ethical delima on birth control and catholics?

Question

what are the catholica beliefs about birth control

Answer 1

Judeo-Christian tradition has taught for thousands of years:
1. Single people should be celibate.
2. Married people should be faithful to each other (adultery is wrong).
3. Married couples should welcome God's gift of children and, therefore, artificial birth control was against the will of God.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

To understand Catholic teaching on birth control, you have to understand a two more basic teachings:

1) Life is considered absolutely sacred. It is a gift from God and we are not to tamper with trying to "create" it and we are not to force it to unnaturally end. (In other words, no killing.)

2) Sex is an act whose primary purpose is to create life. Its place is within the context of a marriage and it is always to take place in such a way that procreation is possible. The funny thing is that the church is just fine with a married couple enjoying sex.

So from these two teachings, the RCC says that birth control interferes with the natural order of creating life, which is to be left up to the will of God. Even though nothing is killed, life is prevented from forming.

On the ethical side (or should I say, moral), there is a line of Catholic Moral thought that applies to making big decisions: a person is to look at the situation and take into account church teaching, the bible, tradition, the sciences, and his/her own experience/wisdom/logic. If a person takes the time to *seriously* reflect and pray over these things, the decision will be between that person and God. It begs the question WHY someone wants to use birth control.

Answer 3

The Catholic Church teaches that artificial means of birth control are wrong because they inherently detract from the dignity and sacredness of the human person and the intimate relationship. Natural Family Planning (NFP) is a scientifically proven method of birth regulation that equips the couple to use the woman's natural cycle to space their children OR increase their chance of having a baby at a particular time. It is a program that involves monitoring certain body signs and signals of fertility (not counting days...) and does not involve artificial devices or hormones. Yes, it must be used properly and consistently, but so does the pill and so does a condom. You might want to read about Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body for more. There's a great book called "Theology of the Body for Beginners" by Christopher West that is a superb introduction to the Holy Father's teaching on the meaning of the body. Check it out!

Answer 4

There is no ethical dilemma.

Catholics are expected to trust in God and exercise self control to determine the size of their families.

Employing artificial methods of birth control is considered sinful because it subverts the main purpose of the marital union, whereby the husband and wife become one flesh, while faithfully cooperating with God in the the process of procreation.

Answer 5

Back in the 70's the Pope decided the rhythm method of birth control was acceptable for Catholics...

Answer 6

Catholics believe that birth control kills the living fetus The problem with this is that birth control prevents the female from producing fertile eggs which means there isn't life to kill. It's more about that they don't want people to have sex before they get married.

Answer 7

The official Catholic position on birth control is absolutely no unnatural means of contraception is permitted. This is the position of the Vatican as promulgated by Paul VI in "Humane Vitae". That leaves abstinence and "rhythm"(educated guessing about fertility cycles).

As for individual Catholics, it is statistically obvious that most do not conform to this opinion. Note: The prohibition is NOT one of those "infallible" statements, although it is consistent with other Catholic traditions. Interpret as you wish.

Answer 8

It's better to have children you can love and care for then a bunch of unwanted kids you can't support because you think birth control is immoral. Being a bad parent is worse than using a condom.

Answer 9

Condoms are a kind of guy-made delivery administration. Catholics evaluate all sorts of guy-made delivery administration to be sinful. For Catholics, we would desire to be open to the opportunity of concept each and every time we've intercourse with our spouses. concept -- arising a clean individual -- is between the main excellent privileges that we've as people created in God's image, so we are actually not meant to reject it.

Answer 10

They say that you should better not have any sex if not wanting to be a father/mother. But if should you STILL insist, you should use the rythm method or the drawing method (which aren`t birth "control" at all).

Would you believe it?

;o)