Not a coincidence

[fish0251]

This article describes a speech given this summer by a US diplomat to the UN Population Fund Executive Board.  It is a striking example of the insight that Pope Paul VI was given when writing Humanae Vitae in 1968:

Upright men can even better convince themselves of the solid grounds on which the teaching of the Church in this field is based, if

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[tonapah]

I'm confused. So is the point that birth control is wrong because if it's allowed, then the government could force people to use it?

[fish0251]

No. The point is that by abandoning God's design for marriage and sex in a seemingly small way by approving of artificial birth control, a society is tempted to fall into worse and worse intrusions into the intimacy of family life. The boundary build into the nature of man has been crossed, so who else is there to draw a line? Pope Paul VI speculated on what could happen in such a society, and he was right.

Read the whole encyclical for why contraception is wrong in the first place (only 10 pages).

[tonapah]

But just because a line isn't drawn at the most conservative end doesn't mean that it can't or won't be drawn at all. That doesn't make any sense. That's like saying that atheists won't have any sense of morality just because they don't have a God-given one. It doesn't work that way. In terms of birth control, a pro-choice society that respects all people's rights to make their own reproductive choices both has lines drawn and avoids the kind of forced abortion that the article you linked pointed to.