A friend of mine is Catholic and she won't take birth control. The argument is that it keeps babies from being born and therefore is not the way God intended.
I personally don't take birth control because it turned me into a crazy person... too many hormones for my little body.
Abortion and birth control are two completely different things. I am not against birth control because its the same as using a condom almost.
I found this article on about.com that brushes the surface:
http://atheism.about.com/od/abortioncont...nBirth.htm
I don't think that there are a whole lot of arguments against it that don't relate to religion though. The only others I can think of is personal comfort. I've also heard that it is harder for a woman to conceive after she has taken birth control for a while, so that could be a reason not to as well. Isn't there some sort of stroke risk if you are a smoker as well?
That's all I have. But its been a while since I've needed any of that... I don't do babies, had two, that's enough for me.
I'll have a go at this one.
There are some forms of birth control, such as the IUD, that don't prevent conception, but rather prevent implantation of the fertilized egg in the uterus. This is the only type of situation where birth control and abortion overlap, AFAIK.
How about natural miscarriage? I see this as god ordering an abortion. It's remarkably common, though it often takes having a miscarriage to find this out yourself. I think the fact of common miscarriage argues effectively against the evil of birth control that aborts a fertilized egg.
Then there is the radical feminist view that people (including the Pope) are against birth control because they want to keep women down, powerless over their own reproduction. Keep 'em barefoot and pregnant, as it were.
There's also the rather mean assertion that Catholics want more Catholics, so the best way to maximize that number is to forbid birth control.
There is, of course, no form of 100% guaranteed birth control. Even the pill, with its many evils, including increased stroke risk, especially for smokers, is only, say, 99.9% effective. Any math geek can tell you that means SOMEBODY is going to take the pill and still get pregnant.
After I had my baby, and had the hugest reality check possible, I basically turned to abstinence, the only real way to avoid pregnancy with certainty.
Natural birth control has worked well for my sister, but she's quite obsessive about it. Theoretically, you have to ovulate before getting pregnant and ovulation happens only in the middle of your cycle. Then how did my other sister get pregnant on her period???
Like I said, abstinence. Which is damn near impossible. But at least it's not objected to by any religion that I'm aware of. Then again, if part of the religion is to "obey" your husband, and sex is part of that, you're still screwed. (Pun intended.)
What's that old saying? "If men got pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament."
Science Digest mentioned latex plugs for Fallopian tubes.
Heck, one in one hundred million chance of pregnancy?
Right, but then if everyone starts applying such an attitude about intercourse (without necessarily using above-mentioned method), and everyone keeps wearing sex on their sleeve, will there be any meaning left for intercourse besides base carnal desire?
Yes I know the world population is a problem, but there has to be some value left in the very act which resulted in all of us being here, in the first place.
Unfortunately religion is the worst thing to ever happen to religion... meaning that as a christian I find my own religion and all religions really lacking. I believe in God and believe in the bible and am generally a "born-again" christian. But I don't agree with a lot of what "the church" thinks about a lot of things. Even as a young girl I always felt that there was a division between my own thoughts and feelings about God and what I was taught... imparticularly the anti-female undertone. I also think that non-christians have a view of christians as hypocritical when the very basis of christianity is "I did it wrong, I'm sorry" rather than "Look at me, I'm better than you!" But I think a good part of christianity presents that very same image, which makes a "real" christian difficult to see.
My two bits. Sorry to offend if offended.
of course Birth control doesn't have anything bad, but i'm agains't abortion unless the fetus come physicaly sick or represents a risk for the mother,i don't see another reason to interrupt a life, mainly because scientists now can get Mother-cells from the umbilical cord
You forget, birth control is one major reason for abortion.
Yo, Batman.
When I was 23 I was at a high school 5 year reunion. Some girl said she was trying to get my attention (I almost got a detention over the subject matter however). So it is very easy to simply not know what a woman is thinking.
And also, if she is acting strangely it does not mean necessarily she is interested in a romantic way
Summer between my first and second years of college some woman starts writing me. Later I realize she signed my birthday card that April but I didn't know what the name meant, just a first name, could have been anyone's in the campus Christian fellowship. By November she has genuine sympathy for how the dudes mistreated me and how the ladies did not treat me at all. Such an unusually extroverted sense of building a friendship with a potential new Christian (I did not understand what a Christian meant). I eventually did overreact and her boyfriend threatened my safety if she did not make me disappear. So I disappeared.
That leaves me the least bit confused today at 37 over what a woiman is thinking when she does acting extrovertedly. And perhaps still a slight bit short of confidence.
Try Groovy Druid's report on flirting and AS
http://www.wrongplanet.net/article297.html
Happy ending I might add, the boyfriend disappeared himself, too. And was promptly replaced by the nice guy who is her husband of 13 years today.
Joke: Play Turning Japanese by the Vapors
Turning Japanese, I'm Turning Japanese, I Don't Think So.....
My mother was the Swedish-Finnish-American equivalent of the Japanese education-crazy mother. I also have that in common. Intense academic self-discipline, which can keep me late at the office too.
No call girl for me. I couldn't get my money's worth, her heart is not in it
I don't want sex just for the fluid dynamics
I want some emotional security
I do try to get my hair washed at the barber shop and make sure it is a female that does the cutting. Nice barber shop in the Latino neighborhood.
I said the places was very simpaticas. Given that the adjective references only women, my intent was clear.
There is now, but if the population keeps on growing it will reach a level where there is no longer enough food sooner or later. In a worst-case scenario where population keeps doubling roughly every fifty years, there would be about 1 trillion people in only about 350 years. And food production will always have crises, for example from human-caused or natural climate change, which we would want a safety margin to get through without mass famine.