birth control

[emilyt67]

Why is it considered to be a sin in the catholic church?

 

[Tantum_ergo]

Why is it considered to be a sin in the catholic church?

ARTIFICIAL birth control is a sin. Natural family planning, periodic continence etc. to ‘space’ (i.e. to control) births etc. is not.

Were you aware that until the Lambeth Conference (Anglican Church) in 1930, all the Protestant Churches of the time held the 'Catholic" position that artificial birth control was sinful?

Because of the work of people like Margaret Sanger who attempted to paint the issue as one of ‘subjugation of women’ (while hiding her eugenics views which rather involved her crusade to ‘eliminate’ blacks and the ‘unfit’), many prominent Anglicans who were concerned with ‘social justice’ felt that there might be the very ‘occasional’ good reason for some ‘poor’ woman to use birth control ‘sparingly’.

In another 20 years, it had evolved to being ‘morally licit’ based on the personal ‘judgment’ of the parties involved.

In another 20 years it was now practically elevated to a sacrament showing one’s ‘responsibility’.

Seeing the Anglicans (then the most ‘prestigious’ of Protestant groups in the Western World) jumping on board HMS “Birth Control is Good”, various other Protestant churches started jumping too.

So one might ask, “Why do PROTESTANT CHURCHES” (and mind you, not all of them DO believe that birth control is morally acceptable) NOT think that artificial birth control is wrong?

It’s not as though for 2000 years that Christians had been teaching "birth control is moral’ and suddenly the Catholics started to dissent. It’s not even as though for 2000 years there had been non-Catholic Christians teaching that it was all right, and the Catholics always dissenting.

No, instead you find ALL CHRISTIANS believing the “Catholic POV” up until less than 100 years ago. I hope that makes you want to check things out (outside the MSM and the revisionist history books). Because even the most ‘revisionist’ groups can’t ‘make’ the Christian support of artificial birth control appear any EARLIER than the 20th century, and they can’t 'make" it look as though the position on artificial birth control was something that ONLY Catholics had. And that should make you wonder about what else people want to change and why.

 

[1ke]

Why is it considered to be a sin in the catholic church?

Birth control is the spacing or avoiding of children for a time or indefinitely. The Catholic Church does not teach that it is a sin to space or avoid children for a just reason and never has.

The Church teaches that contraception is an immoral **means **of birth control. Abstaining from sexual relations-- periodically or completely-- is a moral means of birth control.

Contraception is immoral because is separates the unitive and procreative elements of an act of intercourse. God designed the coming together of spouses in a specific way. That love, when expressed physically, is to be total. It is to be unaltered. God designed the sexual faculties to be used for unity and procreation, but those goods can never be separated.

So, any time the couple has sex it has to be as God designed it. We may take no action to render it sterile. To do so is a grave sin against the Sixth Commandment.

That is why if a couple has a serious reason to postpone a pregnancy for a time (or indefinitely) they can do so by abstaining from relations. Modern science makes it possible to abstain during certain periods of the woman’s natural cycle. A couple can also choose to abstain completely until they no longer have the need to space/avoid.

 

[Ron_Conte]

Why is it considered to be a sin in the catholic church?

Contraception deprives the marital act (sex between a husband and wife) of the procreative meaning intended by God; this deprivation makes the act inherently contrary to the moral law, and therefore always immoral.

 

[PeterMuz]

Why is it considered to be a sin in the catholic church?

Tantum gave you some good history, but as for why it is wrong was not really answered. When you use birth control that is not abstinence based, like Natural Family Planning, you are talking something that God gave to you and created for you and misusing it. Sex has a purpose. It is both unitive and pro-creative. If you remove either of these by your own doing, that is a sin. The same logic is used for why the Church teaches that artificial insemination is wrong.
To help understand this, lets imagine that you create this one of a kind, absolutely beautiful piece of art and give it to a friend as a gift. You go to visit their home and they have decided use your art as a door mat. You can imagine how you would feel…
God is reasonable, he does not expect you to have a child every time you have sex, hence the reason a woman is really only fertile about 6 days a cycle.
When you use contraception, you are basically telling God that you know better than he does when you should and should not have a child. In a sense, you are playing God when you use contraception. If you and your spouse have decided that you cannot or should not have a child at the time, then you can abstain a few days. There is nothing wrong with that.

Also, sex is a free and total giving of self. When lets say you use a condom, the man is saying “I give you ALL of myself except my fertility.” It is now neither free to total.

 

[dusza]

Why is it considered to be a sin in the catholic church?

Man and woman don’t join themselves in marriage, God joins them in marriage and using birth control is like telling God to butt out. That’s a serious sin of “my will be done, not Thine”. It is the sin of Lucifer.