New WND column, “Anti-lifers force pro-lifers to address bigger issue”
My column today on WND.com, “Anti-lifers force pro-lifers to address bigger issue,” is about the fact that the component of the pro-life movement that has shied away from the contraception issue may be forced to address it due to the controversy anti-lifers have stirred about the morning-after-pill.
Groups opposing the MAP because it may stop a week-old embryo from attaching to the wall of the uterus, i.e., cause an abortion, should know that a MAP is merely a megadose of one birth control pill. In other words, they both may cause abortions.
It is not just abortion that kills children, exploits women and physically and emotionally damages women. Contraceptives do, too. In fact, they’re the root cause of abortion, because they establish the mindset of hate rather than love at the prospect of conceiving children through copulation.
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.
The link between contraception and abortion is undeniable. I’m not Catholic. Anyone in the movement discovers this at some point. The only people that deny it are those that have a vested interest in doing so.
Thanks for speaking the truth.
And this is where the religious divide in the pro-life movement comes in.
Catholics – at least those who are not Catholics-In-Name-Only (or CINOs) – are opposed to birth control as evil in itself.
Protestantism is not, at least among the so-called “mainstream” denominations, ever since the Anglican World Communion approved of it at the Lambeth Conference in the 1930’s (if memory serves me correctly).
Usually among pro-lifers on this issue, they don’t touch it because Protestants may see it as “creeping Papism” and may feel they’re betraying Luther and Calvin (if wrong, I’ll stand corrected). CINOs don’t touch it because they believe in so-called “free love”, and contracept as much as the rest of the country. Only Traditional Catholics and others of good will in other faith communities who stand with them oppose birth control on principle.
Until this issue is resolved with the pro-life movement, it will remain weak, sad to say.
Your article regarding the Morning After Pills struck a real nerve. Last week I ran into an old friend I have not seen in a couple of years. I was floored when my friend told me that her two beautiful daughters had both had children before finishing high school. Both girls were honor students. Both had so much going for them that the idea that they would have children out of wedlock was shocking.
My friend told me that their futures would have been assured if they had been able to get the morning after pill.
This is a Christian household. They were good people. Now, I don’t know what to think. If kids are not ready to take on the challenge of raising a family or forever wondering what a child that was aborted would be like, then don’t have sex until they are.
Somehow this country has determined that taking a pill will cure everything. I am sickened by it. Young women, teenagers, should never allow that potent hormone mixture in their bodies. They can die and some have. It is not like taking a Tylenol for a headache.
Your column today gets an enthusiastic OOH RAH! from this Marine. You’ve nailed it right on the head. It’s about morality, which doesn’t start after conception.
My husband forwarded your WND article regarding the immorality of contraception and its historical and moral link to abortion. We cannot thank you enough! We stopped using contraception eight years ago, and we have, thanks be to God, influenced several couples around us to do the same.
I truly believe that John Paul II’s Theology of the Body (and Christopher West’s brilliant presentations of it) will change the world one day, and usher us into the Culture of Life.
Thank you so very much for speaking the truth!
Leila (mother of six)
(This is a crosspost from the weekend question thread, but is appropriate here).
A link discussing the subject of the historic church position on contraception:
Why Did God Kill Onan? Luther, Calvin, Wesley, C.S. Lewis, & Others on Contraception:
http://socrates58.blogspot.com/2004_02_08_socrates58_archive.html#107637888088186961
You will also note that these protestant church fathers used very strong language, I don’t think it would be too far off to call it a form of sodomy. Which is part of the irony that many christians call for a dissolvable, sterile, selfish, for pleasure only “marriage”, but not for gays. I seem to have trouble following the reasoning.
The late 1800s Comstock laws banned pornography, abortion, and contraception, and it wasn’t even thought of that they were disconnected.
Pope Paul VI in humanae vitae explained the contraceptive mentality and what it would lead to (even if you aren’t a catholic it is worth a read, as is casti conubii “the chaste marriage” – written in 1930 in response to the anglicans saying it was ok – google for encyclicals or by title).
Somehow treating potential children like potential typhus or cholera doesn’t seem like a Christian attitude.