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On July 13, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first over-the-counter hormonal contraceptive. The progesterone-only “mini-pill” is expected to be on drug store shelves as early as next year. While the secular media frames this as a win in the fight for reproductive rights, this is really a victory for the culture of death.
While the document encourages couples to engage in “responsible parenthood” characterized by prayerful discernment regarding the spacing of births, it condemns the use of artificial means to render the marital act infertile. This is a rejection of God’s authority and a refusal to accept the total gift of one’s spouse in that act — including his or her fertility.
Amidst dissenting voices in the Church, Paul VI prophetically proclaimed the consequences of widespread contraceptive use we see today: rampant infidelity, promiscuity, inappropriate contentography, and governmental population control.
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Catholic teaching on birth control
In the decades leading up to the initial FDA approval of hormonal contraceptives, Christian denominations were united in their opposition to birth control. The Catholic position against contraceptives was rearticulated in light of this invention in Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humane Vitae, which argues that contraception violates the total, faithful, fruitful gift of the spouses to one another that is proper to the sacrament of marriage.While the document encourages couples to engage in “responsible parenthood” characterized by prayerful discernment regarding the spacing of births, it condemns the use of artificial means to render the marital act infertile. This is a rejection of God’s authority and a refusal to accept the total gift of one’s spouse in that act — including his or her fertility.
Amidst dissenting voices in the Church, Paul VI prophetically proclaimed the consequences of widespread contraceptive use we see today: rampant infidelity, promiscuity, inappropriate contentography, and governmental population control.
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Why the FDA's decision on an over-the-counter birth control pill is so dangerous to women and girls
Catholic bioethicist Samantha Stephenson pulls no punches in her reaction to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the first over-the-counter hormonal contraceptive. “The progesterone-only ‘mini-pill’ is expected to be on drug store shelves as early as next year,” Stephenson...
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