Should birth control be illegal?

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I mean, what would prohibiting birth control do, except raise the abortion rate?
 
ATrai said:
I see it on par with the dangers of alcohol. It can be abused, but it is not illegal because using it does not necessarily mean one is abusing it.

Back to the original point, if you consider marijuana to be justly illegal in most states, why don’t Catholics also push for birth control to be
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Heroin used to be used in children’s cough syrup as apparently it was not addictive we know differently now don’t we. Just beacuse something like Marajuana can be used as a medicine doesn’t mean that it should be used as a medicine.

And as for Catholics pushing for birth control to be illegal it’s not something I could ever agree too I depend on birth control for SERIOUS medical reasons my only other option is a hysterectomy and for me personally I could never go the hysterectomy route.

If birth control became illegal more and more men would be having a vasectomy or there would be more unwanted pregnancies and more abortions everyone has different beliefs and religions and I think that it is important for us to respect those beliefs what is right and just to us could be something entirely different to someone else
 
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It’s not the miracle drug its fans want it to be. Every medicine has side effects. Every medicine can be abused.
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It’s also not the devil’s lettuce like its detractors claim it to be (and, actually, romaine is the devil’s lettuce it seems). Marijuana is less a menace to society than alcohol. It does have side effects, but it also has legitimate medical uses. Migraines, insomnia, chronic pain, anxiety, epilepsy, seizures. Places where pot is legal also see a decrease in opioid dependency.
 
Yes, birth control should be illegal except when prescribed as a hormone treatment for some medical condition (preventing pregnancy is not a legitimate purpose). Birth control is not morally neutral. Marijuana on the other hand is like alcohol, as long as you don’t do it to access, it’s not evil in and of itself.
 
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Rhubarb:
I mean, what would prohibiting birth control do, except raise the abortion rate?
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Hush, don’t use common sense in the birth control/abortion debate!
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I would argue that ready access to birth control, especially to the point where it’s considered a good thing in society, increases abortion, not decreases it.
 
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But the 90% chance of having a child with sma type 1, like my wife and I have isn’t? It’s a guaranteed death sentence by 1 for 85-90 percent of the cases. I watched my parents bury 2 children it nearly destroyed them emotionally.
 
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birth control pills/devices are NEVER going to illegal by US civil code

my/your opinion on the issue is irrelevant with regard to the reality of the situation

OP is trolling…

in the USA we let the “states” decide issues like this…
 
mental health professionals would say it is, based on the way some people react to it
 
ATrai said:
I know many people would say that abortion can be considered objectively evil, not just from a religious standpoint. But isn’t that true of all good theology/apologetics?
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The difference is that abortion isn’t just a sin against God; it’s a sin against other humans too (specifically those humans aborted).

If something is only a sin against God then banning it would be infringing on religious freedom, but if something is also a sin against other humans then banning it is justified from a secular view as well. That’s why of the 10 commandments only the 5th (“Thou shalt not murder”), 7th (“Thou shalt not steal”), and 8th (“Thou shalt not bare false witness” [lying under oath in court is a serious crime]) are enshrined into law.
 
Contraceptives used to be illegal in the US, I believe under the Comstock laws.
Fun fact: these laws were passed by Protestant lawmakers.
Before the 1930s, the major religious groups all strongly opposed ABC. Then, for various reasons, the various groups abandoned this teaching, one by one.

So, it’s actually not a hypothetical question.

Will these laws come back any time soon?

Prolly not.
 
Murder is always murder.

Because it is a child doesn’t mean it is less a murder.
 
abortifacient types of contraception should be illegal. In a pluralistic society, where most persons are not Catholic, we might have to settle for permitting contraception to be legal as long as it is not abortifacient.
 
St Thomas Aquinas argued that just because something is a sin does not mean it should be illegal. I believe that for that reason contraception should not be illegal (though it should not be encouraged either).

I agree 100% with the other posters on the forum however that abortion should be illegal because we are talking about the taking of an innocent life, which cannot be legitimized at all. Same with euthanasia
 
You’re the one who’s taking the risk and that’s also a fringe case.
 
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