A long night with your friends, and one thing leads to another. You’re in bed with you’re friend of the opposite sex. No it’s not a sleepover. And yes you’re about to have sex. Yet, she tells you she’s on Birth control. What is birth control? Well, birth control can come in many forms, from condoms, both male and female, to pills that women ingest. These controversial forms of preventing babies have been brought in court several times, with various religious groups going against it.
The Catholic Church has stated that the only form of contraception that they allow is abstinence. But we live in the 21st century; kids are beginning to have sex earlier and earlier and without these forms of contraception, there will be thousands of babies born premature and into unsafe households.
Their arguments lack evidence, stating that diseases like HIV can pass through a condom and that birth control will make your kid loose moraled. I’m sorry world, but the typical 21st century teenager becomes sexually active at the age of 16 and society won’t revert back to the day and age where sex meant babies.
“In 1997, the Vatican's Pontifical Council for the Family stated: … it harms true love and denies the sovereign role of God in the transmission of human life.” The values that their arguments lie upon are belief, with no true studies that show “true love” isn’t blemishing because sex is less occurring. (In fact you’d probably think the opposite) But all in all, belief what you want, but birth control isn’t going away anytime soon.
Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_views_on_contraception
An incredibly important topic.
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