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My vasectomy is genocide. It hurt, but I don’t think it was a crime against humanity.
Creating? Who do the pop-controllers think they are, gods??
Everybody in this article sounds rather goofy.
“a global conspiracy to exterminate humanity”
Perhaps the stupidest thing said anywhere this week...
Might be some who would favor that. Such don't get into positions of power often or stay long. Might be global, but not many participants. Eugenics has a different goal.
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I have done my part. I am reminded of the communists. They would give special awards to mothers had large families. :-)
Consider the medium and the source.
It is a TV program and the author gets to pick which statements from the presenter to highlight. The result is, predictably for the mainstream media everywhere, a bit comical, and we see some Freepers joined in on the fun.
Naturally no one thinks that use of contraception is exactly the same as spaying and neutering the entire population of the Philippines. It is an exaggeration, that the presenter made in a media environment that only listens to soundbites.
Quite possibly, she elaborated on the show and the elaboration did not enter into the article because the author does not agree with the prolife philosophy. Or, the presentation was deliberately made in simple stark terms, rather than in highbrow sociometric terms.
I have to admit, for all my railing against certain unbiblical beliefs and practices of the Church of Rome, their understanding of reproduction “modern family planning” is not one of them.
Ms. Valenzona and the Roman Catholic position on this is absolutely correct—and in accord with God’s holy Word.
Hyperbole does not a logical argument make.
13. Men rightly observe that a conjugal act imposed on one's partner without regard to his or her condition or personal and reasonable wishes in the matter, is no true act of love, and therefore offends the moral order in its particular application to the intimate relationship of husband and wife. If they further reflect, they must also recognize that an act of mutual love which impairs the capacity to transmit life which God the Creator, through specific laws, has built into it, frustrates His design which constitutes the norm of marriage, and contradicts the will of the Author of life. Hence to use this divine gift while depriving it, even if only partially, of its meaning and purpose, is equally repugnant to the nature of man and of woman, and is consequently in opposition to the plan of God and His holy will...Maybe the pope actually knew something, way back in 1968.Consequences of Artificial Methods
17. Responsible men can become more deeply convinced of the truth of the doctrine laid down by the Church on this issue if they reflect on the consequences of methods and plans for artificial birth control. Let them first consider how easily this course of action could open wide the way for marital infidelity and a general lowering of moral standards. Not much experience is needed to be fully aware of human weakness and to understand that human beings—and especially the young, who are so exposed to temptation—need incentives to keep the moral law, and it is an evil thing to make it easy for them to break that law. Another effect that gives cause for alarm is that a man who grows accustomed to the use of contraceptive methods may forget the reverence due to a woman, and, disregarding her physical and emotional equilibrium, reduce her to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desires, no longer considering her as his partner whom he should surround with care and affection.
Finally, careful consideration should be given to the danger of this power passing into the hands of those public authorities who care little for the precepts of the moral law. Who will blame a government which in its attempt to resolve the problems affecting an entire country resorts to the same measures as are regarded as lawful by married people in the solution of a particular family difficulty? Who will prevent public authorities from favoring those contraceptive methods which they consider more effective? Should they regard this as necessary, they may even impose their use on everyone.
Then why does the Catholic Church use natural methods to control birth control?