If someone asks me why contraception is wrong, here is what
I would say*.
1)
If you break the word down, it means
"against conception" (contra- ‘against’ + a shortened form of
conception.). So, the act is against
conception. Well, there is the first clue God would not approve of
it. It is against something He created, the act of
conception.
2)
How do human beings come into the
world? They do through conception. Therefore, conception is a
good thing because human beings come into the world through it.
Without conception, there is no birth, no baby, no beautiful child, and correspondingly,
no further children. Something that goes against all that cannot be a
good thing.
3)
We often hear the phrase "actions speak
louder than words". We speak more than with just words.
Saint John Paul II spoke of the "nuptial meaning of the
body". Through all the actions of our body, we speak
something. When we use contraception in the midst of the conjugal
act, what are we saying? We are saying we love the other person, but not
with our whole selves. Is this really the love we want to show the other
person, especially in such a deep and profoundly intimate moment? By
using contraception, we indeed make it look like we are giving our whole
selves to the other, but we really are not. Contraception makes us
liars. God, who is truth, does not lie, and we who are created in
his image, are made for truth, not for falsehood. Therefore, in addition
to going against the good, it goes against truth, and that is another reason
why God would not approve of contraception.
4)
Close to the beginning of the Bible, God says "Be
fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and subdue it." (Genesis
1:28). God wants to fill the earth with people made in his
image! Contraception specifically, and all forms of population
control in general, goes directly against this wish of God's. There
are serious affects when we lower birth rates which I discussed in detail in my
series entitled “Be Fruitful and Multiply”, specifically Part Three: http://jimscatholicblog.blogspot.com/2017/04/be-fruitful-and-multiply-part-three_2.html
5)
It is wrong because the supreme moral authority
in the world, the Catholic Church, says so.
Let us read the exact words of the Catechism on this matter, which
quotes Humane Vitae. "Every action which, whether in
anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the
development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a
means, to render procreation impossible" is intrinsically evil." (p.2370) When
we introduce something to thwart fecundity, into an act that is designed by God
to promote fecundity, we do wrong.
6)
Contraception leads to abortion. This will be the topic of the next post.
*much of this material comes from
a previous post on contraception I did in 2016:
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