Off the Pill, “Open to New Life,” But Condoms OK?
November 16, 2005
The Amy Laura Hall piece I recommended earlier–”Better Homes and Children“–is now online, for the time being. Hall and others apparently convinced CT editor Agnieszka Tennant (I thought she is Catholic?) to “get off the pill.” The motivation was one I’ve found common among Evangelicals–the pill and other abortifacient contraceptives are morally unacceptable; others are not. (What about the fact that th pill is carcinogenic and the patch causes deadly blood clots?) Perhaps the cognitive dissonance and self-contradiction that led her this far will will carry her through to a full understanding of the principles involved. For the time being, they remain surprisingly explicit:
Leaving my door unlocked doesn’t necessarily mean that I must stand in the street, asking passersby to come in, right? I believe in free will. And in a Christian’s right to use condoms and/or natural family planning (NFP). For a time that my husband and I will determine, we feel free not to solicit visitors.
Even the pope gets that.
He does?
Further discussion at Mere Comments…
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