Does Wal Mart Support Abortion or Contraception?

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Bella3502 said:
TC2, Aaron conveniently forgot to mention that most Catholic couples of childbearing age use some form of birth control that is not NFP. When it comes to birth control discussion of any kind, the rhetoric usually falls under the “do as I say, not as I do” rule.:hmmm:
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Roger that Bella. I am actually the Catholic’s worst nightmare. I come to Mass and attend my RCIA class with 5 children ages 8,6,4,2,7 months… And I’m PROTESTANT! (looking to join on Easter DESPITE what I am seeing among the ‘Catholic Faithful’)

ALSO, I am this parish’s PHARMACIST

ALSO, no other couple has more than 2 or 3 children(LUCKY TO HAVE THAT MANY) in the WHOLE CONGREGATION.

Well, like Jesus said…

intrate per angustam portam quia lata porta et spatiosa via quae ducit ad perditionem et multi sunt qui intrant per eam quam angusta porta et arta via quae ducit ad vitam et pauci sunt qui inveniunt eam(St. Matthew 7:13 Latin Vulgate)

Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat. How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it!(St. Matthew 7:13 Douay-Rheims)

Or better yet:

Another parable he proposed to them, saying: The kingdom of heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seed in his field. But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat and went his way. And when the blade was sprung up, and had brought forth fruit, then appeared also the cockle. And the servants of the good man of the house coming said to him. Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? Whence then hath it cockle? And he said to them: An enemy hath done this. And the servants said to him: Wilt thou that we go and gather it up? And he said: No, lest perhaps gathering up the cockle, you root up the wheat also together with it. Suffer both to grow until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up first the cockle, and bind it into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye into my barn. (St. Matthew 13:24-30 Douay-Rheims)

From my vantage point, it appears that there are very few heads of grain poking out from the weeds within the Catholic Church in America.

An interesting note from Augustine to come…
 
So I have a quote from Augustine, but I am hesitant to use it because it’s used by American Catholics to justify ‘catholic divorce’… the situation in which 6 percent of the world’s Catholics(Americans) issue 90% of the worlds annulments…(but over 90 percent of those American ‘catholic divorces’ that are challenged are overturned by the Roman Rota)…

Anyway, I digress…

Here’s the quote. Augustine actually makes the claim that couples using chemical ‘birth control’ are not truly married:

Augustine

“I am supposing, then, although you are not lying [with your wife] for the sake of procreating offspring, you are not for the sake of lust obstructing their procreation by an evil prayer or an evil deed. Those who do this, although they are called husband and wife, are not; nor do they retain any reality of marriage, but with a respectable name cover a shame. Sometimes this lustful cruelty, or cruel lust, comes to this, that they even procure poisons of sterility. . . . Assuredly if both husband and wife are like this, they are not married, and if they were like this from the beginning they come together not joined in matrimony but in seduction. If both are not like this, I dare to say that either the wife is in a fashion the harlot of her husband or he is an adulterer with his own wife” (Marriage and Concupiscence 1:15:17 [A.D. 419]).
 
TC2 said:
Aaron, thanks for the concern, I genuinely appreciate it.
I am not Catholic, however, but responded as someone
who knows for certain that WM does sell such drugs.
That’s all.

I won’t go into the why’s of my need for both, as I don’t want
to hijack. Again, thank you for your concern and advice!
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