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	Birth control - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Contraception differs from abortion in that the former prevents fertilization, while the latter terminates an already established pregnancy.
		Contraception was disallowed by all Christian faiths until the 1930s when the Anglican Communion changed its policy.
		The Roman Catholic Church remains morally opposed to contraception and orgasmic acts outside of the context of marital intercourse, believing that all sexual acts must be open to the transmission of life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Birth_control (3453 words)

	Christian views on contraception - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prior to the 20th century, contraception was generally condemned by all the major branches of Christianity, including by major reformers like Luther and Calvin.
		Pope John Paul II argued that contraception is contrary to the interpersonal union that sexual intercourse should cement.
		The condemnation of contraception was first relaxed by the Anglican Communion at the 1930 Lambeth Conference, and most Protestant groups followed suit over the course of the 20th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christian_views_on_contraception (1074 words)

	Crusader 44 Page 31
		The Catholic Church clearly teaches that the use of artificial contraception in all its forms, including direct sterilization, is gravely immoral, is intrinsically evil, is contrary to the law of nature and nature's God.
		Artificial contraception is wrong, not because the Church says it is wrong (it was wrong before Christ established the Church); it is wrong because God Himself, through the revelation of His Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, has declared it to be wrong.
		While artificial contraception is always immoral, there is a morally acceptable way by which married couples may space the births of their children.
	www.fatima.org /crusader/cr44/cr44pg31.asp (1199 words)

	Contraception: A Symposium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		To the extent that contraception was regar ded as a Catholic preoccupation Protestants tended to be tolerant of it.
		Likewise, contraceptive intercourse may sometimes be a fitting means by which husband and wife aim to nourish simultaneously the procreative and unitive purposes of their marriage.
		Contraception treats the procreative meaning of the sexual act as though it were an impediment to spousal union.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9812/articles/contraception.html (9287 words)

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		Basically Porter argues that it is wrong to use "artificial" contraceptives because they have a tendency to destroy sexual intimacy, whereas "natural contraception" is morally permissible because it does not have a tendency to cause this (presumably, "natural" contraception would be immoral were its use to result in the destruction of sexual intimacy).
		The contraceptive act is not simply nonprocreative (i.e., one that does not in fact result in pregnancy) but antiprocreative, i.e., an attack on the goodness of the procreativity of marriage and of human sexuality.
		In contraceptive intercourse, as we have seen, the explicit choice is to destroy the procreative potential of the genital embrace that is also freely chosen; it is this choice that makes the act contra-ceptive, anti- procreative.
	www.ewtn.com /library/MARRIAGE/SEXSAN.TXT (3587 words)

	Why Not Contraception
		Artificial contraception is wrong because it violates the "gift of self" which ought to be at the center of every act of physical love.
		But NFP and artificial contraception do not, strictly speaking, have the same goal, since NFP is used by couples to help conceive, as well as to space children, while artificial contraception is used only to block conception.
		But a couple on artificial birth control is treating the wife’s fertility as though there were something wrong with it, something that has to be gotten rid of by medication or barrier method.
	www.catholic.net /RCC/Issues/Contraception/contraception.html (3032 words)

	Birth Control and the Catholic Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This web page examines the supposed differences between NFP and artificial contraception, especially in the light of the Church's teaching that every sexual act ought to be open to the possibility of life.
		To go against the natural law by using artificial contraception during the fertile period would be a violation of the natural law, and, hence, an objectively evil act.
		In the latter (artificial contraception) they obstruct a the natural development of the generative process." According to the Magisterium, the difference is one of willful intent and deliberate obstruction.
	members.aol.com /revising/nfp.html (2384 words)

	In the Agora: Life, Love, Privacy, and God
		While Paul did agree with the finding that oral contraception is morally indistinguishable from older forms of artificial contraception, he announced, after four months of inquiry, that he could not agree with the possibility that contraception is morally acceptable in the conjugal bedroom.
		And this is not inconsistent with a prohibition on artificial contraception.
		If artificial contraception were an automatic barrier between a couple and God, then it should follow necessarily that on the whole families that avoid artificial birth control would be more loving (in an agape sense) and in community with God and each other than those faithful who practice it.
	www.intheagora.com /archives/2006/07/today_marks_the.html (7845 words)

	Contraception and religion, a short history, by Kathleen O'Grady, at the Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health
		Jewish Talmudic literature builds on this passage and prohibits the use of any contraceptive device for use by men which would waste the "male seed"; female contraceptives may be permitted for health reasons (danger to the mother or to the potential child).
		The total prohibition of artificial birth control methods by the Roman Catholic church, declared by Pope Pius XI in his 1930 encyclical, Casi Connubii, was maintained by the 1968 Humanae vitae (the encyclical of Pope Paul VI), and constitutes the present day policy of the church.
		Feminist analysis of contraception in the Islamic tradition include Islam, Gender and Social Change edited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and John L. Esposito (1998) and Theodora Foster Carroll's "Islam and Population" in her Women, Religion, and Development in the Third World (1983).
	www.mum.org /contrace.htm (1716 words)

	Birth Control
		Contraception is "any action which, either in anticipation of the conjugal act [sexual intercourse], 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" (Humanae Vitae 14).
		Contraception is wrong because it’s a deliberate violation of the design God built into the human race, often referred to as "natural law." The natural law purpose of sex is procreation.
		Contraception was so far outside the biblical mindset and so obviously wrong that it did not need the frequent condemnations other sins did.
	www.catholic.com /library/Birth_Control.asp (1862 words)

	Free-ResearchPapers.com - Catholic Church's View On Contraception
		The decision reached was that the previous teachings of the church were not infallible, that artificial contraception was not evil, and that Catholic families should have freedom to decide their method of family planning.
		Artificial contraception and Natural Family Planning are both forms of contraception, and even though the Church considers one acceptable and the other as extreme as a mortal sin, they share many similarities in essence.
		Contraception, whether artificial or natural, is obviously not favored by the Church, but the latter is allowed as a compromise it sometimes seems.
	www.free-researchpapers.com /dbs/b7/rfh86.shtml (2880 words)

	The Pill Approved
		She gave him $150,000 and tasked him to research and develop an oral contraceptive for women that was safe and effective.
		Proclaiming that artificial birth control is "any action which, either in anticipation of the conjugal act" — known to us as sex —; "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 illicit (Humanae Vitae, 14).
		The contraceptive pill that was approved for women on this day in 1960, and that other "artificial" stuff humans created, are all that stand between a humane habitation of planet Earth — and devastation by overpopulation.
	www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/0509almanac.htm (515 words)

	Abortion or Contraception, Which Do We Fight ? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Artificial contraception is dangerous, not just because it is always evil, but also because it seduces a person into a dangerous way of thinking.
		Most people using artificial contraception are not seriously considering, planning ahead and preparing to accept the serious life changing results that would come with the birth of a new child.
		Contraceptives do fail even when used “correctly.” When people establish and accept unchaste relationships with the idea that pregnancy can be avoided by the use of contraceptives they will have established a pattern of giving into their passions instead of controlling them.
	members.aol.com /johnprh/contraception.html (2910 words)

	Memo to Cardinal Cushing on Contraception Legislation (1965) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		It may be argued that contraception raises an issue of public morality because it has public consequences—an effect on the birth rate, on family morality, on the rise of hedonism, etc. On the other hand, it does not seem that these public consequences can be controlled by law.
		Third, Catholics themselves must be made to understand that, although contraception is not an issue of public morality to be dealt with by civil law, it remains for them a moral issue in their family lives, to be decided according to the teaching of the Church.
		The authority of the Church declares the moral law—that contraception is contrary to the moral law.
	www.georgetown.edu /users/jlh3/Murray/1965F.htm (1759 words)

	Birth Control and Natural Family Planning
		Once the contraception mentality descends on a society, it is impossible to change it with government programs.
		Contraception has not had the same success in ending unwanted pregnancies and the resulting abortions.
		Artificial birth control as a major root cause of poverty: Keynote Address to St. Vincent de Paul Regional Gathering, May 16, 1997.
	sycophants.info /birthcontrol.html (3282 words)

	Contra-contraception -- organic sex, natural family planning, contraception, emergency contraception, women's health (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		To the contrary, contraception and its anti-child mentality is at the root of the entire abortion culture.
		Her work in the arena of abstinence has convinced her that contraception is at the heart of the abortion struggle.
		They believe that thee negative effects of artificial contraceptives should not be minimized for sake of convenience, and the truth should not be distorted for the sake of political ideology.
	www.contra-contraception.com (1181 words)

	Birth Control
		Even within marriage, artificial contraception can easily be used for the narcissistic goal of seeking sexual pleasure as an end in itself.
		The use of artificial contraception is certainly within the bounds of Christian liberty.
		Artificial contraception relies upon medication, a device, or surgery to reduce or eliminate the possibility of conception.
	www.inplainsite.org /html/birth_control.html (1272 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Humanae Vitae Today
		Contraception, or "birth control" as it has been often called, apparently seeking to connote "responsibility," reaches back in human history to ancient times.
		The commission had essentially determined that the previous teaching forbidding contraception had not been infallible and that contraception was not intrinsically evil, paving the way for married couples to determine for themselves whether to use contraception.
		His admonishment to be concerned about the use of contraception by public authorities, imposing it on their populations, has been evidenced in many developing nations, and most notably in China.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=6796 (2573 words)

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		First, the terms NFP and artificial contraception by their very nature lead to some of the confusion in the minds of the faithful.
		Opponents of the Church's teaching on contraception frequently cite this "physicalism" as the reason for their dissent.4 If this were the justification of the Church's teaching, such a critique would have merit.
		The Church understands that contraception acts against the good of procreativity and deliberately separates the unitive and procreative meanings of marriage.5 Therefore, in explicating Church teaching, one must be careful to indicate not only what the Church teaches, but what the Church does not teach.
	www.catholic.net /rcc/Periodicals/Homiletic/12-96/8/8.html (3074 words)

	Contraception: Early Church Teaching (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In fact, sterilization is the most popular form of contraception in the world (according to the UN Population Division): 30% of contraceptors rely on female sterilization and 8% rely on male sterlization.
		The practice of contraception was usually limited to prostitutes and to women tempted to break their vows of chastity or of marital fidelity.
		The reason that abstinence, whether temporary or perpetual, is not in itself sinful, while being contraceptive, is that nothing is interposed between the couple--they remain open to conception, while recognizing their freedom not to have intercourse (by mutual agreement).
	ic.net /~erasmus/RAZ274.HTM (2877 words)

	Should the Catholic Church Reexamine Its Contraceptive Policies?
		According to the Catholic Church, sex outside marriage is a sin and using contraception is merely a method of skirting the issue.
		Artificial birth control assumes that children are an unwanted result of sexual union and something to be avoided.
		It has been estimated that expanding contraceptive services to meet the needs of couples who wish to avoid pregnancy but currently are not using contraception could prevent as many as 850,000 deaths per year among children under age five.
	speakout.com /activism/issue_briefs/1242b-1.html (791 words)

	CHAPTER 97
		Contraception means the prevention of the union of the sperm and egg, or the prevention of ovulation.
		Many pro-life activists will certainly be offended by the classification of artificial contraception as "anti-life," because these people have completely separated contraception from abortion in their minds.
		It would seem to be counterintuitive that a wider use of artificial contraception would lead to a great increase in the number of abortions, since the stated purpose of contraception is to prevent 'unwanted' conceptions that lead to abortion.
	www.ewtn.com /library/PROLENC/ENCYC097.HTM (3543 words)

	On Artificial Birth Control
		By the 1958 Lambeth Conference, contraception was an accepted part of life among most Anglicans, and a resolution was passed to the effect that the responsibility for deciding upon the number and frequency of children was laid by God upon the consciences of parents "in such ways as are acceptable to husband and wife."
		Harakas [actually in the Byzantine Rite that should be Fr Stanley] describes the sacramental view, in its affirmative response to contraception under the appropriate circumstances, as emphasizing the close relationship of body and soul, and places the contraceptive issue in the total context of marriage and family.
		Some contraceptives have an abortive effect, interrupting artificially the life of the embryo on the very first stages of his life.
	www.angelfire.com /pa3/OldWorldBasic/NoContraception.html (1457 words)

	Artificial Contraception and the Eucharist
		--So for a sin to be mortal, the sin must (1) be grave (as artificial contraception is defined), it must be (2) committed with the knowledge that it is a sin, and it must be (3) committed with full consent.
		Therefore, since artificial contraception is a grave sin, then as long as a Catholic knows that his/her Church speaks infallibly for Christ, and he/she knows that the Church condemns contraception as evil, then he/she is committing mortal sin if he/she uses artificial contraception with full consent.
		So, if a Catholic does not know that artificial contraception is a sin, then they are committing a dangerous sin by not learning the faith.
	www.catholicqanda.com /Contra.html (635 words)

	No Room for Contraception -- frequently asked questions, faq, contraception, birth control
		Emergency contraception (also known as Plan B or the morning-after pill) is a type of chemical contraception.
		The purpose and goal of No Room for Contraception is to expose the harms that artificial contraception brings to marriage and society, and this goal does not require belief in any religious tradition.
		It is time for women to really see what the dangers of contraception are on her health and marriage, and how contraception has lead to the problems of divorce, sexual abuse, disease, cancer and more.
	www.noroomforcontraception.com /Resources/Birth-Control-FAQ.htm (1060 words)

	Catechism of the Catholic Church - PART 3 SECTION 2 CHAPTER 2 ARTICLE 6
		Thus the innate language that expresses the total reciprocal self-giving of husband and wife is overlaid, through contraception, by an objectively contradictory language, namely, that of not giving oneself totally to the other.
		The difference, both anthropological and moral, between contraception and recourse to the rhythm of the cycle.
		These techniques (heterologous artificial insemination and fertilization) infringe the child's right to be born of a father and mother known to him and bound to each other by marriage.
	www.scborromeo.org /ccc/p3s2c2a6.htm (4767 words)

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