Contraception leads to
abortion.
Let’s expand on that a little tonight.*
Let’s expand on that a little tonight.*
When one contracepts, one wishes to enjoy the sexual act
without all the responsibility that comes with it. If the contraception
fails, then the child is not seen as a gift from God, but rather as an
inconvenience, or even a “failure”. If the contraception fails, which it
often does, what is the only way to ensure its failure is not final? The answer is abortion, the ultimate
form of birth control.
A misguided notion today is that using contraception should
lead to fewer abortions. The more
contraception is used, however, the more sexually active people are, and
therefore, the more contraceptive failures there will be, and so, therefore,
there will be more “need” of abortion as a backup plan.
Some forms of contraception are actually what are called
abortifacients. Abortifacients do the same thing as medically induced
abortions do; they end the life of a fully realized human person. Some,
like IUD, prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus. (When
an egg is fertilized, that is conception and this when human life begins.)
Some, like RU 486, actually abort an intact fetus inside the
woman’s body. So, really, if we wish to speak about abortion, we
have to talk about all forms, including ones fostered by various forms
of contraceptives.
The sexual revolution, which was in full force when Humanae
Vitae was published, was about having sex more openly and freely and frequently,
and the effects remain today. It was about the pleasures of sex, not about its
meaning and purpose. Because it was about pleasure, it was definitely not about
babies. To have sex openly, freely, and
frequently, and exclude babies, contraception was deemed necessary. If there were no contraceptives, there
would have been no sexual revolution.
And of course, as we stated, when the contraceptives failed, abortion
had to become the fall back option, and therefore, it had to be made accessible
to all.
This revolution taught that we, not God, were the masters of
sex. The sexual revolution stated we could have sex whenever we
wanted. It was disassociated with love and responsibility. It
became “casual” or “recreational”. The deep meaning of sex,
ingrained by the Creator, was lost. No longer was sex a result, or a
deepening, of true love, but rather, sex was used to try to create love, or
maybe not even love, but maybe some kind of high feeling, like a drug.
That is not what sex was designed for.
Sex, untethered to morality, leads to consequences, which
the Holy Father predicted in Humane Vitae, and which I listed briefly in the
first post in this series. I will
discuss them in a little more detail in the next post.
*This material is drawn mostly from my post on this
connection between abortion and contraception in October of 2016.
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