Hi... I'm Catholic, and my ccd teacher says contreception is wrong. what is your opinion?

Question

what is your opinion?

I don't think it's a big deal, and i think it's good.

don't get me wrong, i love being a catholic, but some things i don't agree with.

Answer 1

Okay, for starters I am not telling you not to use birth control. I don't know your situation and it could be very different from mine. I'm Catholic but I'm not perfect. I used birth control for almost three years. It wasn't until recently that my husband and I decided to start using natural family planning. Honestly I hated the way the pill physically made me feel and I always carried around some guilt about using it. I'm much happier using NFP. We are, however, married with good jobs and if we became pregnant it would not be a problem. The bottom line is just be responsible. I have my beliefs but I can in no way instruct you to do the same. If you are at all interested or curious about natural family planning this website has a good amount of information.

http://www.ccli.org/

Answer 2

I'm Catholic, too. I've been happily married for 13 years and my husband and I have 3 kids.

Yes, contraception is wrong. It's wrong for many reasons.

It's wrong for your health. Hormonal birth control shortens the lives of women. It cause liver and heart problems, strokes and deadly blood clots. Even young women die from hormonal birth control. Check it out:

http://www.yourlawyer.com/articles/read/10949


It's wrong for your relationship. Hormonal birth control puts all the risk on the women while the men have no risk at all. And barrier birth control puts a barrier between the man and the woman during an act that is supposed to be completely unifying. Plus it is a rejection of each other's fertility. How can you be totally unified and totally loving when you are rejecting the other person's fertility?

It's also wrong because we are created in God's image, and He is the Creator. For some reason, it pleased Him to give us the ability to participate in Creation through creating new human life. We should be overjoyed at the ability to create new life in an act of ultimate closeness, unity and pleasure between husband and wife. We should NOT look at this ability as a bad thing.

Furthermore, artificial birth control is not necessary. We women cannot get pregnant every single day of the month. We can only get pregnant during ovulation, when a viable egg is present, and God, in His amazing wisdom, gave each women signs of ovulation so she can tell when it's about to happen. If a couple is not in a position to welcome another child for the moment (maybe they are out of work or maybe there is a newborn at home and they need a little time before they can handle another baby), all the couple needs to do is abstain from sexual relations while the wife is ovulating. It isn't difficult. And it's actually very important for EVERY woman to track her ovulatory patterns, because she can detect serious health issues like ovarian cancer, cervical cancer, PCOS, etc., very early on when treatment is most effective.

You have provided NO reasons for thinking that birth control is good. What do you like about it? Do you like the fact that it could ruin your health? Do you like the idea of rejecting part of your partner's health (fertility)? Do you like the idea of rejecting God's offer of including us in Creation? Do you just like the idea of being able to have sex without any responsibilities? What is it that is so "good"?

Answer 3

I have used contraception in the past.

I believe that life begins at conception so I will not knowingly prevent that life from implanting in the uterus. So I personally would not use an IUD. even a hormonal one.

I have used birth control pills and probably would again because they cause you not to ovulate. So theretically there is no chance of conception. (though to be fair I have gotten pregnant 2x on the pill and was using the pills as I was supposed to)

I have also used natural family planning (not sexing right before or after ovulation, I have pain when i ovulate so its easy to tell) with great success. I have had less pregnancy scares in the 4 years we did natural family planning then when i was on the pill. Though the periodic absinance was annoying.

I would use condoms also, though my skin doesnt like them much.

i think the kind of birth control you use, or if you use itat all is highly personal, and you need to search your own morality and see if the method alligns with it.

Answer 4

Ask your CCD teacher to elaborate on the teaching so you will not only understand the reasons why the Church is against but also appreciate it.

Birth control is a term which really means just the opposite of what it sounds like: if successful it results in no birth and no self control. Artificial contraception was condemned as a sinful act by every major Christian denomination in the world, Protestant and Catholic, until 1930. This condemnation was based on the fact that other than abstinence, early man had no method of preventing pregnancy except withdrawal (coitus interruptus). This practice, which is also called onanism, is condemned in Genesis 38:7-10 (keep in mind that during this period in the history of mankind if a man died without having fathered a son, it was the duty of his brother to provide his brother's widow with an heir):

"Er, Judith's firstborn, was wicked in the Lord's sight; so the Lord put him to death. Then Judith said to Onan, ‘Lie with your brother's wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to produce offspring for your brother.' But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so whenever he lay with his brother's wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from producing offspring for his brother. What he did was wicked in the Lord's sight; so he put him to death also." (NIV)

In the 1930 Lambreth Conference, the Anglican Church declared that artificial contraception was not considered sinful "where there was a clearly identified moral obligation to limit or avoid parenthood." In other words, it was left totally up to the consciences of the individuals involved. Within a relatively few years, every Protestant denomination had stopped condemning artificial contraception. Today, most promote it.
Genesis 1:27-28 says: "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them. ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.'" (NIV)

In the sex act in marriage, the couple is complying with God's command and is performing an act of re-creation; with God's help they are creating a new life. Sexual activity using artificial contraception is a deliberate act to derive sexual pleasure (mutual masturbation) while avoiding the natural result of such activity (see the chapter titled "SIN"). It is an act of recreation rather than re-creation as it is ordered toward self rather than toward God. Within society at large since 1930, the divorce rate has steadily increased until it has reached approximately 50 percent of all marriages. Within marriages which consciously practice Natural Family Planning (NFP), the divorce rate is approximately 2 percent.

Answer 5

The Catholic church teaches that contraception is wrong.

Your CCD teacher is simply telling you the truth.

Here's a tip: Any time you think you know better than the church ... you're wrong.

See how simple that is?

Answer 6

Your teacher is correct. Contraception is not allowed. The marital act should always be open to life. Contraception is just a way for people to do what they want when they want and not have to pay the consequences (but they're fooling themselves).

Answer 7

I say do what ever you feel is right for you those of us who choose to have a choice in religion, doesn't mean we do everything we were taught, this is what Christ died for, our sins, we all sin, weather willingly or things just happen. for we are weak and he is strong. there are enough restricting laws/rules in this concentration camp we call america, you have to make you happy & if someone else is a willilng participant then do your thing :-D have at it (((((bbh)))))

Answer 8

Live your life with intelligence, instinct and common sense instead of how you were taught. If you look at all the broken families, unhappiness, and lack of respect within the family structure in general, it is obvious that birth control isn't used enough.

Answer 9

It is wrong, because contraception DENIES the very life-giving exhange of love between a married man and woman! Man and women are endowed with the special gift of life-giving.

The Triune God's love is: faithful, fruitful, life-giving (not sterile) and free.

Man and woman are supposed to image the Triune God.

Answer 10

Perhaps the teacher would volunteer to raise the fruit of your activity too, if you are not ready for children.