Posted on 05/29/2006 11:00:20 AM PDT by profamilyissues
The Growing Contra-Contraception Movement: Organic sex is "in"
The controversy surrounding emergency contraception has inadvertently put the spotlight on other forms of contraception.
A fledgling movement, known as the contracontraception movement, is gaining momentum in light of this debate.
Unfortunately, this movement has been mischaracterized by the media. Articles like "Contra-Contraception" by Russel Shorto and "The Battle to Ban Birth Control by Priya Jain chalk up this effort as some sort of religious movement.
These articles simply avoided the non-religious issues or distort the facts. "Contra-Contraception" avoided many important points regarding the harms of artificial birth control on marriage, society and women's health. "The Battle to Ban Birth Control" simply denied that contraceptives were harmful by calling the claims of this movement "bogus health facts." Neither adequately addressed the health aspect of contraceptives.
While there are religious denominations which oppose contraception on multiple grounds, people are opposing contraception on health reasons alone.
Many women, in an effort to live healthily, who have turned to organic and unprocessed foods. They have come to also realized that artificial contraception isn't very healthy either, and that its numerous side effects should be avoided. They believe that thee negative effects of artificial contraceptives should not be minimized for sake of convenience, and the truth should not be distorted for the sake of political ideology.
Organic foods have come of age, so isn't it time that "organic sex" comes of age also? More and more couples believe so.
But what exactly is organic sex? Its sex without contraception -- natural sex of course! Pregnancy can be avoided or achieved through the use of Natural Family Planning (NFP).
Natural family planning is not your mother's rhythm method, and it's not just for the religious. As the article "Natural family planning: Not just for Catholics anymore" points out, natural family planning is rising in popularity outside of Catholic circles.
Spearheading this contra-contraception movement is the "No Room for Contraception" campaign. This group features a website which focuses on the negative impact contraception has had on marriage, society, and women's health. This secular campaign does not use religion to condemn contraception, but uses the effects of contraception to condemn itself. The campaign's website can be found at: http://www.NoRoomforContraception.com .
It's time to get to the heart of the matter, and time for the media to stop smearing the effort by labeling it as a religious movement. Organic sex is here to stay, and more and more people from all walks of life are enjoying it.
I call contraception by its non-euphemistic origin: "contra-conception".
I think little about the issue, actually, but one should insist on accurate terms of language.
No problem with that. Folks don't need to conceive every time they boink.
By the way, welcome to FR, and the subject has already been done (so to speak). http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;s=Contra-Contraception%20
So, somehow it is the business of someone else if two consenting adults decide to use contraception? I don't think so.
"Organic" food is an emotional construct. It has nothing to do with nutrition or even science, it's just a fluffy belief that somehow, things were better when most humans share-cropped with the insects and died young, when 25 was elderly.
Why not give up modern medicine? Or electronics? Heck, why not give up every human development including domestication of animals and agriculture--how much more natural can you get?
Of course, only a few million of us could live this way, and those that could would be so busy surviving that they would not have any time to reflect upon the nobility of their existence.
It did involve lots of children, miscarriages and death during childbirth though. Whatever risks we might face to our health due to birth control pills or condoms, they are much less significant than the hazards involved with a pregnancy and delivery.
Visits to old family cemeteries are eye-opening views to past grief and tragedy--stone upon stone marking the graves of babies who did not live to be a year old, or the graves of wives, worn out in turn by the demands of hard work and childbearing.
Sometimes a dose of reality is called for when nostalgia for the past sets in.
Who needs this tripe?
Ohhhh Boy, contra contraception is here to stay...ooooooooooh! Why can't we just say conception is here to stay. We give birth to thoughts every second we are awake, using our bodies to create another idea in human form is just not such a big deal.
Those who would prevent us from such free conceptualization are the ones to watch.
Actually, this is a misuse of the word "natural". In reality, Hoover Dam is every bit as "natural" as a beaver dam -- the former was not created or maintained by mystical powers, and human rational thought is no less valid than beaver instincts.
"Natural" and "organic" are mystical concepts for the mystical.
I gave up trying to convince such people 35 years ago when one insisted that there just had to be a difference between identical molecules of an active form of vitamin, one synthesized, and the other from a "pure and natural organic source". These people think molecules have souls.
I agree.
Contraception has evolved into women thinking that they require pills that make their healthy (fertile) bodies infertile, or surgery (abortion) when those pills don't work. They're saying that there is something inherently wrong with the female body that it so needs to be changed.
I don't require pills or surgery to be equal, thank-you-very-much. I refuse to take a pill everyday to trick my healthy body into thinking it's pregnant so it won't get pregnant, when a majority of the month I am naturally infertile and during my fertile times I only have 25% chance of concieving.
Ridiculous and sad.
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