2006-08-30 05:45:54 · 36 answers · asked by lilquietviv 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Some people only have sex to procreate (they think it is a sin otherwise). Most Roman Catholics believe this. Therefore they are against birth control (and against abortion and against masturbation).
A lot of anti-abortion people are against people using Abortion as a means of birth control. Young women who say, "oh if I get pregnant I will just get an abortion." These people are very pro condom, the pill, etc....
Prevention of pregnancy is the reason for most birth control (only some froms of birth control are for the prevention on disease). Those that use it, do not want to get pregnant because they do not want to have to have a moral dilema when it comes to a baby or abortion. Most of these people are having sex for fun, or already have a family and can not afford another child. They do not want an abortion, but they don't want another mouth to feed... and they don't want to adopt out a baby that they will love. So, they use birth control.
2006-08-30 05:48:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Depends. Are we talking about "the pill" birth control, or condoms?
I am opposed to the murder of human life. I am not opposed to the removal of human cells.
From the moment of conception, the egg cell and sperm cell that once were, cease to exist, but rather, is now a unique human life.
The egg cell is not a unique human life, but is a unique human cell... no different than a blood cell, a skin cell, or whatnot. Same with the sperm cell. It is no different than a muscle cell, or an intestinal cell. But when the two combine, they become one, a new being. To seperate back into two means that person's death.
To keep them seperate, without them having ever joined, means nothing.
I think of conception the way God instituted marriage and forbade divorce... "For the two (the man and the woman) shall become one flesh", "Therefore they are not two, but one flesh: What God has joined together, let no one take apart". The sperm of the man and the egg of the woman are no longer two seperate cells, but one flesh... one being... and once put together, no one should have the right to take it apart.
However, I also think of it like this... a man in China never meets a woman in South America. They do not, nor will ever, know of each other. Is there, then, any harm in keeping them seperated? No, since they don't know any better.
Condoms are akin to the previous example. There is no harm in keeping one seperate from the other. Pills, however, have the potential to kill a brand new unborn baby, and this I do not agree with.
2006-08-30 06:22:22 · answer #2 · answered by seraphim_pwns_u 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Nope. Birth control prevents conception. Abortion happens after conception. Birth control prevents sperm and egg from joining together to create a life. Abortion destroys the life.
2006-08-30 05:49:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Of course not. Birth control prevents conception; abortion stops an already-conceived embryo from continuing to develop. Now, you will get a load of religious crap that says the cells are a person the minute the sperm hits the egg, but that's just ridiculous on any kind of scientific level. And, it wouldn't explain an objection to a condom or diaphragm, both of which prevent sperm from reaching the egg.
2006-08-30 05:50:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not at all, When using birth control you are stopping the fertilization of the egg. With an abortion you are ceasing the life of a zygote, depending on the stage of pregnancy when the abortion takes place. In other words, with an abortion your ceasing the life of a fertilized egg , with birth control your preventing an egg to be fertilized. If opposing abortion coincided with the use of birth control, then a women's menses would also have to be opposed.
2006-08-30 07:24:37 · answer #5 · answered by R Breazy 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No it makes you a smart, responsible, modern day logical thinker! Abortion is ending a life; birth control is just preventing a life from ever existing. No harm done there.
2006-08-30 05:50:35 · answer #6 · answered by Confuscious 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No birth control is used to prevent pregnancy and abortions are to terminate pregnancy there's a big difference
2006-08-30 05:49:56 · answer #7 · answered by daisy_2001 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No because birth control is preventive, and abortion happens after the fact.
2006-08-30 05:51:48 · answer #8 · answered by magz 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Birth control = prevention of a living being
Abortion = killing a living being
How are these the same?
2006-08-30 05:50:29 · answer #9 · answered by midlandsharon 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not at all. I oppose using abortion as birth control.
2006-08-30 05:49:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋