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Meagan34
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Hi, I had a question that came up while talking with a friend.
I am aware that the church allows the use of the birth control pill for medical/therapeutic purposes other than for the sole purpose of contraception (my situation). I was talking with a friend about this subject and she had told me that my reasons for taking the pill weren’t good enough and that sex while on the pill (even for medical reasons) is always sinful. I asked her to provide some proof of this claim and she came up with this…
"However if a married woman uses the birth control pill to treat a medical disorder, AND she continues to have sexual relations with her husband, the chosen act is inherently ordered toward two evil moral objects: the deprivation of life and the deprivation of the procreative meaning. Even though the good moral object of the treatment of the medical disorder remains, so that the act has three moral objects, the act is still intrinsically evil and always immoral. The use of abortifacient contraception has two evil moral object: that of contraception and that of abortion. The additional good moral object of treating a medical disorder remains, but does not remedy the deprivations of the other two evil moral objects.
St.Thomas Aquinas: “in order for an action to be good it must be right in every aspect because good results from a complete cause, while evil results from any single defect, as Dionysius asserts (Div. Nom. iv).” (summa Theologica, II-II, Q. 110, A,3). The woman who chooses to take a medication to treat a medical disorder has chosen an act with a good moral object. But if she also chooses to engage in sexual acts, knowing that the use of birth control pills by a sexually active woman is contraceptive and abortifacient, her choice now has 2 additional moral objects. The choice to use a medication which is abortive as well as contraceptive is an even graver sin. These sins are intrinsically evil, and so no purpose or circumstance can make the act moral."
Also, I am not looking for other suggestions to switching medications or treatments because this is what works for my body. I’m simply wondering if this is a chruch teaching or if this is just someone taking things overboard.
I am aware that the church allows the use of the birth control pill for medical/therapeutic purposes other than for the sole purpose of contraception (my situation). I was talking with a friend about this subject and she had told me that my reasons for taking the pill weren’t good enough and that sex while on the pill (even for medical reasons) is always sinful. I asked her to provide some proof of this claim and she came up with this…
"However if a married woman uses the birth control pill to treat a medical disorder, AND she continues to have sexual relations with her husband, the chosen act is inherently ordered toward two evil moral objects: the deprivation of life and the deprivation of the procreative meaning. Even though the good moral object of the treatment of the medical disorder remains, so that the act has three moral objects, the act is still intrinsically evil and always immoral. The use of abortifacient contraception has two evil moral object: that of contraception and that of abortion. The additional good moral object of treating a medical disorder remains, but does not remedy the deprivations of the other two evil moral objects.
St.Thomas Aquinas: “in order for an action to be good it must be right in every aspect because good results from a complete cause, while evil results from any single defect, as Dionysius asserts (Div. Nom. iv).” (summa Theologica, II-II, Q. 110, A,3). The woman who chooses to take a medication to treat a medical disorder has chosen an act with a good moral object. But if she also chooses to engage in sexual acts, knowing that the use of birth control pills by a sexually active woman is contraceptive and abortifacient, her choice now has 2 additional moral objects. The choice to use a medication which is abortive as well as contraceptive is an even graver sin. These sins are intrinsically evil, and so no purpose or circumstance can make the act moral."
Also, I am not looking for other suggestions to switching medications or treatments because this is what works for my body. I’m simply wondering if this is a chruch teaching or if this is just someone taking things overboard.
) But sometimes that’s what works and other treatments do not.