In a way you are making my point,and that is sort of what the RCC seemed to over look, such is the case with many places and people that they teach that Birth Control is a sin. Not taking into consideration the results of their teachings, and I use Haiti as an example because of those poor people who die trying to get to the USA by boat and many do die. I just don’t see how that is being pro-life. To me being pro-life means helping the already born to a better life, and only having children you can care for, I realize there are exceptions to every rule. unseen circumstances do come up in a famlies life and if it happens after the children are born they should deserve help, But a responsible person will not bring a child into the world when they are already in dire circumstances.
Thing is, birth control does not lengthen the amount of time you can’t get pregnant. The entire reason why you have on days and off days is not because it is medically necessary, but in order to try and appeal to Catholics. The idea being that, if you are still fertile the same amount of time during the month (that one week period), then they couldn’t object.
What it honestly seems they rejected was reducing how fertile you were even in those three weeks that you take the pill. The rhythm method is only allowed because it has X% chance of failure, and anything that reduces below that is wrong. And what’s the point of birth control that makes you just as likely to get pregnant?
The thing that is considered unnatural is reducing the chances you will get pregnant beyond what happens without any aid. In other words, the entire concept of birth control itself.
No, that’s not correct. For one thing, you’re not fertile during the placebo week on the Pill. That would pretty much defeat the entire purpose of taking the Pill. You get your PERIOD that week, which you won’t if you skip the week of placebo pills. That wasn’t to appeal to Catholics, but to doctors, who were terrified of the idea of women never getting their periods. Such a thing was obviously unnatural and dangerous, and could not be allowed to happen, so the week of sugar pills allows for something that looks very much like menses (but technically isn’t, hormonally speaking.) We know now, of course, that there are no ill effects to not getting a monthly bleed, and in fact not menstruating all the time may be the more “natural” rhythm of women’s bodies, anyhow.
The “natural” appeal to the Catholics was that women are normally infertile 25 days in each 28 day cycle. The pill makes you infertile for 28 days in the 28 day cycle. It’s taking the natural infertility of women and extending it to include the whole month.
I have a relative who is a RC priest, and he told me that because it wasn’t natural,and the couple was supposed to be open to any child God sent them;they were holding back the will of God!
Now having sex doesn’t mean (in my opinion) that a good loving God would want a couple to have children they don’t want, or can’t care for. Idon’t believe that God want’s the people of Haiti to live in such poverty, I don’t see anything that proves what God wants, just what the RCC wants.
Exactly. Because 90 microns of latex is stronger than their omnipotent God, and birth control never fails. :rolleyes: <----rolleyes at people who think birth control thwarts the will of God, not at you, monavis.