Each night has its own serious thoughts that go through my mind. Every time I awoke last night, I was thinking about the contraceptive controversy. And then this morning, three online articles “just happened” to appear for me to read and post about.
I find it impossible to understand how couples make the decisions that they make about this issue. People protect their privacy and don’t readily talk about their choices. Are these secrets kept out of (perhaps unacknowledged) shame and guilt?
I do find that among the Protestants and Catholics that I know, most of them practice unnatural birth control. Following years of ‘the pill’, it seems to be very common for those with more than a couple of children to have vasectomies and tubal ligation. I don’t understand how it is so easily accepted to use unnatural methods of birth control that can be dangerous and risky, never mind biblically questionable.
I don’t understand how Christians can EVER think ‘the pill’ could be a moral choice. Who can condone something with side effects that can hurt or kill women, never mind the fact that it sometimes works as an abortifacient?
Rivers of Blood
A Brazilian pro-life Evangelical writes about the contraceptive culture and prophecies in Revelation
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/dec/081218a.html
“In the end times, the Bible tells us that rivers, seas and the fountains of water will ‘become blood as of a dead man’ Revelation 16:3-4, explaining that because of the shedding of innocent blood (see Revelation 16:5-6), judgment shall come.”
“Today, perhaps in fulfillment of these prophesies, rivers have become deposits of annihilated lives. Hundreds of millions of women use pills and other birth-control devices that provoke micro-abortions that end flushed in toilets, and then into rivers.”
Carol’s note: When the water is recycled, wouldn’t it be cannibalism?
“How many users of ‘the pill’ know that hormonal contraception not only prevents conception, but also prevents a newly-conceived embryo from implanting in the mother’s uterus? A new human being, too tiny to see, dies of hunger, and is flushed out of his mother’s body with her next menstrual cycle. The contraceptive pill not only represents the refusal of God’s gift of new life, but it actively destroys it.”
“Christmas, which is commemorated as the birthday of Jesus Christ, is a time of joy and happiness. As Mary welcomed the baby Jesus in her womb, so every woman who opens herself fully to her maternal role is receiving not only a little child, but also the presence of Jesus himself. Jesus says:”
“Whoever welcomes a child in my name welcomes me. Whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me.” Mark 9:37
“The joy and happiness of Christmas are multiplied with each birth that we welcome in the name of Jesus. When a Christian woman welcomes her maternal mission in the name of Jesus, she is welcoming not only a baby that comes as a gift planned by God, but also more power from the Kingdom of God.”
“What we know also is that Revelation makes it clear that judgment shall come. And thousands of years ago the Bible explained that the shedding of innocent blood causes the land to be polluted:”
“You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.” Numbers 35:33 ESV
“As it happened in the phenomenal technological and scientific advance of Nazi Germany, the cost of modern progress of technology and science in human reproduction is delusion and the shedding of innocent blood. Hormonal contraception has transformed modern, sexually active men and women into shedders of innocent blood, leaving society under the curse of uncountable number of murders that shall bring judgment.”
A Longer Condensation of Does The Birth Control Pill Cause Abortions? By Randy Alcorn
http://www.epm.org/artman2/publish/prolife_birth_control_pill/A_Longer_Condensation_of_Does_The_Birth_Control_Pill_Cause_Abortions.shtml
The Pill: What You Might Not Know
Even With More Women on Birth Control, Many Don’t Hear About the Variety of Side Effects
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=6484342
“Doctors focus on the major side effects that can pose a health risk: the risk of blood clots among smokers, high blood pressure, and stroke with some migraine headaches, for example.”
“Women on the pill may suffer a lackluster sex drive, mood swings, or even extra sinus pressure.”
“The pill may change how women find a man’s scent sexually attractive.”
“‘They may choose someone they may not choose otherwise,’ he said. In theory, Roberts said a woman may choose a man while she’s on the pill and feel fine, but subconsciously find her mate less attractive if she goes off the pill.”
“‘There is evidence that couples that are more MCH similar to each other have more difficulty conceiving, and they have more miscarriages,’ added Roberts, who has also cited research that women who marry men with similar MCH genes are more likely to have an affair.”
“Women on the pill may experience heartburn, or constipation, or sleep disturbances, either as insomnia or extra sleepiness.”
