birth control/contraception Options

[*tweeak*]

im catholic and a couple weeks ago at mass the deacon supposedly told all women who were using contraception/birth control not to recieve communion. i think that is going way to far as it is not killing babies because theyre not being concieved to begin with, especially as there is a chance of becoming pregnant even when youre using it.

what is your opinion on it? is using contraception/birth control alright or not?

[Yemmerz]

With the whole Catholic perspective, you have to realize this religion was formed so many years ago. They believed that sperm were little children, which also explains why men aren't allowed to masterbate either.

I personally believe that it's not okay to have sex with like 10 different people. If you believe someone you are with is going to be your husband or wife, go for it. But don't go have sex with the neighborhood hottie (lol). So use contraception, get tested for an STD, and use birth control if necessary.

[*kryogenix*]

With the whole Catholic perspective, you have to realize this religion was formed so many years ago. They believed that sperm were little children, which also explains why men aren't allowed to masterbate either.

This is a misunderstanding. I don't know if Catholics believed that sperm were little children, but they don't believe so now. However, scientists in the past have believed that cold air causes disease, among other things. Is this to say we are not to trust science anymore?

Also, this doesn't explain why men are not allowed to masturbate. This is the Catholic teaching on masturbation:

CCC 2352

By masturbation is to be understood the deliberate stimulation of the genital organs in order to derive sexual pleasure. "Both the Magisterium of the Church, in the course of a constant tradition, and the moral sense of the faithful have been in no doubt and have firmly maintained that masturbation is an intrinsically and gravely disordered action."138 "The deliberate use of the sexual faculty, for whatever reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose." For here sexual pleasure is sought outside of "the sexual relationship which is demanded by the moral order and in which the total meaning of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of true love is achieved."

Tottaly OK. I mean its like you said its really not a matter of "abortion" so your not really sinning. UNLESS your not married but thats a whole other thread wink.gif Moving on i think thats kind of disrespectful on a part of the deacon. unsure.gif Then again i dont enjoy mass very much.....yawn.gif

It is still against Catholic teaching.

CCC 2370

Periodic continence, that is, the methods of birth regulation based on self-observation and the use of infertile periods, is in conformity with the objective criteria of morality. These methods respect the bodies of the spouses, encourage tenderness between them, and favor the education of an authentic freedom. In contrast, "every action which, whether in anticipation of the conjugal act, 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 intrinsically evil:

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. This leads not only to a positive refusal to be open to life but also to a falsification of the inner truth of conjugal love, which is called upon to give itself in personal totality. . . . The difference, both anthropological and moral, between contraception and recourse to the rhythm of the cycle . . . involves in the final analysis two irreconcilable concepts of the human person and of human sexuality.