Many of them said, «I've never
thought about contraception in theological terms,» or, «I've tried to avoid thinking about the ethical implications of this topic.»
That sounds silly probably, but if
you think about it contraception is only wasting one more cell.
Not exact matches
Later, when interviewed in a 2006 article in the New York Times Sunday magazine
about current religious
thinking on artificial
contraception, Mohler elaborated: «I can not imagine any development in human history, after the Fall, that has had a greater impact on human beings than the Pill....
The ban on
contraception was put in by Paul VI in the 60s without real
thought about modern times.
«It's never too early to
think about euthanasia,» he explained, urging that the subject be taught, along with voting rights and
contraception, in high schools.
A recent study, «What Catholic Women
Think About Faith, Conscience, and
Contraception» (see whatcatholicwomenthink.com), has shown that 37 per cent of women aged 18 to 34 who attend Mass weekly and have been to confession within the past year completely accept the Church's teaching on family planning.
Again, marriage may be
thought the ideal but there will be a strong motivation to ensure that young people have all the necessary information
about contraception because they may end up, fairly naturally, doing the «loving» bit first before they are ready to have children.
One would never guess, furthermore, from Wolterstorff's presentation that contemporary advocates of marriage as irreducibly procreative have also
thought deeply
about the reality of marriage past childbearing age,
about infertility and
contraception, and offered sophisticated responses that make laugh lines like Wolterstorff's seem entirely facile.
I
think what you should be saying is that if we educated our children
about the use of
contraception instead of the «just don't do it» you would have people making more informed descisions and using the
contraception in a more educated manner.
Here I am not just
thinking of
contraception as a practice but as a mentality, a way of
thinking about sexuality which severs the affective from the procreational, and the physical from the spiritual.
With all the furor and dishonesty over the Supreme Court's decisions on
contraception and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, it's a good moment to
think about what kinds of structural weaknesses the center - right has in public debate and what can be done to address some of those weaknesses.
More than three quarters of women (77 %) aged 16 - 24 want a contraceptive method that they didn't have to
think about every day or plan for during sex, but just 1 % are aware of all four of the most reliable methods of
contraception (injection, IUD, IUS and implant) that once fitted, women don't need to worry
about for up to 10 years.
«High school students are very sexually active and getting pregnant so we don't have that luxury to
think that they are too young to be engaged in conversations
about contraception and sexual education,» Quinn told WCBS 880.
Even having emergency
contraception behind the counter or locked in a display case can cause some women to
think twice
about purchasing it.
We believe young people need to be encouraged to work out what they
think about issues to do with their own sexual health and wellbeing, especially when it comes to issues around abortion,
contraception, same - sex attraction, age for first time sex, and whether sexual activity is likely to be a part of one's life at all.
Amid the political wrangling
about government - mandated
contraception distribution, I had the
thought that some of the preliminary ideas
about regulating new education models are like birth control for innovation.
So if you use withdrawal for birth control,
think about keeping emergency
contraception (aka the morning - after pill) in your medicine cabinet, just in case ejaculate (cum) gets in or near your vagina.
So once you get an IUD, you won't have to
think about emergency
contraception again until you stop using the IUD.