Our civilization, with so many scientific and technological advances, should be the Culture of life and love and truth... however it is sinking into a Culture of Death:
In addition to the ancient scourges of poverty, hunger, endemic diseases, natural disasters, violence and war, new threats are emerging on an alarmingly vast scale: Abortion , euthanasia (to kill the very poor or the handicapped, or the very ill or too old), a contraceptive mentality, sterilization, homosexuality, drugs, terrorism, murder...
The promotion of certain kinds of sexual activity spreading AIDS, syphilis, herpes, hepatitis...besides being morally unacceptable, also involve grave risks to life...
Contraceptives do not reduce abortions but increase them: The contraceptive mentality--which is very different from responsible parenthood, lived in respect for the full truth of the conjugal act--are such that they in fact strengthen this temptation when an unwanted life is conceived.
Indeed, the pro- abortion culture is especially strong precisely where the Church's teaching on contraception is rejected.
Certainly, from the moral point of view contraception and abortion are specifically different evils: the former contradicts the full truth of the sexual act as the proper expression of conjugal love, while the latter destroys the life of a human being; the former is opposed to the virtue of chastity in marriage, the latter is opposed to the virtue of justice and directly violates the divine commandment "You shall not kill"....despite the differences, contraception and abortion are often closely connected, as fruits of the same tree... of sin! Abortion: "Pro-Choice" and "Pro-Life"... God is Pro-Life!
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