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To: Desdemona; FormerLib
It's called the Billings Method and using it to avoid conception is sinful without GRAVE reasons - like another child would literally starve to death.

That's not true. The Magisterium speaks of "just" and "legitimate" reasons coming from "serious" (as opposed to "frivolous") motives. Also, there is no requirement even to reduce oneself to near penury by having children, or to have as many children as physically possible. The Magisterium speaks of the "praise" that is to be given to those who have many children, not the "requirement" of all or most to do so. The procreation of children is an issue of distributive social justice, not sexual morality - they are something owed by the married couple to society, so their number has a rational connection to the needs of society for children. So there is a greater obligation to have a larger number of children in a country like the US than there is in India or China.

77 posted on 11/01/2003 8:40:18 AM PST by Hermann the Cherusker
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To: Hermann the Cherusker
Maybe society owes to the Father of the Family votes equal to the number of his children while the single man gets one vote in elections. To me that could be Just and Fair.

Notice I didn't mention the man voting for his wife. Had I, me bride woulda brained me.

82 posted on 11/01/2003 9:20:31 AM PST by Catholicguy (MT1618 Church of Peter remains pure and spotless from all leading into error, or heretical fraud)
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