Posted on 09/22/2019 12:04:03 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
The unintended consequence of widespread birth control — on individuals, families and society — cannot be denied.
Loneliness has become an “epidemic” in the world today, says scholar Mary Eberstadt, author of the 2013 book “Adam and Eve After the Pill."
“Fifty years after the embrace of the pill — undeniably, because of the embrace of the pill — loneliness is spreading across the materially better-off countries of the planet."
She expands on the themes of her new article, describing the “prophetic power” of “Humanae Vitae” (“On Human Life”), Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical letter on birth control and married love...Paul VI’s encyclical foresaw what almost no one back then would have predicted: that the world after the sexual revolution would be rife with unprecedented problems, among them a general coarsening of standards, a coercive use of reproductive technologies by governments and a marked lowering of respect for women.
Eberstadt: Fifty years ago, there was a lot of understandable confusion about what the revolution would bring. The difference between 1968 and today is that we can no longer pretend the pro-revolution optimists were right. There are too many data points demonstrating otherwise.
Unprecedented rates of divorce, single parenthood and semi-orphaned children during the past half-century torpedo any case that the Pill helped marriage.
Lopez: How did the sexual revolution license predation and democratize sexual harassment?
Eberstadt: There have always been predatory men. But the Pill has acted as a game changer on their reach, expanding it exponentially. Both the scandals of recent months and the “#Me Too” movement itself are consequences of the revolution itself...
(Excerpt) Read more at angelusnews.com ...
what libtard crapola.
On the contrary, this is a sober look into what happens when we take basic matters of life into our own hands.
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The pill is responsible for more cases of breast cancer than anything else. When will that truth become common knowledge?!? The pill is literally death and it cannot be undone for those who find out too late.
what libtard crapola.
Not really, read it and see. The author makes some pretty good points.
I think it’s pretty hard to deny that the birth control pill has brought about sex without commitment and destabilized marriages. Whether you attribute that to bad behavior by men, by women, or by both, I think it’s pretty undeniable that it’s made promiscuity mainstream and that has led to a “coarseness” in society as the author puts it.
“Unprecedented rates of divorce, single parenthood and semi-orphaned children during the past half-century torpedo any case that the Pill helped marriage. “
ROTFLMAO!
A democrat wet dream is to have this issue back... it’s as dead as a doornail...
Shall we debate having runners on cars? You don’t know what that is? They stopped putting them on cars around the same time the birth control pill issue was debated.
Give it up... the world has moved on. Even most Catholics support the pill today.
If the birth control pill did so much, there wouldn’t be so many abortions.
Deny love and you deny life. Deny life and you deny love. Lust replaced love. My generation championed the Pill. And now a good majority of the female members of my generation are the lonely this article speaks of. The Pill is what did that.
Most definitely. It's not 'the pill' that has led to a self-absorbed, lonely, and unhappy society. One factor that seldom if ever gets talked about is the that well-meaning, but off-base, 'greatest generation' and baby boomer parents pushed the concept of delayed gratification to their kids. 'Don't get married too early, don't have kids too soon. Enjoy your lives, and work hard now to enjoy future success and a better life'.
The problem with that is that too many people forget to have a life, and get too wrapped up in their 'personal' success and careers, etc., such that they put off forging close loving relationships and friendships, and having children. I strongly believe in working hard, taking personal responsibility, and avoiding the need for instant gratification. However, carried to an extreme this will just leave you empty later in life.
Can’t put the KY jelly back in the tube!
Sexual freedom comes at a great price.
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