Cherie Blair Attacks Church Teaching on Contraception…Again

[lemonbeam]

December 15, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Cherie Blair, the wife of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, has again attacked the Catholic Church’s teaching on sex and contraception, despite her continued claims to be a “devout” Catholic.

In an article in the Tatler, one of England’s most venerable society magazines focusing on the lives of the upper classes and elites, Cherie Blair disparaged natural family planning methods, saying, “Personally, I think it is better to go for contraception that works.”

Blair again reiterated her theme that it is artificial contraception that has allowed women to “progress.” Contraception, she said, “is quite different from abortion.”

“Controlling our fertility has been one of the key reasons why women have been able to progress and in Africa it can mean the difference between life and death, in preventing the spread of HIV. I hope the position of the Church will change on this.”

Mrs. Blair has made her insistence on the moral separation between abortion and contraception a theme in her recent interviews and talks. Late last year, she was invited to the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) to speak on the progress of women’s rights and at that time she said, “There is a real danger in this debate if we ally contraception and abortion as the same and the Church needs to engage in this issue properly.”

Read more: lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/dec/09121507.html

 

[redrosetea]

Read more: lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/dec/09121507.html

Who cares what she thinks ,or her husband? They are legends in their own minds

 

[manualman]

It’s an old English tradition for “devout catholic” leadership to put a “minor” asterisk after that devout label and have that asterisk refer to dissent on matters of sex and marriage… Never seems to work out very well though. You’d think they’d learn something after a while.

 

[mykesobe]

Cherie Blaire is the same “devout Catholic” that Henry VIII was … (sarcasm intended)