You are correct, those are excellent reasons for abortion … I mean, contraception. Wait, I guess they work for both. Hmmm, maybe the church has it figured out after all.
By the same token, people who are taking contraceptives because they have self-identified themselves as unfit for parenthood, shouldn’t be having sex. Apart from the unitive AND pro-creative purposes of the sex act, it is neither a right nor a necessity of life to engage in sex (unlike, say, like eating. A person won’t DIE if they don’t have sex) --it is simply using another person for your own pleasure.
Please take a moment to read the relevant sections of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (Sections 2366-2372).
And ask yourself the question, “If he were alive today, would Jesus be the type to hand out condoms? Or would he tell us to bring more children into the world to love?”
But we were “Fruitful and Multiplied”. 6 billion of them. Wouldn’t Onan be more like lust which is a sin.
G. K. Chesterton once wrote that the term “birth control” is a misnomer since it does not control birth but prevents it. And, it is not a form of self control, rather it assumes its users cannot control themselves.
IMHO, contraception is connected *not only *to lust, but also pride and greed, based upon the circumstances you suggest in the original post.
Yes, many have been fruitful and multiplied, but even with 6 billion humans (or whatever the current number) we haven’t yet “filled the earth”. Many cities appear full, but I live in the country and there’s a LOT of open space still available in the world. God didn’t give either Adam or Noah a specific number at which to stop mulitiplying. And dispite what population control advocates and supporters of abortion may tell you, the world is not full. Europe actually has a de-population problem in some areas because abortion and birth control have de-populated parts to the point of causing difficulites in their social structure.
And yes again, Onan’s sin is like lust. Lust is the disordered attempt to modify the way God designed sex. Contraception is one component of the sin of lust. Sex that seeks only to satisfy the humans involved, rather than also trying to satisfy God giving glory to Him with our bodies **is **lust. (for further Biblical evidence see I Corinthians 7:13-20 about glorifying God with our bodies.) Contraception, --either the old-fashioned spilling on the ground or the new-fashioned spilling into condoms, diaphrams, severed vesicles, bodies filled with artificial hormones to prevent pregnancy, etc-- seeks to separate the gift of human sexuality from the gift of human life. God designed humans so that when we make love, we often make babies.
We do not forbid birth control. The Holy Mother Church teaches that artificial birth control is intrinsinctly evil because it encourages men and women to regard each other simply as means to satisfy sexual urges. In fact, the Catechism teaches:
You know what? I think you’re right. No one working at McDonalds should be allowed to procreate. I’ll notify the authorities and call the Pope tonight.
The church does not forbid birth control. Birth control is merely the spacing and planning of a family.
I was not trying to down blue-collar workers but, those working for 5.15 (or whatever it is) an hour I doubt can afford to raise children in a way that would be fitting.
Since when do you decide who can raise children and in what way is “fitting” for those children? Other than abusive situations, I really think it’s not ours to decide.
Hmm. My brother and sister and I turned out ok
I thought we were raised quite well. No we didn’t take vacations every year or have a new car even - but God provided. I had a good education and a loving home. My Dad made minimum wage or a couple dollars above most of the time we were young. I wasn’t deprived. 
When you work hard and turn things over to the Lord, good stuff happens. 
Very good point ElizabethAnne. I’ve seen rich kids who are spoiled brats and end up feeling more sorry for them than my boyfriend’s sister who has a child out of wedlock. DB’s niece is the sweetest, funniest, and most lively kid I’ve ever met. Her mom is a single mother working as a receptionist at a dentist office, and I think she’s a more fit parent than mothers who spoil their kids with the extras.
granted, there are many good reasons for not having children, ever, or in certain circumstances. Since the purpose of sex is generating children, it follows then, that someone who does not want children will not be having sex.