###"If a woman is in an unsafe environment and makes a choice to not bring a child into the world through contraceptive means, that is HER choice and it may be a humane one."###
The real problem with contraception is that it takes away all responsibility of the person. Following is a newspaper article I wrote for our local paper. It presents the short comings and poses questions on the use of contraceptives:
"While Family Planning Plus made an effort to promulgate contraception as a cure all for the moral ineptitude in the world that causes unwanted pregnancies and sexual transmitted disease, statistics from the American Pregnancy Association, Irving TX shows that 68,000,000 American individuals have Sexual Transmitted Disease, with 15,300,000 new cases reported each year and 3,000,000 teenagers acquiring and STD each year.
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http://www.americanpregnancy.org/main/statistics.html)
Those very numbers indicate the failure of the contraceptive mentality that family planners promote.
The writer’s claim that the “Griswold v. Baird decision made contraception legal 40 years ago”, is misleading as the real law loosening contraception on the United States was the Comstock Law which prohibited birth control and was overturned by the U.S. v. One Package of Japanese Pessaries case in 1936. There is a definite significance between the time periods of the two laws. Except for a few people such as Margaret Sanger, “family planning” groups did not exist in the 1930s. It was not until the mid 1960s and 1970s that these groups started to manifest themselves. What is coincidental and significant is that during that time moral degeneration, led by such happenings as Woodstock and Timothy Leary’s free drugs and many other things, the United States’ social mores started to decline to what we have today.
A question rises: Did this same family planning and contraceptive society thinking cause the United States’ social mores to decline to today’s lows or is it all just coincidence ? If it is coincidence then the following must be coincidental:
-As divorce is above 50% of all marriages, it was reported by Creighton University’s Center for Marriage and Family, “That the main causes for divorce are infidelity, and frequency of sexual relations were of greatest concern to those ages 29 and under.”
-Other startling statistics show children of divorce are twice as likely to drop out of school as those from intact homes.
-Children of divorce (whose parents divorced while they were children) are 62% more likely than children of non-divorced parents to no longer identify with the faith of their parents when they grow up. Divorced adults quadrupled from 4.3 million in 1970 to 17.4 million in 1994."
I don't think that the 15 million plus woman in the world were all in unsafe environments