pontifical Academy for Life
A British minister has called on the Church to permit artificial contraception after a meeting with senior Vatican officials last week.
Penny Mordaunt, the International Development Secretary, said 800 girls and women lose their lives every day due to pregnancy and childbirth complications, and claimed that wider access to contraception would help alleviate the problem.
Faith leaders should help change “deeply held beliefs and attitudes” in order to allow women greater access to “reproductive healthcare”, she said.
Ms Mordaunt disclosed her words to the Daily Telegraph after meeting Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, and Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Secretary for Relations with States.
She told the newspaper: “Child marriage, and a lack of control over their own bodies or access to reproductive healthcare including contraception means many girls have no hope of completing an education.
“It is crucial we engage with faith leaders to help us challenge deeply held beliefs and attitudes.
“The Catholic Church can help us in that and my appeal to them was to help us save lives, especially of young mothers.
“As we work with African leaders to help them build their nation’s it is vital that family planning is part of that plan. It will save lives and huge suffering.”
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicherald.co.uk ...
At that point the Catholic Church becomes just another superfun rock band church.
Accepting this as true for the sake of argument, one of the mechanisms by which birth-control pills work is by preventing implantation of a fertilized egg in the uterine lining.
This is also the primary means by which IUDs work.
If one takes the position that "Life begins at conception", then far more than 800 girls lose their lives every day due to their mother's birth-control practices.
England...
Even Protestants were united with Catholics on contraception issue until the Lambeth Conference of 1931. The Church of England bailed and further spiralled down their descent into liberalism.
Looks like you’re an Ann Barnhardt reader. ;-)
And if those those feet in ancient time did walk upon England's mountains green he better not have been healing anyony the NHS decided must die.
Insane.
Anyway, oral contraceptives are in the same class of carcinogens as cigarettes
They don’t say that because pharmaceutical companies
Dont have to say it. They are protected
And far more than 54 million babies have lost their lives since 1973
:-D
I wasn’t referring to active explicit abortions; I’m referring to the very-young babies who died due to their mother’s “pills” and IUDs.
The 54 million abortions are above and beyond that.
you can’t have birth control you’ll run out of soldiers
and he also went into the many Islamic mosques to say this same message??
No. The 54million abortions are reported surgical abortions. Thats the start. The restt is many multiples. Most oral contraceptives cause abortions which are not counted in that number. The number is more like 340 million. It used to be on the CDC website but that has been sterilized
I think we’re both actually saying the same thing.
Ya
These are cultural issues that are not "fixed" by giving contraceptives to (or forcing contraceptives on) child wives with no cultural or legal autonomy.
You don't help girls and women if you start from the premise that being a healthy female is "the problem."
There is a common thread in modern society which claims it’s good to disable perfectly good organs ... birth-control pills, IUD, tubal ligations, vasectomies and then the whole “transgender” idiocy, lopping-off fully-functional parts entirely.
You can probably think of more examples.
Gastric bypass, although at least that treats a pathologic condition, rather than destroying healthy functioning for convenience or to accommodate mental illness.
On the other hand, birth control pills for women went ahead even though some women died during that study.
My point is that birth control pills are not the panacea they have always been made out to be. They kill women, not to mention the unborn babies.
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