Why, you ask? Well let me, in my infinite teenage wisdom, tell you. Because the child of an\u00a0artificially\u00a0contracepting couple is a failure. The child is the accident. The child is not the result of entirely self-giving love, he is the result of a mistake in the use of contraception.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not to say he remains<\/em> that way in the eyes of his parents, but it is to say that he is greeted with animosity from the get-go. There is immediate temptation towards abortion. And as we know, wherever there is temptation, there is sin. Where there is contraception there is failed contraception, and where there is failed contraception, there is abortion. We know, without a shadow of doubt, that increased use of contraception in society leads to an increased abortion rate. The data is in. Abortion is rooted in contraception, and the weed won\u2019t die unless pulled from the root.<\/p>\n So we \u2013 as Catholics \u2013 cannot expect to win the fight we are so proud of fighting \u2013 an end to the violent injustice of abortion \u2013 without fighting the fight we are\u00a0embarrassed\u00a0of. It\u2019s easy enough to tell people that we are against the murder of innocents; it gets tough when we tell people not to ruin their marriages with pills and rubber. But we never were called to float along the world\u2019s currents, so please, if you want an end to abortion, oppose the use of artificial contraception.<\/p>\n \u2026unless artificial contraception dies with it. (As you may know, I\u2019m being convicted of this fact as I run around with my camera, filming a people whose goal it is to rid the world of the various nuisances that get between husbands and wives in their attempts to make love. This includes condoms, chemicals, cement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-destupidification","tag-pro-life"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3060433030054060305-6683775669841217300?l=badcatholicblog.blogspot.com\")