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Contraception

Contraception. What is Contraception?. Any action undertaken to prevent conception or fertilization. Why Contraception?. For a committed couple to prevent ever having children For a committed couple to prevent having children for the present

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Contraception

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  1. Contraception

  2. What is Contraception? • Any action undertaken to prevent conception or fertilization

  3. Why Contraception? • For a committed couple to prevent ever having children • For a committed couple to prevent having children for the present • For a non-committed partners to prevent having children

  4. Types of Contraception • Permanent Sterilization • Vasectomy, tubal ligation • Barrier Method • Condom, diaphragm • Oral contraceptive • The pill, ECPs • Intrauterine devices (IUD) • Rhythm Method (natural family planning) • Withdrawal (coitus interruptus)

  5. Purpose of Sex for the Catholic Church

  6. What do you think?

  7. What do you think?

  8. What do you think?

  9. Catholic Sexual Ethics and Contraception: 4 documents; 4 Popes • Pope Pius XI: Casti Connubii, 1930 • Pope Pius XII: Address to Italian Midwives, 1951 • Vatican II : Gaudium et Spes, 1965 • Pope Paul VI: Humanae Vitae, 1968 • (Pope John Paul II wrote many works both before HV and since that expounded upon HV).

  10. CastiConnubii • Pius XI • 1930 • In response to Episcopalian bishops who allowed contraception within marriages • Sex’s primary goal of sex is procreation • There are secondary goals (love and pleasure), • Those goals are to be “subordinated to the primary end and so long as the intrinsic nature of the act is preserved.”

  11. Address to Italian Midwives • Pius XII • 1951 • Allows married couples to have sex during the infertile times of a woman’s cycle when there is good reason to do so • Medical • Economic • Social

  12. Gaudium et Spes • Vatican II • Under Pope John XXIII • 1965 • On Joy and Hope • Acknowledges that conjugal love has a substantial value apart from procreation • However, the two are still not unrelated • Things still need to be discussed • Creates a commission on the study of marriage, family, and births so that the Pope can pass judgment.

  13. Papal Commission on Population, Family, and Birth • Initlialized by John XXIII • 3 priests, 2 physicians, 1 economist • Paul VI enlarged it • First to 18 people • Then to 65 • Including single women and men, married couples, social scientists, bishops, Cardinals, etc. • 4 of the 65 said that current Church teaching should stand • Including Archbishop Karol Wojtyła • The rest said that there needed to be a change.

  14. Humanae Vitae • Issued by Pope Paul VI • 1968 • Reaffirms that unitive and procreative cannot be divided. • No longer primary/secondary reasons • Leaves room for rhythm method/Natural Family Planning • Met with anger and dissent among laity, clergy, and even bishops and Cardinals • Particularly in the US

  15. Ethical arguments for contraception • Sometimes, it’s immoral or socially irresponsible for a couple to have more children. • Couples need to express their love for one another; but they don’t always need to have children. • Natural family planning is just like non-artificial contraception. How can one be good and one be bad? • Disease control and population control are ethical issues, too.

  16. Ethical arguments against contraception • Natural law clearly shows that sex is for procreation. Manipulating that goes against God and nature. • Artificial contraception is unnatural. • Creates a callous attitude towards sex • It makes it easier to enter into the sexual act without commitment or intentionality • Language of sex says “I love you entirely;” language of contraception says “I don’t love your fertility.” • Some contraceptives prevent implantation, not conception, which could be considered an abortion (the pill).

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