Cherie Blair: Change Catholic Teaching on Contraception

Catholic World News ^ | 8/31/09

[marshmallow]

Addressing the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Cherie Blair has again called upon the Church to change her perennial teaching on contraception. “If you look at what progress women have made in the world, one of the reasons they have been able to make progress is because they have been able to control their fertility,” said the wife of the former British prime minister.

“I personally don't think there is anything wrong with that, and indeed without being able to control that I wouldn't have been able to achieve the things that I've been able to do. I think it's a really important issue and I would prefer it if the Catholic Church took a more positive attitude towards contraception because I think there's a lot of difference between preventing a life coming about and actually extinguishing a life when it has come about.”

A spokesman for the Church in Scotland defended Catholic teaching after hearing Mrs. Blair’s remarks. Referring to the abortifacient nature of some contraceptives, he said that extinguishing a life “is exactly what the morning-after pill does, while the conventional pill can potentially do the same.”

[marshmallow]

The Blairs are baaaaaack!!

Link to the original article in The Herald (UK) which we are not permitted to post for copyright reasons.

Among the gems in the article which we really didn't need to know ........"Mrs Blair has previously revealed that she uses contraception and that the couple's nine-year-old son Leo was conceived at Balmoral after she neglected to pack contraceptives for a stay with the Queen."

Thanks, Cherie......we're all deeply enriched.

[Petrosius]

So God should change his decision to make man male and female to please the will of some women who wish to shed their feminine nature and become like men? Perhaps we should also change the Lord’s Pray to read “my will be done.”

[livius]

I bet her son likes knowing that, too. Such fun to be known publicly as an accident that your mother would have avoided if she could have.

[marshmallow]

My thoughts, also. He’s probably still a little young to grasp it all but when he’s older it’ll be nice to know that his mother was taking measures to avoid the likes of him coming along.

[FES0844]

make progress is because they have been able to control their fertility...

Only God is in control!

[HighlyOpinionated]

Unformed Consciemce, Mrs Blair? Guess you proved it.

Also that you talk too much about personal things which do not need to be front page nor back page “news.”

The Queen may be amused, but I’m sure God is not. (Based on Scripture, Early Church writings including the Didache, Tradition and the Magisterium.)

[Nosterrex]

From what Cherie Blair has written about her life, she is no Virgin Mary. The birth control pill has become the suicide pill for much of the Western industrialized world. Look at the demographics with the negative birth rates of white Europeans in comparison with Muslims.

[tioga]

isn’t she best known for being a wife?

[2harddrive]

Control of SEX is not enough? They must control fertility too? LOL.

[bboop]

Yeh, we’re enriched and I bet your son feels SO wanted after learning he was an accident in your planning.

[Kakaze]

Apparently, the teaching of the church made no imprint on her actions.........so why does she care?

[marshmallow]

Bingo.

[A.A. Cunningham]

CINOs

[tiki]

“I personally don’t think there is anything wrong with that
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I personally don’t think she’s God.

[Natural Law]

The unwavering principle of the left is for life without consequence. They believe that governments are instituted among men (and women) to ensure that no willful or unwillful act causes them any inconvenience. The consequences of sex, whether unwanted pregnancies, STD, AIDS, or failed families, must be born collectively by society. The same goes for drugs, lack of education, crime, and health.

[Salvation]

More from the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

                From the Catechism of the Catholic Church (click on the book for the link.)    

2399 The regulation of births represents one of the aspects of responsible fatherhood and motherhood. Legitimate intentions on the part of the spouses do not justify recourse to morally unacceptable means (for example, direct sterilization or contraception).

2370 Periodic continence, that is, the methods of birth regulation based on self-observation and the use of infertile periods, is in conformity with the objective criteria of morality. These methods respect the bodies of the spouses, encourage tenderness between them, and favor the education of an authentic freedom. In contrast, "every action which, whether in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible" is intrinsically evil:

Thus the innate language that expresses the total reciprocal self-giving of husband and wife is overlaid, through contraception, by an objectively contradictory language, namely, that of not giving oneself totally to the other. This leads not only to a positive refusal to be open to life but also to a falsification of the inner truth of conjugal love, which is called upon to give itself in personal totality. . . . The difference, both anthropological and moral, between contraception and recourse to the rhythm of the cycle . . . involves in the final analysis two irreconcilable concepts of the human person and of human sexuality.

[Salvation]

The Catholic Church is not going to change!

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[LadyDoc]

I know of several kids similarly conceived...but you know, their moms ended up happy about the “accident”...

They probably wanted a kid, but society was telling them to be “successful” and “careful” and not have all those kids, but their hearts said differently, so they “Forgot” to pack the pill, or “forgot” to take it, or “didn’t bother” to use the condom/diaphragm...

In other words: “The heart has it’s reasons that reason does not understand”