Hey, remember when Pope Benedict XVI said that contraception usage doesn’t lead to lower abortion rates and everyone freaked out on him. Turns out he’s right. We knew it all along but a new study is finally showing it.
And you know how certain “pro-life Democrats” say things like Barack Obama is “pro-life” because by increasing contraception use he will decrease the number of abortions. Turns out they’re wrong. And science is proving it.
LifeSiteNews reports:
A new study from Russia has revealed that, contrary to the claims of abortion advocates, Russia continues to have one of the world’s highest abortion rates despite higher contraception rates.
Researchers at Moscow State University studied changes in birth control practices in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine, and correlated the prevalence of “modern methods” of contraceptive use to trends in abortion.
They found that while Russian women have the highest rate of contraceptive use compared to those in Belarus and Ukraine, they also have the highest abortion rate.
Researchers were perplexed by this, calling the findings “contradictory,” “unexpected,” and “paradoxical.”
Weird, huh? If you convince people they have consequenceless sex which turns out to be not without consequence they will seek to rid themselves of that consequence.
This study will, of course, be ignored by those who claim to embrace science. and reason. Sheesh. It’s almost like they’re more interested in pushing an agenda than facts. Almost.
The thing is, they know that contraception leads to abortion. Think about who the biggest pushers of contraception are – Planned Parenthood, which makes millions performing abortions. Hmmm…
December 9, 2012 at 8:05 am
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December 9, 2012 at 8:44 am
@Anonymous: A tubal ligation does not equal abortion, and no Catholic says it does, because contraception is not murder—not the taking of innocent life (to say "abortion is murder" is not an emotional appeal, by the way, but a statement of fact that follows from the definitions of "murder" and "human being"; maybe your ethical philosophy is based on emotion, but some of us have mastered the arcane craft of thinking).
However, not being physical cowards like you, Catholics are capable of grasping that things that are not violence, can be wrong. That, not some imaginary conflation of abortion with contraception—do you believe your strawman can talk back to you?—is what is meant by the idea that a tubal ligation is as wrong as abortion. It is less criminally wrong, not being a direct violation of civic peace, but law is not morals, the state does not define right and wrong.
Here's an idea, shortbus: when you argue with a person, argue with what they say, not with something you'd like to pretend they said.
December 9, 2012 at 12:02 pm
xsosdid,
No where did I say sterilization should be proffered as a moral good yet two of your posts inferred that I did. I made the opposite clear. Actually slowly read the posters who offend you prior to answering. And use your real name and you'll put more work into the process…though I understand that many Catholics apparently do this to protect perhaps their workplace job? There's only two of us here with complete names. I'm done. I can't handle the anonymity overload.
December 9, 2012 at 6:01 pm
I fail to see the real concern for the contraceptive practices of post conciliar people. This is not new information. Only 10% of the teachers in U S Bishop’s schools believe in the sound teachings of the Catholic Church in regards to the practice of birth controlling. A leading factor to the “satanic” practice of birth controlling is disobedience and silence of priests and bishops to remind the “people of God” these words by Archbishop Hayes December 14, 1921:“ …….To take life after its inception is a horrible crime; but to prevent human life that the Creator is about to bring into being, is satanic….” http://www.cfnews.org/Hayes-Christmas.htm
December 9, 2012 at 6:14 pm
The U S Bishops' schools without exception place materials before the eyes of innocent youth that put their souls at risk and endanger all society. Sexualized catechetics is not only removing natural blush and shame, it is destroying sound principles of virtues and lead youth to be helplessly controlled by vices. In sexualized curriculums, the sound teachings of the Sacrament of Matrimony is absent. This sacrament is no longer taught to be primarily for the procreation and education of children. Even the new catechism gives new meaning contrary to what has been taught for centuries by Holy Mother the Church. Youth are led by sexualized curriculums to know the intimacies of their parents. These horrendous materials do not teach that conjugal loving is designed by God for the appropriately married spouses. See a description of the series "Growing In Love" with imprimatur. May this information provoke you enough to speak out. If not you the reader, than WHO?
http://www.motherswatch.net/content/view/12/6/ – Part 1
http://www.motherswatch.net/content/view/15/6/ – Part 2
December 9, 2012 at 6:33 pm
Bill Bannon,
You suggested that the Church embrace an intrinsic moral evil, now you want to cavil about semantics. You answered none of the obvious problems with your argument. Instead you plowed ahead with more examples of the same nonsense.
Thanks for the lecture on careful reading.
As for my real namme, you have obviiously never been stalked by some of the cretins on line.
December 9, 2012 at 7:36 pm
God cares about saving souls over saving bodies. Sin is not permissible when it causes lost souls.
December 9, 2012 at 7:40 pm
The Pope is even right on what he says about Human Embryonic Stem cells- see:
http://www.fiamc.org/bioethics/are-human-embryonic-stem-cells-able-to-cure-neurological-disorders/
December 9, 2012 at 8:04 pm
Cy- respectfully, I suggest you open your Catechism to paragraph 362-368. It is important to understand what the Church teaches, but WHY.
December 9, 2012 at 8:32 pm
Anon
unfortunately for the misogynist males who want to take away American females' basic rights, AMERICAN FEMALES DO HAVE A RIGHT TO DETERMINE FOR THEMSELVES WHAT THEY WILL/WILLNOT DO WITH THEIR OWN BODIES– INCLUDING TERMINATING AN UNWANTED PREGNANCY.
December 9, 2012 at 8:47 pm
Bill Bannon, come down from space and investigate sane theology. No, it is not a morally acceptable choice to sterilize all persons who might have an abortion. That leaves no room for God's grace in the equation. Call me craze, but if each person who might commit an act of abortion killed him or her self we could eliminate all sin from that person–excepting, of course, the irreversible sin of suicide. And further, if we killed all people on the planet, we could eliminate all sin–forever. Of course we could never really know if that would work because no one would be here to witness the mass reduction in sin. Does a tree fall if nobody hears it?
Billy, it's a wacky, wacky world. BTW, there's no chance of you becoming pope, is there?
December 9, 2012 at 8:55 pm
Anon, there is one tiny problem with condemning "misogynist males" for their wild rush to take away a woman's right to do with her body what she wants. The fetus has a unique DNA code. If the baby WAS the mother it would have the same DNA. Wise second graders are quick to conclude that if the DNA is different, the person must be different. Not the mother, but different. Don't you feel silly?
December 9, 2012 at 9:04 pm
HEY, ALLAN!
YET another MALE MISOGYNIST WHO BELIEVES THAT he HAS A RIGHT TO DICTATE TO AMERICAN FEMALES WHAT THEY CAN/CAN'T DO WITH THEIR OWN BODIES.
DO you BELIEVE THAT YOU AND/OR ANY OTHER MALE HAS A RIGHT TO RAPE AND/OR OTHERWISE COMMIT VIOLENT CRIMINAL ACTS AGAINST A FEMALE?
ACCORDING TO WHAT YOU HAVE WRITTEN, YOU obviously DO!
December 9, 2012 at 9:11 pm
Hey, Allan!
Unfortunately for you and/or other male misogynists, WHEN YOU AND/OR OTHER MISOGYNISTS COMMIT CRIMINAL ACTS AGAINST AMERICAN FEMALES WHO DI, IN FACT, HAVE CONSTITUTIONAL/CIVIL/LEGAL RIGHTS OVER THEIR OWN BODIES– YOU can LEGALLY BE PROSECUTED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW!
UNFORTUNATELY FOR you AND/OR YOUR MISOGYNIST PEERS,THANKFULLY, THE ROMAN CHURCH does NOT HAVE A RIGHT TO DICTATE TO AMERICAN FEMALES WHAT TO BELIEVE/NOT BELIEVE.
December 9, 2012 at 9:31 pm
Anonymous, did you spill your apple juice? Your caps lock seems to be stuck. It makes you sound angry
December 9, 2012 at 9:57 pm
@Capslock-obsessed anonymous: You can call people who oppose a special right to murder "misogynists" if you like—ad hominem is plainly all you are capable of. I'm truly curious to know what school of ethics classes the kiri sute gomen as a "basic human right"; do you also consider the Meiji government's rescinding of that right to have been a step away from egalitarianism?
The fact, child, is that you believe that people should have special rights based on their sex—that women should have the right to commit murder. When you sit here and say—or rather bellow—that, you do understand that you lose the right to accuse other people of sexism?
December 9, 2012 at 10:49 pm
Hey, XODODID–
What happened? Did a nice FEMINIST just take away YOUR ILLUSIONS that YOU and/or your fellow misogynists CAN VIOLATE FEMALE AMERICANS RIGHTS AT WILL!!!!!!!!!!
HURRAH for the feminist!
December 9, 2012 at 10:58 pm
Not apple juice, then?
December 9, 2012 at 11:09 pm
Hey, XSODID–
Maybe YOU could benefit from some HARD FOOD…. HARD, OF COURSE, FOR a TODDLER to chew….. AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW…. PLEASE, GO TALK TO mommie about YOUR problems with little girls……
duh………
OF COURSE, MOST MALE PERVERTS HAVE had PROBLEMS WITH THEIR MOMMIES………..DO TELL!