A Baffling Situation
— Posted by Christina (June 22, 2008 at 11:02 pm)
Recently there was this news article about some teenage girls at Gloucester High School in Massachucetts who supposedly made a “pact” to get pregnant together!
One article about this can be read here. I have not heard about anything like this before, and am surprised. I wondered what made them do this.
It’s true that there have been quite a few actresses and singers who have been having babies; perhaps the girls wanted to have babies too! I was thinking that it is beneficial to the pro-life movement to have all these actresses being so happy about their babies. But I didn’t suspect that something like this “pregnancy pact” would happen!
The real tragedy will be if the schools, in efforts to prevent something like this happening again, try to encourage contraception and abortion for their students. We’re going to have to undo all such nonsense all over again!
It’s strange how in the news article, they’re talking about how the school may now provide contraceptives to its students. I’m thinking, just start teaching abstinence! Then watch all their problems disappear!
Maybe the schools are under pressure from Planned Parenthood to encourage contraception and abortion.
But yeah, this is difinitely a surprising and even interesting situation, and I am going to watch for more news about it.
God bless.
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Lesforlife says:
Are any contemplating the possible role the movie Juno
might have in the mix?
Comment posted June 23rd, 2008 at 6:30 am
Mary says:
They wanted babies to love them.
Now, think what will happen when the baby cries at 3 AM and the mother decides that the baby doesn’t love her.
(Abused children are actually more likely to have been not only wanted but planned.)
Comment posted June 23rd, 2008 at 3:56 pm
petrufied says:
oh i read that too!
I think the root of it is not understanding the great responsibility of having a child–they only see the “glamor” of it, and of course, if all your friends are having babies, you’d like to have one too so you can be like them.
Comment posted June 23rd, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Pansy Moss says:
I don’t think this is anything new, I think it is “news” because it happened in a predominately white area.
Regardless, rich, poor, white, black, the question is why? I don’t think these girls are thinking too far ahead. I think the answer might be as simple as it is the “in thing” to do in there circle.
Comment posted June 24th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
RSD says:
“I don’t think these girls are thinking too far ahead”
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Hmmm….who would be responsible to teach them that? Maybe they were NOT taught to use responsible and mature judgement in cases where pre-marital sex is concerned?
Oh, wait..silly me…they DON’T teach those important stuff in Sex ed classes sponsored by PP and other liberal/ pro-abort groups.
Comment posted June 26th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Em says:
This is ridiculous. God, this makes me SO ANGRY. I have little sympathy for those girls. They are selfish. Their poor babies! It is an absolutely self-centered act to gamble with somebody else’s life that way. Those little babies might not have the good life they deserve, all because their parents were SELFISH.
Contraception isn’t bad, though I do object to giving it out to high schoolers as a “solution” to teen pregnancy. But when you’re married I don’t see a problem with using contraception.
Comment posted June 26th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Mike says:
Em,
Have you ever read Humanae Vitae?
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-vi_enc_25071968_humanae-vitae_en.html
or read Christopher West’s book on “Theology of the Body”?
Mike
Comment posted June 26th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Mike says:
VIDEO: If Fatherhood Begins At Conception…
http://www.jillstanek.com/archives/2008/06/obama_if_father.html#comments
Mike
Comment posted June 27th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Mike says:
NEW ONLINE VIDEO: Jason Evert Speaks About “Romance Without Regret” to College Students. This is a MUST SEE ONLINE VIDEO! Here’s the link…
http://www.pureloveclub.com/seminars/index.php?id=5
Mike
Comment posted June 29th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Em says:
I don’t see the difference between NFP and using a condom; they’re both used to avoid pregnancy.
Comment posted June 30th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Mike says:
Em,
Here’s the answer…
Natural Family Planning is the knowledge of a couple’s fertility. It is a knowledge base about a couple’s ability to conceive a child.
The application of this knowledge in a particular marriage is called responsible parenthood. The couple either decides to try to achieve a pregnancy or to avoid by timing their use of the privileges of marriage according to the knowledge of their mutual fertility. (The man, if healthy, is fertile all the time. The woman, if healthy, is fertile about three or four days a month.)
Responsible parenthood differs from contraception in two ways:
1. There is no alteration of the bodies of either the husband or wife and this is a huge difference.
2. When the couple uses the privileges of marriage, they are not holding back at all or refusing to give everything they are, physically and spiritually. If they are infertile at the time, this is the result of the way God created them.
They are giving themselves totally to one another AS THEY ARE AT THAT MOMENT. No one could require more. Further, God never asked couples to use the privileges of marriage at any particular time. That decision is completely theirs. So, in the marital act during an infertile period, husband and wife who are applying the knowledge of their fertility (NFP) responsibly (responsible parenthood) are giving everything they are at that moment to one another.
The intention is also different. The NFP couple realizes that in every marital union there is a chance (perhaps remote) of conceiving a child and they accept this possibility. The contracepting couple (even if only with condoms) has a positive intention against conception.
An example might help: I want some money from a bank. It makes a huge difference whether I go to the bank and draw the money out from a checking account or whether I approach a teller with a gun and “withdraw” $100. Either way, I get the $100, but one act is radically differnt from the other.
http://www.ewtn.com/vexperts/showmessage.asp?number=441428
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I would also go to PureLoveClub.com and listen to the online talks given by Jason Evert on the website.
Mike
Comment posted June 30th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Em says:
I can see your point… I would personally never use a condom, because, well, I guess I’ve always considered myself a romantic, and a condom separating two people who love each other in what’s supposed to be an encredibly wonderful and bonding act just seems really unromantic to me… But I don’t have a problem if someone else uses them.
Comment posted June 30th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Mike says:
Em,
There’s many other reasons why not to use condoms/contraception. For instance those using contraception divorce 50% of the time. Those using NFP have a divorce rate between 0-4%.
Condoms/contraception all have failure rates for pregnancy and std’s. Using contraception is not being open to God’s Plan. Abstinance education is 100% effective.
Here’s some video’s you may want to watch…
http://www.jillstanek.com/archives/2007/07/nfp_vs_contrace.html#comments
Mike
Comment posted July 1st, 2008 at 5:34 am
Christina says:
Mike,
Great job!!! You put it both beautifully and truthfully! I’ve never seen this subject explained so well.
God bless.
Comment posted July 1st, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Em says:
I’ve never personally met a Catholic who is not currently using contraception or didn’t use it in the past.
Comment posted July 5th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Mike says:
Em,
Those Catholics are not “Practicing” Catholics. Some people like to call them “Cafeteria” Catholics.
Mike
Comment posted July 6th, 2008 at 9:56 am