The Cost of Contraception: Women's Health - Response to CNN

LifeSiteNews.com ^ | June 10, 2010 | Jenn Giroux

[Grunthor]

Not all contraception is chemically based.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

You're right. But those that are not chemically based are notoriously ineffective. There is a better option for those who desire a Godly alternative.

[Grunthor]

I wonder is the condom is less effective.

[Angry_White_Man_Syndrome]

Not all contraception is chemically based. Correct, but any form of contraception devalues the human body mentally and physically.

[Grunthor]

“Correct, but any form of contraception devalues the human body mentally and physically.”

What does having more children than you can hope to support do to the human body?

[Antoninus]

Good article and 100% correct.

[Antoninus]

What does having more children than you can hope to support do to the human body?

Considering we live in the richest society in the history of the human race, this argument is patently absurd.

[Sergio]

Bookmark.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

Condoms have a 10 to 15% failure rate in preventing pregnancy in real world usage. (And if it fails 10% of the time in preventing pregnancy, and a woman can only get pregnant approx 7 days a month, but can get AIDS 31 days a month, the failure rate of condoms in preventing AIDS is that much higher, which is why it is malfeasance at best to recommend condoms to prevent AIDS.)

[Brian Kopp DPM]

Considering we live in the richest society in the history of the human race, this argument is patently absurd.

Amen.

All those >7000sq ft McMansions, with average US fertility of less than 1.5.

God is not amused.

[Spudx7]

Excellent point.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

From WikiPedia:

The typical use pregnancy rate among condom users varies depending on the population being studied, ranging from 10–18% per year.

So I was wrong. Failure rates average 10–18%, not 10-15%.

[Grunthor]

ok, good info, thank you.

[Grunthor]

“God is not amused”

I’m going out on a pretty thick limb when I express my doubt in your ability to know this.

[Grunthor]

You expressed in your earlier post a concern of women getting AIDs through condom use. I was stuck in a mentality of sex in marriage between two monogomous people.

AIDs would not be an issue, would it?

[Brian Kopp DPM]

It is a separate issue. I was making an aside. Many commentators condemn the Church for not recommending condom use to "prevent" AIDS.

But the Church is not in the business of promoting suicide. And recommending condoms to prevent a deadly disease is just that.

Sorry I did not make myself more clear.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

Spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for multi-room McMansions, for "families" with no kids or only 1.1 kids, would be amusing to God, in your opinion?

Especially when those very couples are engaging in behavior deemed by the entire witness of Christianity (until the 20th century) to be sinful (ie, contraception, abortion, & sterilization) in order to prevent the birth of the very children that should be filling those McMansions?

I don't think so.

God is not amused.

[Grunthor]

“Spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for multi-room McMansions, for “families” with no kids or only 1.1 kids, would be amusing to God, in your opinion?”

Oh, I am not so proud that I believe that I can know the mind of God.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

Its not a matter of pride. I know the mind of God on this quite well, because He shared it with me:

"God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

And He has not rescinded this, the first commandment of Scripture.