“I consider the term “baby-making machine” to be a personal insult,”
Take it however you choose to.
“as if I lacked the cognition to make decisions for myself about what I value.”
I am sure that you possess the cognition, I question wether or not under catholic law, you as a woman have the right.
The right to what?
The whole argument for contraception - like your original comment - is profoundly misogynistic, taking as its primary assumption that there is something *wrong* with the way women are. As the Wiley article referenced earlier said, it assumes that when God created human beings, He did it wrong. This is the Aristotelian view of humanity - that women are a failed attemped at a man - not the Biblical view.
Since the problem with women is that they're not enough like men, homosexuality is the obvious solution. Always ready for a quick sex act; no tiresome emotional entanglement or expectations that it "means something"; instantly ready to move on to the next partner; and of course, no terrifying infants.
What has a contraceptive society produced, if not women who seem to be fulfilling the dreams of homosexual men? The corruption is profound, and the self-contradictions apparently not even observed by those who celebrate contraception and IVF in the same sentence.
If one believes human beings are simply an evolutionary wrong turn from the more practically-effective gorilla, then none of this matters. What is confusing to me is how this could possibly be considered a part of Christianity.