Posted on 08/23/2015 2:55:48 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas
By 2018, it may be possible to purchase a contraceptive microchip that you implant under your skin that delivers birth control hormones automatically into your blood stream every day for as long as 16 years. That’s the vision of Microchips, a Massachusetts-based startup formed by MIT researchers who are developing a remote-controlled drug delivery microchip you would implant under your skin near your abdomen (or, if you prefer, your backside region). Without having to go back to a doctor, women would be able to switch birth control hormones on and off at the touch of a button.
That’s a big idea and it’s no wonder it’s attracted the attention of Bill Gates, who is backing the microchip contraceptive through the family planning unit of his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
read my mind... who knows the possibilities on literally being able to hack a person’s body chemistry
It sounds to me like this is basically a 16-year supply of "the pill" inserted into the woman's body, and then released in doses via wireless signal to an implanted microchip. I don't know how the chip would know where a woman would be in her cycle, but I'm sure the fine engineers at MIT do.
This could really escalate the population implosion, particularly in the West.
Just as a far-out "per absurdam" rhetorical example, cutting the sex organs out of all baby girls would work, but would be objectionable. Yes?
Keeping all girls under house arrest until marriage, and oh yeah, then under house arrest after marriage as well, would work, but would be objectionable. Yes?
Requiring all boys to provide sperm samples for cryostorage at puberty, and then neutering them all so they could not beget children except by artificial insemination, would work, but would be objectionable. Yes?
So the question is, is there some reason why being able turn women's fertility on and off by deranging their normal hormonal levels with a remote control toggle device, would be objectionable?
I think there is.
In the obvious, materialistic sense, it would lead to an epidemic of trivial sportf***ing, followed by, as the night the day, tsunamis of STD's --- which in fact every "advance" in contraceptive technology absolutely, reliably does. Helloo-o-o-o cephalosporin-resistant gonorrhea, hello middle-schoolers dying quickly and badly.
Second, it would completely deprive intercourse of the significance, the "weight," the "bonding energy" given to it by its procreative potential. This is so major it's the equivalent of, in physics, abolishing one of the fundamental forces, like gravity or magnetism. Everything in the Universe would fall apart. Its like taking all the mortar out of the brick walls that constitute the foundation of your house. The fundamental sexual forces that attract male and female, which inspire them to place their lives in each other's hands and "cling to each other, becoming one flesh" for a lifetime, would utterly evaporate.
You can see it happening now, can't you?
Sex, already deflated,diminished and almost undone as one of the awesome forces in the universe of human interaction, would shrivel the rest of the way down to being a meaningless sport, implying nothing in terms of sacredness and commitment, probably abolishing the whole notion of "relationship" along the way: not loving, not even user-friendly.
The real challenge is not just to stop abortion, which could be done by sabotaging the sexual physiology of women, or men, or both ---basically abolishing the difference between men and women, except for certain ornamental details.
The real challenge is to restore sexual wholeness.
Sexual physical, moral, spiritual wholeness.
That's the only way to make things right.
It's a big job, and a slow way.
But our choices are: the slow way, or no way.
It's counter-intuitive, but no, the abortion providers probably won't hate this, for two reasons.
Why do you suppose PP tries to drive sex ed into lower and lower grades? The reason is to generate an unnatural interest and curiosity about sex, to foster premarital sex at a young age when children fail to use sterilizers as prescribed, thus necessitating abortions.
The same principle applies with respect to contraception and adults.
The second reason is that PP is a eugenic movement in addition to an abortion movement. It has been since Margaret Sanger began the movement. 70% of PP abortuaries are located in black neighborhoods, and Bill Gates intends to begin this particular sterilization program in Africa.
Forget Nostradamus. Read what Paul VI wrote way back in 1968. What could a celibate old man know about contraception and its consequences? People would be surprised. 8-)
I believe the theory is that the woman herself would turn the contraceptive on and off, based on whether or not she wanted to have a child. However, it’s already been demonstrated that stopping a contraceptive - whether it’s pill, injection, or implant - doesn’t guarantee that the woman’s reproductive system will recover.
It always sounds much better when you say it.
If you had a 3-year-old refusing to use the toilet, would you be throwing out random fragments of a grand theory, or would you still have it all coherently together?
The current system and focus of birth control is not at all protective of fertility.
No, it’s not. Nothing other than chastity - the virtuous use of our sexual faculties according to our station in life - respects our created nature as male and female. Going around that always involves debasing or destroying someone’s bodily integrity.
——I believe the theory is that the woman herself would turn the contraceptive on and off, based on whether or not she wanted to have a child ——
That’s the ostensible purpose.
But Gates is a believer in a “sustainable population” and a depopulationist. And the likelihood of this device being abused by governments is enormous.
Langer tries to downplay the “remote control” feature saying that it has a very limited range. Bit that can be easily adjusted.
It’s telling that Gates wants to first introduce this into Africa —with encryption.
In other news, Jeff Zuckerburg is working on drones to provide universal wireless access to Africa. It may not be related to Gates’ venture, but I’m sure Gates is taking note.
I agree with you. The idea that it’s controlled by the user is just a smokescreen for control by the People Who Are Better Than Us.
One of things you find when you pay attention to population controllers is that, yes, they don’t want poor women in Africa to have children. They don’t want Mexicans to have children. But they also don’t want me to have children, even though, on paper as it were, my family checks off all the boxes of the “right people.”
They’re after sterile sex for its own sake. They’ve made that clear in the promotion of homosexuality, regardless of its extremely negative health consequences. It’s life they hate, that simple.
If I had a 3-year-ld refusing to use the toilet, I would be begging God to remedy my severe deficiencies of Prudence, Justice, Fortitude and Temperance.
Yup
See, you’re better than I am. I’m begging my husband to stop at the grocery store on the way home for large quantities of cheap pink wine.
I know you’ve been there, too. When you get them down to details, it’s not that they want you to abstain from sex ... they hate you if you do that. They demand that you have sex, but contracept or abort.
I know you know this one, but it seems appropriate
"See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and adversity; in that I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, that you may live and multiply, and that the LORD your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to possess it.…
Choose life, that you and your descendants may live ...
That’ll work.
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And Diet 7-up.
And prudence, fortitude, and all that would be nice, too ...
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