More dignified or less dignified?
Check out this thoughtful article from a secular organization, Business Insider, asking people to look at the Church's position on sexual ethics (e.g. birth control) before discounting it as 'outdated' and to step back and consider whether or not a 'contraceptive culture' that is promoted is good for women, men, or families.
He writes: Today's injunctions against birth control were re-affirmed in a 1968 document by Pope Paul VI called Humanae Vitae. He warned of four results if the widespread use of contraceptives was accepted:
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2. A rise in infidelity, and illegitimacy
3. The reduction of women to objects used to satisfy men.
4. Government coercion in reproductive matters.
Does that sound familiar? Because it sure sounds like what's been happening for the past 40 years.
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Great article. I remember reading Humanae Vitae (sp?) and feeling like my thinking was being completely, utterly shaken to the core, so different was it from everything I had accepted as true and obvious. This article sums it up well; thanks for posting.
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