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On This Page: Promises associated with contraception use; Actual societal results; Solutions.
PROMISES (?)
WE WERE TOLD THAT CONTRACEPTION WOULD:
Give us Worry Free
Sex without consequences
Stabilize
Marriages through increased control over family planning
Lower the Divorce
Rate
Prevent Child
Abuse
Reduce Poverty
through Population Control
Prevent Abortion
Protect against
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
REALITY CHECK
THE PILL AND PROMISCUITY:
Dr. Robert Kirstner, co-developer of the Pill: “For years I thought the pill would not lead to promiscuity but I’ve change my mind. I think it probably has.” (“In Brief: Harvard, Mass." ALL About Issues, June 1981, p.5)
Dr. Min-Chueh Chang, co-developer of the Pill: “(Young people) indulge in too much sexual activity…I personally feel the pill has spoiled people. It’s made them more permissive.” ("In Brief: Harvard, Mass." ALL About Issues, Aug 1981, p.6)
CONTRACEPTION-ABORTION CONNECTION:
Malcolm Potts, former Medical Director of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, said in 1973: “As people turn to contraception, there will be a rise, not a fall, in the abortion rate. No society has controlled its fertility without recourse to a significant number of abortions. In fact, abortion is often the starting place in the control of fertility.” (Andrew Scholberg, Abortionists and Planned Parenthood; Familiar Bedfellows. International Review of Natural Family Planning, Winter 1980, p. 298)
Christopher Tietze, who has been called the world's most experienced abortion statistician: " A high correlation between abortion experience and contraceptive experience can be expected in populations in which contraception and abortion are available…. women who have practiced contraception are more likely to have had abortions than those who have not practiced contraception; and women who have had abortions are more likely to have been contraceptors than women without a history of abortion." (“Abortion Readings and Research," Toronto: Butterworth and Co., 1981, pp. 54 - 60).
Christopher Tietze: “The safest regimen of control for the unmarried and for married child spacers is the use of traditional contraceptive methods backed up by abortion; but if this regimen is commenced early in the child bearing years, it is likely to involve several abortions in the course of her reproductive career for each women who chooses it." (Same source as above)
Planned Parenthood vs. Casey, Supreme Court Decision that confirmed Roe vs. Wade: "In some critical respects abortion is of the same character as the decision to use contraception...for two decades of economic and social developments, people have organized intimate relationships and made choices that define their views of themselves and their places in society, in reliance on the availability of abortion in the event that contraception should fail." ("The Connection Between Contraception and Abortion" by Janet Smith, Distributed by One More Soul, Dayton, OH)
CONTRACEPTION-ABORTION-SEX EDUCATION CONNECTION:
Alan Guttmacher, after whom the research arm of Planned Parenthood is named, said in 1973: The only avenue the International Planned Federation and its allies could travel to win the battle for abortion on demand is through sex education.” (Humanity Magazine, Aug/Sep 1979, p. 11).
DID YOU KNOW THAT SINCE THE LEGALIZATION OF CONTRACEPTION (1965 &1972):
Divorce Rate has Doubled
Cohabitation is
now an acceptable norm
75% Divorce Rate
for those who cohabit before marrying
Increase in Single
Parent Homes with subsequent Increase in Poverty in those homes
Marital Infidelity
is a greater temptation
Sexual
Transgressions of many kinds now Abound
Depression
Rate in Teens Who Are Sexually Active
Increase in Child
abuse
All forms of
Contraception Fail (including sterilization)
Abortion was
Legalized after Contraception was Legalized
So far, in all
Countries Where Contraception is Legalized, the Legalization of Abortion Follows
Most Abortions
(60%) are Sought due to Contraception Failure
1.3 million
Conventional Abortions yearly in the United States
Some
Contraceptives can Cause Abortions (the Pill ,the
Morning After Pill,
the Shot, the Patch, the IUD, the Vaginal Ring)
The Population
Problem of Today is Not Enough Youth to support increasing numbers of elderly:
(Fertility Rates 2005 - Replacement Rate =2.5 per woman: Hungary 1.11,
Greece 1.11, Bulgaria 1.10, Belarus 1.10, Lithuania 1.10, Russia 1.05, Bosnia
1.05, Slovenia 1.02, Ukraine 1.00, Spain .95, Latvia .95, Armenia .70, Africa
4.7, Asia 2.3, South America 2, North America 2.1, Caribbean, 2.4)
Food Availability: "There appear to be no insurmountable resource
and technology constraints at the global level that would stand in the way of
increasing world food supplies by as much as required by the growth of
effective demand." And, "...global food production has evolved to a
stage where sufficient food is produced to meet the needs of every person on the
planet." ("Handbook on Population," Sassone, 1998, par. 203).
Land Availability: At present, only half of the tillable land in
the world is being used by farmers. And the expected use of land for
meeting expanding urban needs is predicted to be less than 2% of the world's
land. It is "not likely to seriously diminish the supply of land for
agricultural production,"
(according to Paul Waggoner in his
writings
for the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology in 1994.)
Some Forms of
Contraception Cause Breast Cancer
We Have a Sexually
Transmitted Disease (STD) Epidemic:
15 Million New STD
Cases reported Yearly in the U.S.
3 Million STD
Cases Among Teens reported Yearly in the U.S.
The AIDS Virus can
Pass Through a Condom
Many STD's are transmitted by skin-to-skin contact, regardless of condom usage
“I felt like an ‘it’ the moment I got my tubes
tied,
and relations with my husband have been
distasteful ever since.” Wife
“It made me selfish.” Husband After
Wife Went on the Pill
“Sex became the focus of our relationship,
and the more I engaged in it, the less
satisfying it was.” Husband After Wife Went on the Pill
“Our marriage began to noticeably deteriorate
after he got his vasectomy.” Wife
“The doctor didn’t tell us that some
contraceptives could abort our children.”
Upset Husband
referring to the Pill, the Shot, the IUD, the Patch and the Vaginal Insert
“I don’t tell them because they don’t ask to
know.” Family Nurse Practitioner when asked,
“Why don’t you
tell the young girls that the Shot can cause early stage abortions?”
“At school they teach us how to use birth
control, so then they all go out and try it.” High School Senior
“I conceived my second child while on the Pill
and my third child while on the Shot.”
Young mother who got pregnant three times while single
“We got divorced because she was unfaithful,
and contraception helped her to be.” Divorced Young Man
“The moment I went on the pill, everything
changed. Something inside of me shut down.” Wife
“Where do you find them?”
Despairing
Teen Girl looking for a young man who will love her enough to marry her
“I wish I hadn’t.” Teen Girl of
having Lost her Virginity
“It’s for physical pleasure; it’s not about love
or commitment.”
Male College Student when asked, “Why do men have sex before marriage?”
“The pain of being alone is so great that
they don’t care what someone does to them in a relationship in order
not to be alone.” Single Young Woman speaking of sexually active teens from broken families,
who was once one herself
Get Free of the
Contraceptive Mentality.
Recognize that our
Sexuality is a Precious Gift.
Seek to Know that our Dignity rests in being Made in the Image of God.
Recognize that,
with God’s Help, we can keep our Passions in Check.
See the Value in
Saving Ourselves Until Marriage for that Special Someone to whom we desire
to give ourselves totally for the Rest of our Lives.
Dress Modestly to
help ourselves and others Reach this Goal.
Use Natural Family
Planning (NFP) Inside of marriage and Stay Chaste Before Marriage.
NFP has a 99%
effective rate, when needed, in avoiding or planning pregnancy, has no side
effects, and a divorce rate of 3% for those who practice it.
Chastity Before
Marriage results in a significantly Lower Divorce Rate.
There are alternatives to
contraception-controlled health problems.
Consult : Fertility, Cycles & Nutrition
by Marilyn Shannon,
Distributed by Couple to Couple League, P.O. Box 111184, Cincinnati, OH
45211-1184,(513)471-2000, ccli@ccli.org
Contraceptives can be disposed of and removed.
Successful
family planning can be achieved without contraceptives,
through Natural
Family Planning (NFP - 99% successful when practiced).
Call Franciscan Skemp Hospital, La Crosse, WI,
to learn NFP (608)785-0940
Nationwide: Call or contact Couple to Couple League, Cincinnati, OH
(513)471-2000 or ccli@ccli.org
Saving yourself for your spouse (chastity) is possible.
With God’s help and good friends, your new way of life can begin today.
“… with God all things are possible.” Mt 19:26
Turn to Christ for help
today.