Outcome of Aurora City Council meeting
Joe’s Lab gives a good synopsis of the Aurora City Council meeting last night. I’ve asked Diane to repost her comment from another blog entry, because she gave a good synopsis, too. I’ve posted a photo montage. And I am getting citizen journalist emails on their perceptions of the meeting and will post those as comments.
Fran and I calculated 400 citizens attended. The main room had a capacity of 196, and there were people standing against all the walls and sitting on the floor. The halls on either side were full. And there were people outside who couldn’t get in. So that’s the count we came up with. The ratio of pro-life speakers to pro-aborts was 124:2….
Fran and I left at 10:30p and went to the mill. It is being covered by 40 days of round-the-clock prayer, and sure enough, there were four people walking the sidewalk and praying. It was a darkly sacred experience, if that makes sense.
I just called Joe Scheidler, and he said the meeting ended at 1:30a. So it went 7-1/2 hours.
Bottom line: The city attorney announced at the start of the citizen statements that the mayor had launched an “independent inquiry” of Planned Parenthood. But people last night were skeptical because the investigation is being conducted by just one person, Chicago attorney Richard Martens, although he sounds credentialed.
Joe said at the end of the meeting the mayor assured everyone there were no ties to this attorney, and the mayor would not let PP open on its target date of September 18 if it were found to have committed fraud.
If? I don’t know how it can be determined any other way. But as Eric Scheidler told the Beacon News, “I don’t have the disadvantage of being a lawyer. I’m just a guy who thinks that if you lie to government officials, you ought to be held accountable.” Eric apparently has the same gift of spouting clever one-liners as his dad.
The biggest applause for the 3 hours I was there was for a pro-life attorney who said, “I’m asking that PP not be allowed to open pending the investigation, and if the city council finds PP has committed fraud, that it declare all their permits and entitlements null and void. That is the law.”
I was surprised at the level of education about Planned Parenthood. To a person, everyone articulated very well what Planned Parenthood is all about.
A point with merit: One fellow read from the Aurora B-2 zoning ordinance that said a business may not lower property values. Hm.
In closing, I am pleased to announce the winning MSM headline from last night. Drum roll, please….
[HT for winning headline: John Jansen; reader jasper for Joe’s Lab link]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Email from Karen:
I want to share with you a little bit about last night’s amazing Aurora city council meeting. I think I witnessed an uprising last night–an uprising of the Holy Spirit through His people. Over 200 people jammed into the city council chambers and hallways. The meeting began at 6:00 p.m. with the open forum part of the meeting starting about 7:45 p.m. And alderman tried to cut back on our time by making a motion that speakers only be allowed until 9:00 p.m. (Normally, anyone who signs up in advance can speak.) This motion was met with a loud chorus of “No’s” from the audience, and that motion was defeated. Then a motion was made that Aurora residents be allowed to speak before non-Aurora people instead of strictly in the order in which people had signed up. This motion passed. Actually, I think it worked out well for us because it became very obvious that probably 75% of the speakers were Aurora residents.
Then the speakers started…and went on and on for 5 1/2 hours with no breaks! People were allowed 3 minutes each–although a few wrangled out an extra minute or two. People spoke until 1:15 a.m. And amazingly there still probably at least 75 people left in the room at that time, listening to the speakers and waiting to see what the council was going to do. The variety of the speakers was wonderful, with just about every aspect of the problem covered. There were a number of people who spoke about how they wouldn’t have moved to Aurora if they had known, or who now won’t shop at the Dominick’s and Blockbuster next door to where killing is occurring. Many spoke of how PP corrupts our youth. There were people who were adopted or had adopted who spoke;a woman who had placed her child for adoption; a woman who had aborted 34 years ago–a woman who had lived in the house next to Dr. Jakubowski’s back in 1991 when he bought the place and the disturbance an abortion clinic and all that accompanies it had created in her quiet life; a man who played a tape of a minor calling PP and asking for an abortion; testimonies of PP’s racist and eugenics agenda. There were professionals who shared their experiences: a Chicago OB who patches up women after botched abortions, a nurse who as a student nurse had been sent in to watch a “D & C” that turned out to be an abortion and she described the horror of it, a psychologist who has worked with post-abortive women, a nurse who has worked with the Visiting Nurses who told how VNA provides women’s health care and is PP really needed to provide that. One man, instead of making a speech, knelt and asked us all to join him in prayer. There were priests and ministers who spoke. A teen girl spoke with such wisdom that I was ready to vote for her for alderman. Then there were just regular folks, some who admitted that they had never done anything like this before. All spoke with courage and conviction about how PP is bad for the community, for women, youth, and babies. Some had driven quite a distance to speak in the wee hours of the morning explaining that PP was in their “back door” as well since women would be coming here from all over. It was a truly amazing and humbling experience to watch the Holy Spirit at work.
Of all more than 100 speakers (I heard 124 people had signed up to speak, but some weren’t there when their names were called) only two spoke in support of PP. They were NOW members and they asked the council to do something about the ordinance allowing crosses so that crosses couldn’t be displayed in the parkway for a purpose like this. (Apparently, Satan is disturbed by all the crosses, and he’s using these two women, also “victims of choice” for this part of his agenda.)
I think the message was getting through to the mayor and some of the city council. After the last speaker, the mayor said that he wanted to share with the council the next day the name of someone who he felt would be a truly independent investigator, someone who has no connection with the city, for the city council to either accept or reject. At this point, I don’t know who that investigator will be. Upon questioning from the floor, the mayor agreed not to issue an occupancy permit until the investigation is completed, and he indicated that he had no time line, that he wouldn’t require the investigation to conclude in time for PP’s planned opening date of Sept. 18.
Feedback that I received from our pro-life alderman, Rick Lawrence, and attorney Vince Tessitore last night was positive. They will be monitoring the situation. For the first time, I have a glimmer of hope that PP just might not open on Sept. 18. What an experience! The people spoke. Government by the people seemed to be at work. Thank you for the prayers that contributed to this!!
The next event is Saturday’s youth rally, planned by teens themselves. The 40 Day Vigil continues as well–this is the 21st day. We must not let our guard down yet. There is still work to be done.
Email from Eric Scheidler:
I’m sure you’re expecting a mesage about the City Council meeting last night, but I only have time for a few words here because I need to ask for your help making this Saturday’s “Youth for Truth” Rally a success. Please read on!
Last night’s Council meeting was amazing! One hundred pro-lifers, most of them Aurora residents, stood up and told the Council their
stories about why Planned Parenthood is bad for Aurora, and called for a true investigation of fraud by PP.
I’ll say more later at the Families Against Planned Parenthood blog, but for now I just want to say how proud I am of everyone who stood up and spoke or came to support the effort, which lasted until 1:30 in the morning!
Here’s the blog address:
http://familiesagainstplannedparenthood.org/blog
Now I’ve got to ask for you help — again.
This Saturday, a group of pro-life youth, led by Danny Schleitwiler of Aurora Central Catholic H.S. and home-schooler Mary Kate Guest, are putting on a “Youth for Truth” Rally at the Planned Parenthood site from 1-3 p.m.
They’re counting on >>500http://tinyurl.com/3azgla
The “Youth for Truth” Rally will include:
* Music, praise and worship
* Teen speakers on fighting for life
* A talk by Yvonne Florczak-Seeman on her abortion experience at Planned Parenthood
* Free “Youth for Truth” T-shirts
We really need to bring out a good crowd Saturday. These high school and college kids are the ones Planned Parenthood’s targeting with their lies and propaganda.
Planned Parenthood is telling them that they are incapable of self-control, that every sexual desire must be indulged, that their parents are to ignored or even mocked, that the Church is irrelevant.
Every value that these fine young people hold dear — chastity, honesty, integrity, respect for their parents, faith in Jesus Christ — is under attack from Planned Parenthood. And what’s most outrageous, Planned Parenthood claims to be “serving” young people!
The “Youth for Truth” will be out there Saturday proclaiming that the young people of Aurora are capable of virtue, capable of responding to the demands of love — and they don’t appreciate
Planned Parenthood telling them they’re not.
I hope you’re as excited as I am about the “Youth
for Truth” Rally, and that you’ll do everything you can to bring out a big crowd. And don’t forget the free T-shirt for every high school or college student who participates.
Let’s support our youth!
Many spoke of how PP corrupts our youth.
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If your children are corrupted by having Planned Parenthood in your town, then you have totally failed as a parent. I would extend that to people who claim their children were corrupted by song lyrics or MTV.
I agree, Laura. People need to learn to take credit for their own bad parenting.
Laura: So if children are ever corrupted, is it always the parents fault?
If your children are corrupted by having Planned Parenthood in your town, then you have totally failed as a parent.
Youknow, I think you do have a point. You have failed as a parent if you didn’t teach your kids that they can’t trust Planned Parenthood, just as you’ve failed them if you didn’t teach them not to trust the ‘Help my look for my lost puppy” ploy so popular with kidnappers.
One more point, Laura — Doesnt’ the community have some responsibility to protect the children whose parents don’t realize how corrupt PP is? Are we supposed to just avert our gaze and say, “It’s not MY problem”?
Just because you’ve taught your kids how to swim doesn’t mean it’s okay to have unfenced swimming pools all over the neighborhood, does it?
If your children are corrupted by having Planned Parenthood in your town, then you have totally failed as a parent.
Youknow, I think you do have a point. You have failed as a parent if you didn’t teach your kids that they can’t trust Planned Parenthood, just as you’ve failed them if you didn’t teach them not to trust the ‘Help my look for my lost puppy” ploy so popular with kidnappers.
Posted by: Christina at August 29, 2007 5:49 PM
It’s quite dramatic and childish in my mind to compare a woman’s health facility to pedophiles trolling for tots.
One more point, Laura — Doesnt’ the community have some responsibility to protect the children whose parents don’t realize how corrupt PP is? Are we supposed to just avert our gaze and say, “It’s not MY problem”?
Just because you’ve taught your kids how to swim doesn’t mean it’s okay to have unfenced swimming pools all over the neighborhood, does it?
Posted by: Christina at August 29, 2007 5:51 PM
I grew up near a river. Was it the governments job to teach me to swim or fence the river off in case my parents lost track of me?
It’s your responsibility to keep your pants on, and keep a penis out of your vagina, if you don’t want children.
It’s pretty simple, really. Once you consent to sex, you have made a choice! That’s it!
The email I sent to Ms. Kristin Zambo (kzambo@scn1.com), the enthusiastic PP supporter who has been turning the Aurora Beacon News into a Planned Parenthood newsletter:
Dear Ms. Zambo,
Your coverage of the Planned Parenthood stealth clinic sounds like it’s taken virtually verbatim from Planned Parenthood press releases, to the point where I’m going to suggest to Eric Schiedler that he get copies of the press releases in question and compare them to your stories. You’ll note that I’m sending his organizaiton a cc of this email. I’m also sending copies to the editors you work for.
I realize that you did some independent research — to try to back PP’s claims that their stealth clinic is “needed” and “wanted” in Aurora. You did zero research that I can see to look into the concerns expressed by opponents of the facility.
You also forget that people know what you’re ommitting as well. Such as the fact that Jakubowski, the former abortionist for the city, was such a seedy, greedy quack that even the feminists wanted to see him shut down. A real “man bites dog” story that I notice you didn’t consider worth bringing up in your concise history of abortion in Aurora.
There’s also the fact that the city council meeting in question was packed with opponents of the stealth clinic, but you only quoted one of the facility’s two supporters at length.
You made abundantly clear your viewpoint that the opponents of the facilty are wasting everybody’s time, just a bunch of troublemakers who should shut up and go home:
“turning the usually staid meeting into a sometimes fiery exchange, shouting down one alderman and plowing through a three-minute speaking time rule.”
“124 people signed up to talk about the health center — an item not on the City Council’s agenda.”
“the 6:15 p.m. meeting dragged late into the night.”
“After the outburst”
You gave the impression that out-of-towners were trying to silence Aurora citizens:
“As Alderman Leroy Keith, 9th Ward, called for comments to be cut off at 9 p.m. and allow Aurora residents first crack at speaking, he was met with yells of “No! No!” through the crowd.”
The reports I’ve read from people who attended were that the opponents of the facility were very much in favor of allowing Aurora residents to speak first. They were only opposed to the cut-off time.
And you made it plain that you see no problem with how PP slid their plans in under the radar:
“The center was approved by the council’s Planning and Development Committee last November and did not require full City Council approval.” With no mention of the false statements made on applications.
The world is watching you, Ms. Zambo, and you’re not putting on a very credible act.
Christina Dunigan
I cc’d Families Against Planned Parenthood (info@familiesagainstplannedparenthood.org), Managing Editor Denise Crosby (dcrosby@scn1.com), Associate Editor John Russell (,jrussell@scn1.com), News Editor Tom Johnson (tjohnson@scn1.com), and Content Specialist Joseph DeRosier (jderosier@scn1.com)
Sally, they’re not the pedophiles, no. But they provide the services to facilitate the abuse. That makes them participants as far as I’m concerned.
Though you may think that as long as any pregnancies are either avoided or aborted, it’s okay for men to rape underage girls.
Anon, Planned Parenthood isn’t a naturally occuring phenomenon. It’s a human evil. We’d be remiss as parents, as neighbors, as citizens to simply turn a blind eye.
Anon is Sally….pretty sure
It’s your responsibility to keep your pants on, and keep a penis out of your vagina, if you don’t want children.
Posted by: Heather at August 29, 2007 6:44 PM
That’s nice. I may have commited suicide if you had told me such after being raped.
It was an incredible night at the Aurora city council meeting, with all kinds of people speaking from personal experience (women who had abortions, almost had abortions, placed babies for adoption, people who were adopted) and professional insight (an OB/GYN who has treated many botched abortions, a nursing student who witnessed an abortion, abstinence educators) and all manner of facts about Planned Parenthood’s money-making industry, faulty condoms, enabling child predators, Margaret Sanger’s eugenicist agenda, targeting African-Americans (a moving talk by the descendant of a slave woman forced to have sex with her “master” and bear his children) and on and on. Truly amazing.
Someone played excerpts from LDI’s expose into PP’s deliberate avoidance of statutory rape reporting laws. Others presented evidence and legal reasoning to call for an investigation into fraud in the permit application process. Young parents expressed dismay after recently moving to the neighborhood, wanting to raise their children in an environment respecting life and love – raising sons to stand up for truth and daughters to recognize their bodies as specially gifted to bring new life to the world – being undermined by PP’s agenda (a book of their propaganda targeting young people was passed around – after being checked out from the children’s department of the Aurora public library). One man simply said a prayer and everyone knelt and prayed with him. Others choked up in tears.
124 people registered to speak; not all made it till the end of the meeting at 1:30am, but of all the speakers only two were pro-abortion. It was an amazing outpouring of dedication, experience, knowledge, passion, and bravery. What a night!
That’s not what I meant. 4000 abortions a day? Are these all from rape? I think not! The only thing that the abortion clinic does, is cover the tracks of the incest or rape perpetrator. It doesn’t benefit women!
Anon is Sally….pretty sure
Posted by: Heather at August 29, 2007 6:52 PM
Sometimes. My new Mac doesn’t always auto populate on this site for some reason or another. I don’t seem to be the only Anon around.
How about the girl who is continuously returned to an abusive environment, following abortion? That’s the roll of the abortion clinic. Now there’s a candidate for suicide!
It’s pretty simple, really. Once you consent to sex, you have made a choice! That’s it!
Posted by: Heather at August 29, 2007 6:46 PM
That’s what?
A choice.
Sally, they’re not the pedophiles, no. But they provide the services to facilitate the abuse. That makes them participants as far as I’m concerned.
Though you may think that as long as any pregnancies are either avoided or aborted, it’s okay for men to rape underage girls.
Posted by: Christina at August 29, 2007 6:48 PM
I find your thinking to be warped. I grew up in Northern Illinois with freaks trolling past children waiking home from school, offering ‘rides’ home. When I was 10 the paperboy went missing. He was found hung from a barn rafter with his own penis shoved in his mouth. That’s the way it was back in the late 60s. No doubt before you were born.
You know nothing about pedophiles and demonizing PP certainly doesn’t address pedophila. Annoy the RCC who created the pedophile ‘retreat’ in my back yard. PP serves a positive purpose even if you priviledged and incredibly naive young un’s can’t see it.
As far as teens or children being corrupted by Planned Parenthood, and the comment that if they are able to do that, then the parents have failed in bringing up their children.
As much as good parents try to influence their children, they are many other influences in their lives:
Peers
The news and entertainment media
The millions of websites, good and evil
The noise that is sold as “music”
The Schools they attend
And the list can go on.
As children get older they are exposed to more and more influential factors outside the home. It is impossible for parents to protect them from every outside influence short of locking them inside the house without any TV, radio, internet, magazines, etc.
The influence of the educational system cannot be underestimated. Especially when young people go to college, they open their minds to their teachers, who they think have great wisdom. College students think they have ‘arrived’ when they go to college, and that they are now going to really become educated and that their parents are ‘old-fashioned’. Come on, most of us have probably gone through that phase. (But have we outgrown it and come to see the truth??)
But Planned parenthood has millions and millions of dollars by which they package and promote their products (dangerous chemicals and abortions that kill babies and hurt women for life, even killing some women) under the slick guise of ‘health care’ or ‘reproductive services’. They have an evil website for teens that promotes all manner of promiscuity and perverted sexual behaviors among teens. The only thing PP actually reproduces is repeat customers.
What will they think of promoting next? Probably adults molesting children. They are already on record (and recorded phone calls) for purposefully ignoring and not reporting state-mandated reporting of sexual abuse of minor girls by adult males.
How much more evidence does anyone need to see that PP is an evil organization that only promotes promiscuous sex particularly to young women and teenage girls so they can keep selling them more contraceptives, abortions and treatments for venereal diseases, which are continually being transmitted from person to person through promiscuous sexual contact.
How about the girl who is continuously returned to an abusive environment, following abortion? That’s the roll of the abortion clinic. Now there’s a candidate for suicide!
So……….you are working on funding free mental health clinics for victims of abuse? Of course you are all over legislation that actually puts weight into legal recourse against abusers.
No you aren’t.
You are the sum of your cheap and meaningless words used to worship the great and all knowing conceptus.
A choice.
Posted by: Heather at August 29, 2007 7:14 PM
Uh huh. Consenting to have sex is much nicer than being forced to have sex. Did you have a point?
Sally,
Pedophilia is evil. And so is abortion.
PP is an evil organization with the purpose of exterminating the unborn children of African Americans, Hispanics, and many other groups of peoples. Margaret Sanger was a racist and a eugenicist. This is well-documented.
PP covers up for pedophiles. This is also well-documented.
Sally,
I think you’re full of balony. I don’t trust you one bit.
Jill,
I’ve been thinking about how the media has been saying that there is more support for the clinic than there really is, and i’ve decided that it may work in our favor. Here is why, every abortion supporter may be thinking that there are more than enough people doing the work for them and they will be less likely to do anything.
I’ve been saying for a while now, the MSM is not on our side. 90 % of them are self described democrats from a recent poll, which amost always means pro-abort.
I don
As for kids/teens being influenced by things like the media, music, etc. This would not be a problem if parents monitored what there kids/teens were watching, listening to etc. A lot of public school kids/teens go to church on a regular basis and are active in their youth groups etc.
To the Pro-Choice:
My heart goes out to every girl or woman who has ever been the victim of any sexual assault. I will not begin to pretend that I understand or can begin to understand the emotional tear they have in their life.
While I was never sexually abused, I was abused. My father put a flammable liquid on my arm and light it on fire after I touched his lighter. I guess he was teaching me that I shouldn’t play with fire. I still have the scars to this day.
This was one of many instances where I experienced abuse. Not once did I ever think of suicide. Was I depressed? YOU BET. Was I a sad kid? Absolutely. While I know some of you will say that having your arm light on fire as a kid, or being punched, or whatever is not as “bad” as being raped, I say that abuse is abuse. Regardless if it’s emotional, mental, or physical. It’s wrong.
Regardless, the fact that you are using rape as the main reason for abortions is flawed. Please provide statistics that show that rape is the primary reason for abortions. My uneducated guess would be that you can’t. Sadly, abortions are being used as a contraceptive. It allows a woman to be promiscuous without having to worry about the consequences of her actions. I think that is where I have a huge problem.
Sexual assault aside, if you guys believe that every child should be a wanted child, then use the contraceptives out there if you don’t want to be pregnant.
Also, if what PP does for the community is meant to “help”, then why the need for the smoke and mirrors? If you think that the Aurora, and DuPage county community are really wanting this, then why so little Pro-Choice support?
You see, PP is smart. They know that people don’t want destroyed babies in their backyard. They know that they don’t want to shop next to a place that is killing innocent babies that should have a choice to live. That is why they deceived the council, deceived the community, and why they will deceive us all again if they need to.
If you know someone is deceptive, do you trust them openly after that? What is to stop PP from lieing or committing future fraud if they get their permit to operate? For something that is supposed to be so righteous and helping, they sure went to a lot of work to hide it.
Again, my prayers go out to everyone who is abused. It’s a sad world we live in. But that doesn’t give anyone the right kill. I was abused, horribly. Does that give me the right to kill? No.
May God watch over this city, town, county, state and country. He is my savior and king and I live for him daily. All praise and honor belong to him.
God Bless,
Oh Ben,
That story just broke my heart. You are right, abuse is abuse. And how wonderful that you have found our Lord. What a testament to Him and you!
God Bless Ben, and welcome to our site!
Sally, the fact that some pedophiles kill their victims doesn’t mitigate the evil of those who keep their victims alive ro repeated abuse. Unless you think, “Well, at least he didn’t hang her from a rafter, so he didn’t really do any harm” is an excuse.
Ben wrote:
“Sexual assault aside, if you guys believe that every child should be a wanted child, then use the contraceptives out there if you don’t want to be pregnant.”
This would seem logical on a purely human basis. However, the gift of sexuality and reproduction, or better, procreation, is a divine gift by which we participate in the creation by God of a new human person, composed of body and soul. God intended this incredible gift to take place in the sacred union of a man and woman joined together in holy matrimony or marriage, which is a Sacrament. Even if you are not Catholic or Orthodox, if you are a baptised Christian, and are married for the first time to another baptised person, barring any impediments, you are sacramentally joined to your spouse.
The Bible teaches: “What God has joined together, let no man put asunder.”
“No man” includes, of course, the husband and wife themselves.
What God has joined together is sacred. It is the union of a man and a woman. The purpose of the the conjugal act in marriage is two-fold: the union of the husband and the wife, -and, the procreation of children. This is the expression of the complete self-giving love of the spouses to each other. This two-fold purpose cannot be separated lawfully, under God’s eyes. That is not to say that every conjugal act has to result in the conception of a child. But, every conjugal act of a husband and wife must be open to the transmission of life. This is not say that a married couple may not use licit, normal and NATURAL means of spacing out their children, if there are serious reasons for doing so. What I am referring to is also known as Natural Family Planning or “NFP”. There are at least two very scientific means of practicing NFP that I am aware of: the Billings Method and the sympto-thermal method.
Now I realize that many Christians do not think that the use of artificial contraceptives is in any way wrong. However, if we look at marriage and the marital act in the light of Natural Law with an open mind, and enlightened by Divine Revelation, God’s Holy Word, we can see that marriage is: ordained by God for the unity of a man and woman; that this union is not to be separated by any person; that the purpose of the conjugal act has as its purpose, the conception of a new human being; on the level of human love, the conjugal act unites the spouses physically, emotionally, and on the spiritual level in unites them spiritually.
I cannot emphasize enough that marriage and the marital act is sacred in the eyes of God.
So what’s wrong with using artificial contraceptives? Why is it wrong?
It is wrong because it completely separates the two purposes of the marital act: unity of the spouses and procreation.
But how does it separate these two purposes?
Because in the marital act, the husband and the wife in expressing their love for each other, do so in a language that involves their bodies, minds and spirits, and they give themselves to each other totally and completely, at least, that is what is implicit in the conjugal act. It is, of course, very pleasurable, because God designed it that way. But beyond the pure physicality of the conjugal act, as I have pointed out, the conjugal act is so much more. In giving themselves to each other, the husband and the wife are giving LIFE to each other. Each one holds within the seed of potential new life. Each spouse needs the other in order for a new life to begin. If in God’s providence a new life does begin, this is the fruit of their union. If it does not take place as the result of any given conjugal act, that is Divine Providence as well. But to directly frustrate the life-giving or procreative aspect of the conjugal act is in essence to say to the other spouse: “I only love you but, I don’t give myself to you completely. I enjoy the pleasure of this act, but I don’t want it to be fruitful. I hold back the life-giving part of myself.”
I know, you may still be saying, “What is wrong with that way of thinking?”
To be perfectly clear, as I said, the purpose of the marital act has two purposes: unity and procreation. If we separate them, we are not being true to the vows of marriage and the God-given purpose of matrimony. We are ‘putting asunder what God has joined together.’ In the Bible, contraception was severely condemned. Onan withdrew himself from his wife and spilled his seed on the ground, and God caused his death. (Genesis 38:8-10)
As I also said, not every conjugal act has to result in the conception of a child. Obviously, this can only take place during a few days of the wife’s fertility cycle. That is where NFP can be a great help, if, for serious reasons, a couple needs to space out their children. NFP can and has been used very successfully to conceive children, since it can determine with good accuracy when ovulation occurs.
In the Bible and throughout all of human history in fact, the procreation of children was considered a great blessing. A woman who could not have children (or, as we know from modern science, it could also be due to the husband’s infertility) was considered in a way ‘cursed’ or at least, not having received the blessing of God, children.
Contraception, the deliberate interference with marital intercourse in order to prevent conception, is also known as Neo-Malthusianism, after the English sociologist, Malthus (1766-1834) who promoted the idea of poplulation control. Population control was to be achieved through contraception. This idea was promulgated and taken up by none other than the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger herself. In fact the original name of Planned Parenthood was the Birth Control League. In the early 20th century most people and every major Christian denomination condemned birth control as sinful. But in 1930 the Episcopal Church at the Lambeth Conference broke with 1,900 years of Christian tradition and said artificial birth control was okay. This began the acceptance among Protestant churches the practice of artificial birth control.
If you believe in artificial birth control, you believe in what Margaret Sanger worked her whole life to promote: eugenics or the control of the procreation of certain groups of peoples, through contraception and abortion. And ABORTION is another means of birth control. Just look at the history of the past 70 or 80 years of the use of artificial contraception. It has resulted in the acceptance of all manner of birth control or the separation of the marital act and the conception of children. It has resulted in the acceptance and wide-spread practice and legalization of ABORTION. It has resulted in very high divorce rates (50% or more per marriage). It has opened the flood gates to all manner of sexual promiscuity among children and adults. It has resulted in the wide-spread acceptance and increase of homosexuality and all manners of perverted behaviors. And it has resulted in the deaths of millions of unborn children.
Planned Parenthood, or Planned Barrenhood as I like to call it, has promoted birth control through contraception and abortion to everyone, but they continue to particularly and strategically target certain groups not only in the USA, but in all parts of the world, especially the Third World. They target the poor, the underdeveloped nations, people of ‘color’, black people, Hispanic people, Asian people. This coincides exactly with the racist ideas of Margaret Sanger. If you haven’t read up on her, you really need to do that.
These are just some of the main arguments against the use of artificial contraception. I realize that you may not be able to understand or accept all of this. But at least consider the fact that if you believe in contraception, and/or practice or advocate its use, then you are promoting what Planned Parenthood and its founder Margaret Sanger promote as their number one program: contraception and the stopping of bringing children into this world. It is a Pandora’s box. I haven’t even gone into the abortifacient aspects of virtually all chemical contraceptives. Even if you can’t accept that the use of contraceptives is sinful, at least don’t use them because you may be killing your own child without even knowing it. But at least consider the other reasons I have outlined above, and if you would like to know more about why it is wrong, may I suggest that you get a copy of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (as a starting point, paragraphs 2360-2400, but their are many other parts that deal with marriage). Also there is the letter of Pope Paul VI, Humanae Vitae, or “On Human Life”.
Thank you for reading.
A post-script to the above:
Ben wrote: “…if you guys believe that every child should be a wanted child…”
The statement “every child a wanted child” is one of the rallying cries of Planned Parenthood, NOW and all the pro-abort feminists out there. So just be careful of what you say and think. That little phrase is the one of the bases for all of their contraceptive, abortive and evil deeds.
Every child IS a wanted child: in God’s eyes, no child is a mistake, an accident or unwanted. If you don’t want the child, please give it up to adoption. Don’t ever say that a child is unwanted. If you don’t want a child, give it to me, I’ll adopt it or find a loving home for it.
. If you don’t want a child, give it to me, I’ll adopt it or find a loving home for it.
Paul, I second that!
Hey guys! Save a baby for me!!! I’ll take one too, ok two but that’s it, ok maybe three…LOL!