The Chances of Car Wrecks & Abortions

[BibleReader]

xenocryst:

Hello, all. This is my first real post here, so no biting!

On the way home from work today, a non-Catholic friend of mine was debating with me about the immorality of birth control pills. One of the questions he raised was whether there was a difference in the chances a person takes while driving to work (intending to get there safely) verses the chances a person take by taking the pill (intending to avoid pregnancy).

Both have a risk of a unintentionally causing a death. Knowing that the chance is small for either scenario and not intending to cause a death in either scenario… Why is it not a grave sin to hit a slick spot on the road, swerve off the road, and kill some one on your drive to work? Why is it a grave sin to experience a failure of the conception prevention of the pill and abort a life?

Deep down, I feel that the pill isn’t the same, but I don’t know how to justify the contradicting scenarios above. Any answers?

One has to look at the big picture and comprehend the dynamics of it.

Driving to work becomes a necessary risk because most starve and die if they do not. So, the dynamics that one must look at are a *balancing *of risk of an accident against the certainty of starvation and death.

The Pill is a “fetus killing machine” which one imbibes to access “nookie” un-inconvenienced by the naturally-imposed risk of conception. In other words, we are imbibing a known fetus-killing pill to create a genital pleasure making opportunity not provided by nature at the time the Pill genuinely renders the woman infertile.

The trip to work nets out to be a risk-undertaken-to-preserve-life.

The Pill nets out to be a risk-to-life undertaken to maximize genital pleasure.

 

[xenocryst]

I like your analogy, Madia.

I think I’ll pass this on to him and see what he says. Thanks!