Next Teleseminar on Contraception Tonight
— Posted by John (August 31, 2006 at 9:31 am)
The Pro-Life Action League’s next “Contraception Is Not the Answer” teleseminar is tonight, August 31, at 8:00 p.m. Central Time (9 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. Pacific). The call will feature two of the most articulate and knowledgeable authorities on what makes for a strong marriage — and how marriage is undermined by contraception.
Damon Clarke Owens, founder of Joy Filled Marriage, will give a preview of his talk, “‘The Perfect Family’: How Contraception Affects Marriage and the Home.”
Jennifer Roback-Morse, author and research fellow at the Acton Institute, will tell us about her conference talk entitled, “Women’s Liberation? The Cultural Contradictions of Contraception.”
If you’d like to hear what these two speakers have to say tonight — or if you would like to be able to hear online recordings of all our preview teleseminars, register here.
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Michael-2 says:
Contraception seems to be the root of a number of issues in society today, but it is divorce and the undermining of marriage that seems to be getting attention with peoples and groups that had wholeheartily accepted contraception a generation ago.
This does not mean that huge numbers of people are going to through away their contraceptives, but a process may be possible.
People on hormonal contraception could through away their Pills, patches and IUDs and go to barriers; people on barrier contraception can learn fertility awareness and use a hybrid system of NFP with some barrier use. People who already using fertility awareness can clean up still more of their “acts”.
Contraception in ancient times was peddled by occultists and soothsayers; and it was actually abortificient herbs. This stayed that way for centuries and the practice was long considered a feminists thing bordering on witchcraft. In the 19th-20th century fairly effective barrier contraception was developed but for a long time, until about 1965 the advocates of this tended to be out of the mainstream of society.
Oddly today fertility awareness education is advocated by two very different agents; certain out-of-the-mainsteam feminists and the Catholic Church. While this is no way an alliance in the making I think there is enough of a paradox here to dispell the canard that the Catholic Church is anti-woman to the core.
Comment posted September 1st, 2006 at 11:59 pm