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To: exDemMom; St_Thomas_Aquinas; Campion; Tax-chick
Stopping abortion is an excellent thing, but I think everyone would agree that some means of doing that would be objectionable.

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.

43 posted on 08/23/2015 5:36:18 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("He shall defend the needy, He shall save the children of the poor, and crush the oppressor.")
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Excellent post at #43. Reminds me a lot of Humanae Vitae. I wish more people would read it. It's an easy read, and STUNNINGLY prophetic.

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-)

45 posted on 08/23/2015 5:42:37 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

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?


47 posted on 08/23/2015 7:00:50 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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