Are birth controls morally wrong?

Question

I'm Catholic. I have never talked about birth control with anyone or my family. I just want to get your opinion on this as I am very curious. No bias answers please just real ones. Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

No. What's morally wrong is having too many children that you cannot afford to properly take care of. Why would preventing pregnancy be morally wrong to you? I understand that in catholicism it is "wrong", but think about it logically. Many religious sects have that type of idea within their religion to perpetuate the growth of their sect. Mormons practiced polygamy. What better way to grow that sect than to have 50+ kids in one generation? Same idea applies with the irrational idea that birth control is wrong.



Times are a lot different now than they were before. Many families cannot live on a single income, causing the wife to work as well. It's unwise to constantly be pregnant when you cannot afford it. It does no one any good. Sweetie, you should talk to your doctor and start it when you need it. I just started BC 3 months ago in anticipation of my upcoming wedding. It is a wise, and responsible decision.



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@ latterviews - "Sex will have better meaning and enjoyment when you use it at the time you are really in need of it. What happens to us many times is that for the purpose of pleasure we try to force body for sex. Keeping away few days will give you better enjoyment later. When you practice sex with such sense, birth control is not a big issue."



- WTF? How is birth control not an issue when you practice sex with the idea that you only need to do it when "you are really in need of it"? What does that even mean?...in need of it? And how does that make it any less of a chance of not getting pregnant? Birth control has nothing to do with enjoying sex at random times. You can get pregnant any time. I'm sorry, but having sex with your spouse is a good thing and shouldn't have to be regulated. I'm fine if you want to say sex is only for marriage, but why on earth would I want to abstain once married?

Answer 2

Artificial birth control is morally wrong because it misuses the sexual act by removing the procreative aspect.



Sex is both procreative and unitive. It is meant to bring life into the world, and to unite a husband and wife as one flesh. Many people want to use sex for the pleasure it brings, but remove the life giving aspect. This degrades sex to less than God meant it to be.



Planning your family is necessary. The Church does not teach that we should have tons of children regardless of financial or psychological abilities. However, we should approach sex, not as a right, but as the sacred act it is.



If a couple needs to avoid having a child for good reason, they can avoid sex on the few fertile days of the month. Abstaining from sex does not alter the sex act. In fact, most couples abstain regularly...even those using artificial birth control.



The average married couple has sex twice a week, that's 8 times a month. A couple using Natural Family Planning, who needs to avoid pregnancy, and has sex every day they can, would have sex at twice that average, sixteen (or more) days a month.



Natural Family Planning, is 99% effective when followed properly. It is healthier and promotes discussion about sex and family within the marriage. It also allows for God to be a part of your marriage and your family.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6375261.stm



Hormonal birth control, such as the pill or IUD, can cause abortions. Women on these birth control devices, may get pregnant and not know it. The newly conceived baby cannot implant in the uterus and is flushed from it's mother's body. The mother never even knows that her baby was killed.



Ultimately, a couple is responsible to plan their family. Abstaining from sex is not the same as rendering the sex act artificially sterile. The Church has always taught that sex is a procreative act, by divine design and we have no right to change that.



http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/sexuality/se0002.html

http://www.ccli.org/

http://www.catholic.com/tracts/birth-control



ADDED: - it's obvious from some of the answers that people have been conditioned to believe that not using artificial birth control automatically means having lots kids. This is the mentality of society. No one considers abstinence and self-control as an option.

Answer 3

Throughout all of Christianity's history, this is something we have agreed on. Artificial birth control ("pulling out", condoms, the pill) is intrinsically evil as it cheapens sex, a sacred act between two married people.



This was only changed in the 1930's, when the first ever Christian church rejected this long held truth. After that, practically every Protestant church followed. Now Protestants who reject birth control are very rare, it is only us Catholics and Orthodox who still retain the ancient teachings of the Faith.







To the other answerers, if you are actually unable to feed a child, then he would have to be put up for adoption or help would have to be found, but honestly, in the US especially, people *can* afford children, many of them, it is only the numerous luxuries that we have that we won't be able to afford anymore.





There is a method you could use to "space" out your children effectively, it is called NFP and it is perfect for Catholics. It uses the woman's natural cycles to temporarily avoid pregnancy and to give more time in between children.







EDIT: "Surely, the other few million sperm, even when someone gets pregnant, that get wasted, are all sins, too"



You misunderstand completely. It is not a sin that the sperm are wasted due to natural process, but that someone would want to pervert the entire purpose of sex and avoid the gift of life altogether.

Answer 4

The responsible spacing of births is something the Catholic Church actually encourages. However, there are some methods of birth control that are unacceptable. Abortion, for example.



Supporters of "the pill" want to make sure you never read the fine print: The pill is an abortifacient. It kills babies. It doesn't get any more real than that.



The Church has a wealth of information available to you on the subject. It really is good stuff.

Answer 5

Artificial birth control is morally wrong for two reasons: (1) it is a form of partial rejection between the couple (I want your sex but not your fertility) during the act that is supposed to be 100% unifying and (2) it is a rejection of God's invitation to us to participate in His act of Creation through procreation - God designed sex with a dual purpose (bonding for the couple + procreation) and we cannot separate the two and reject one without sinning against God.



More details in "Theology of the Body."

Answer 6

I am eternally grateful for being Catholic. I have experienced our Lord thousands of times with countless miracles.

Natural timed birth control is moral and ok. But you can use reasoning to see artificial birth control is unnatural. Thus being unnatural it is contrary to nature and God's will for the process because it interrupts nature denying rejecting the natural effect of sex. What makes it morally wrong and rationalized evil and sin is that it rejects God and his will for his creation and gift of sex for marriage.

Its like dumping chemicals or oil into the ocean preventing life from forming. Is that ok too? You are simply a smaller ocean but with better content.

After all its only your body so what if chemicals destroy life a little as long as its makers make a profit from its lies against God's way of doing it.

Our Lord showed me Planned Parenthood has outdone Adolph Hitler in legal killings.

Do you want to be part of that so you can have sex anytime?

Answer 7

There is natural way of birth control, without using any artificial means. There is nothing wrong in adopting such means as it is the provision of Creator himself. Other ways are morally wrong, but better than abortion. Sex will have better meaning and enjoyment when you use it at the time you are really in need of it. What happens to us many times is that for the purpose of pleasure we try to force body for sex. Keeping away few days will give you better enjoyment later. I am not a sex expert but it my personal experience. When you practice sex with such sense, birth control is not a big issue.

Answer 8

In the REAL world responsible birth control is still too rare.

Morality has NOTHING to do with Birth Control.

It's all to do with being responsible.



If you're old enough to play here you should already have learned these things.

I don't blame you - I blame the USian education 'system'.



A girl cannot be too young to know how NOT to have babies.

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Answer 9

I was raised a Catholic...and I learned about their birth control methods...abstinence. Sex only when a child is wanted.



But isn't abstinence also a form of birth control?



If a couple did not have sex on Thursday night, a child would not be born because of it....so why is that any different then preventing the child from being born any other way, during sex.? Either way, there is no child.



Just my opinion.

Answer 10

Birth control isn't morally wrong. If you want to have sex, but you don't want to have a baby, you should use some form of birth control. And remember to always use a condom no matter what. Birth control may not be morally wrong, but taking unnecessary risks with sexually transmitted diseases is morally irresponsible.

Answer 11

I don't understand how you can come on a form visited by thousands of people, and request that each of the people who answer your question not express their bias.

Some are biased FOR, since they feel it is "morally wrong" to create an unwanted child.

And some are biased against, since they feel that it is "morally wrong" to have sex without the possibility of a conception.

Answer 12

Personally I don't think its wrong, In my eyes the the bringing of a baby into a life with parents that are ready or able to raise it is worse the preventing it in the first place. I believe that God is all about intentions, If you truly believe that its right then God is behind your decision, but if you think its wrong and go along with it anyway, then its a sin and its morally wrong.

Hope it helps :)

Answer 13

No. Not using birth control when you are not ready and willing to have a child is morally wrong.

Answer 14

Surely, the other few million sperm, even when someone gets pregnant, that get wasted, are all sins, too.

Its apparently a sin to waste sperm. This is logical to say you sin millions of times if you have a wet dream, have sex, masturbate, get kicked in the gonads, wear too tight pants, urinate after sex, etc. You must implant every single of millions of sperm you produce daily into some girls egg cells, and have billions of children, and over populate the earth so they all starve to death. Its just wrong to waste sperm.

Answer 15

Morality and bias are inseparable. There is no objective morality, especially concerning what is condemned by some groups but not others.

Answer 16

If you don't want children yet choose to remain sexually active, it would irresponsible not to use birth control.



If you have sex with more than one person or you are in a committed relationship yet haven't been tested together it's irresponsible not to use a condom.

Answer 17

No, not at all.



The Bible does not mention one word about taking medication to prevent pregnancy or to maintain a woman's cycle.

Answer 18

No but that is not what your Church teaches and being a hypocrite is wrong. You need to submit to church authority or leave.

Answer 19

The real question is, would you want kids if you were to have sex right now?

Answer 20

no God gave you reason..that is man made to support the church...he will give you no more that is meant

Answer 21

If you arnt married, then yes. But it was gods gift if you are

Answer 22

Only masturbation, it makes you gay.

Answer 23

No.