Lizzy: ‘Artificial birth control is unnatural and immoral.’
Jason: Hmm. That’s why I use natural birth control.
Lizzy: What is a natural birth control?
Jason: I just show up.
~ Celebrities Lizzy Caplan and Jason Alexander (pictured above), lampooning pro-life statements for This Is Personal campaign, via RH Reality Check, October 25. View video here.
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Lizzy who?
As usual, no effort is made to understand why Catholics teach that artificial birth control is immoral. Aside from the potential abortifacient effects of these chemicals and the harm they can cause to the body, Catholics believe that the use of artificial birth control is a sin against MARRIAGE. But it is far easier to ignorantly mock something you don’t understand rather than looking up the appropriate passage in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Ditto, Grace:
Lizzy WHO?
I think the working definition of bigotry is being down on something you’re not up on; seems to fit this to a T.
I admit I was disappointed with Romney in the 2nd presidential debate when this topic was brought up; he simply said he wasn’t against b.c.; I thought he missed a golden opportunity to make pocket change of Obummer and educate all watching women by simply asking the pervert in chief why it was so important to him to force taxpayers to provide women with class one carcinogens.
And not completely off topic, interesting bioethical commentary in the newest NCIS episode, “God Complex” on cbs.com.
Ok, Jason that was kind of, sort of funny. But overall message is dumb.
Oops! Criminal Minds, not NCIS…I’m a fan of both shows, got it mixed up. It’s definitely Criminal Minds. Speaking of NCIS, though, I understand that Mark Harmon is Republican…and think that he has a much bigger following than either of the two clowns in this vid.
The other celebrities on this campaign are: Aisha Tyler, Tig Notaro, Kali Hawk, Annabeth Gish, Jessica St. Claire, Erin Foley, Andrea Savage. Never really heard of any of them.
@jtm — I love Criminal Minds, but one of the characters on there did say she had an abortion at fifteen and it “saved her life.” Whatever.
Yeesh. I just saw the smarmy video. How hard would it be to make a video ridiculing them for their bizarre belief that a baby magically appears at the end of the birth canal?
@phillymiss,
Now that you mention it, I think I do recall SSA Prentiss saying that, but don’t recall which episode it was. I remember wondering at the time how she could be so certain that she would have died without the abortion; just because she was one of the luckier survivors doesn’t mean that she’d have come off worse to have the child.
Thanks for the list of others involved in this scampaign – and make that Mark Harmon has a much bigger following than all these clowns put together! The only one I’d heard of before reading this was Jason.
I wonder if Lizzy is trying to mock Lila Rose. Kind of looks like it to me. Either way, nothing unexpected from the celebrity crowd.
I think more think more than anything we need to look at what sexual activity actually is. This where people tend to misunderstand the Catholic Church in particular.
As the Catholic Church teaches, sexual activity has two MAIN purposes:
1. the reaffirmation of the marriage vows (this is, saying with the body what the couple said at the wedding ceremony).
2. Being open to the POSSIBLITY of children (since not every sexual encounter brings about children–even if done during the most fertile of a woman’s cycle).
The Catholic Church also views sexually activity as sacred to marriage. Part of the problems I see is when we try to separate sex from its main purposes to be something we want to be, rather than something it is.
People think the RCC is strigent and narrow minded, when in fact when you dive into the teachings on sex and marraige, the RCC has an incredibly beautiful take on the whole thing.
It’s the whole two become one. When we take that out, we fall down a slope of selfish love, rather than self-LESS love.
I know not everyone agrees with me, but I felt it was important to state these things. The RCC gets so much flak for so many things, that people don’t bother to see if the RCC gets anything right and it actually does.
I encourage everyone to check it out–Christopher West has some great resources to help understand Pope John Paul II’s THE THEOLOGY OF THE BODY and Jason Evert and his wife, Crystalina have a lot to say on chastity and the nature of sexuality/sexual activity from the Church’s perspective. (Just to name a couple of resources off the top of my head).
We need to put more of a respectful regard on sexuality and sexual activity and stop treating it like a casual affair.
Christopher West — http://www.christopherwest.com
Jason & Crystalina Evert — http://www.chastity.com/node/442
@jtm — I don’t think Prentiss was saying that she would have literally died if she hadn’t had that abortion, she meant that it would have ruined her life — in other words, she would have been “punished with a baby.”
” I had a close friend who worked in the sex industry. She was not a prostitute and did not perform “normal” sex. But the fact is that the people who patronized her were satisfied by the services. I say “people” because about 7-10% of her clients were women. She explained, “It is so unusually high because of my outgoing personality.”
Could we persuade people to think of “sex” in terms of things that lead to satisfaction?
That one sex act could be STRONGLY DE-EMPHASIZED so that females unwilling to carry to term don’t do that one.
I had a boyfriend for 6 years without that one. ”
Your friend probably worked in fetishes then, I had a couple sex industry friends who did that. Never had sex for money, but provided fetishes. The thing is Denise, is that fetishes are not the “norm”. Most straight people are going to normally want the “kind of sex act that leads to pregnancy”. It’s just the way we are made, evolution wants more progeny, so humans want “normal” sex. It’s just the way it works. We can do all sorts of things to reduce unplanned pregnancy, I do like your ideas about chaperoned dating for young people. When my kids are old enough to date and are still in my house I might even consider it. But yeah, people are still going to screw and unplanned pregnancies are still going to happen. We need to create a culture that puts out the message that a fetus is never optional, it is its own life and needs to be protected like any other.
Ok.
When Denise Noe goes on one of her sexually explicit rants I would appreciate an email. So I can delete them.
Could we do that instead of joining in her obsession?
Thank you.
Personally, I find her sexually explicit rants the least disturbing of her rants.
Sorry Carla, I won’t do it again.
I do agree JDC.
I was not being sexually explicit. The fact of the matter is that if we want to decrease abortions, we have got to persuade fertile women who are not willing to have children to abstain from the particular sex act that can lead to pregnancy.
Those who want to get pregnant will have that act without aborting. Those who are willing to carry to term can have that act without aborting. Those who are sterile can have that act without aborting.
But those who fertile but are not willing to carry to term and give birth must be persuaded to NOT engage in that form of sex.
What is “explicit” or off the wall about this obvious assertion?
Denise Noe,
DO NOT pretend that you do not post all kinds of sexually explicit comments about your own sex life…….etc. etc. etc.
THAT is what I am talking about.
I will delete whatever I think crosses that line. And you know it.
JDC,
I hear ya.
Denise,
Your mistake is that you see abortion the same way the promoters and toleraters do. This is not about sex. It’s about whether or not it’s right to kill your innocent child.
Thank you Hans.
Catholics know that birth control is immoral because the point of sex is to make babies. Although that doesn’t agree with society’s standards today, it’s something that Catholics still and always will practice, and there’s nothing wrong with that. As far as abortion goes, and even in some cases of contraceptives, it’s not healthy to do it. As far as birth control goes, it makes it very difficult in some cases to have babies down the road and you have an increased chance of getting breast and cervical cancer down the road.
as far as abortions go, they are wrong and make no sense at all. 3 of the 4 main methods used in the USA the baby can feel pain. Also, over 95% of the time the mother expiriences trauma after- depression, PTST, and 7% of the time the women can become suicidal, even in situations of rape and incest. The abortions that take place as a result of rape or incest is about 1.2%, and with health problem added to that it’s less than 3%, which in no way shape or form justifies the 90-odd percent that kill their child just because they don’t want him or her, and 79% of the USA’s population disagrees with the current abortion policy.
I personally feel like the main reason why abortions are so high is because it’s promoted the most, as an actual profit comes from making abortions that’s not equivalent to the many other options a women may have. Feel free to disagree, but it’s nobodies right to judge or mock someone’s religious views, or respect for the value of life.
Jason Alexander’s career has not been on an upward trajectory.