Birth Control Made Easy…
I drive by a billboard a few miles from home occasionally with a smiling woman on it. The tagline is, "birth control made easy". The sponsor is peddling birth control pills, of course. I have a different view of the tagline.
Do you think you were created by the coincidental melding of reproductive ingredients? If you do, then it makes good sense to make birth control easy. You want to be in control as much as you can...to make... or not to make a baby with your mate.
Alternatively, do you think you were created by God through your parents? If that is your position, do you think birth control should be made easy? If you believe God's not dead and He's looking out for your best interests all the time and in every detail, then birth control can be made easy without dangerous pills or synthetic barriers. You can ask God to make birth easy by controlling the event in His time...by trusting that He will be with you every moment of the process...from conception...through fetal development...then birth.
He is with you through it all even if you aren't married...aren't financially stable...are contemplating abortion...are a victim of rape or incest. These difficult consequences surrounding the existence of a developing child in the womb aren't easy. But they are secondary to the existence of a child of God who deserves a chance to LIVE a good life...or a bad one, regardless of the circumstances surrounding conception.
In this election year, I have been astonished at the number of people who assert the ridiculous and unwarranted accusation that women's health and wellness don't matter enough to pro-lifers...that we are potentially complicit in denying a woman the right to life saving health care. The elephant in the room is the unborn baby who will die from the abortion.
I will risk the ire of some by positing an objective truth or two. Men and women are biologically different. Women carry babies inside their bodies if impregnated by men. So if you want birth control to be easy...trust God for His timing for marriage and then after that, for making babies. Men, don't pressure her for sex. Women, don't give in. Know God loves you if you ignore this advice, AND He loves the unborn child just as much.
Another way to make birth control easy is to learn about the female reproductive cycle. If you need to avoid pregnancy for whatever reason, there are methods you can follow that don't include complicated drug therapy like birth control pills or inserting foreign bodies into your body or under the skin.
It was God's idea to create men and women with generative reproductive organs that give us pleasure. It was His idea to create marriage as the means by which we would procreate and thereby sustain humanity...His creative jewels. When we erase or ignore the procreative aspect from the sexual act, we must follow the logic...if sexual activity is ok without an openness to life, then anything goes.
I have included a podcast link to a detailed explanation about contraception and chastity here from a published text by Elizabeth Anscombe "who was a prominent 20th-century British philosopher, known for her influential work in ethics and her deep commitment to Catholic doctrine. In her essay ‘Contraception and Chastity’—one of the earliest defenses of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical, Humanae Vitae—Anscombe expertly explains the evil of contraception and contrasts its use with that of methods of natural family planning." - James T. Majewski
If you prefer to read the text, click here.
