Sexuality:

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Sexuality
Modern View
vs.
Christian View
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Babies Blessings or Burdens?
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World Population
Source United Nations, World Population
Prospects, The 1998 Revision and estimates by
the Population Reference Bureau
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God is Love
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Male and Female He Created Them

• It is not good that man should be alone. (Gen.
  218)

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The Importance of Marriage
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Casual, Recreational Sex
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Accidental Pregnancy
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Contraception Contribution?

• Quiz (check one)
• Q What has contributed the most good to our
  culture in this century?
• contraceptives
• cars
• computers
• T.V.s and V.C.R.s

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Early Predictions

• Control the population crisis
• Reduce the number of unwed pregnancies and
  abortions
• Improve marriages

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Teen Sexual Activity
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Estimated AnnualNew Cases of STDS
Source Kaiser Family Foundation and American
Social Service Health Association Sexually
Transmitted Diseases in America, 1998
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Out of Wedlock Births
Percentage of out of wedlock births
Source William J. Bennett, The Index of Leading
Cultural Indicators
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Abortions
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Contraception Leads to Abortion
In some critical respects abortion is of the
same character as the decision to use
contraception.... For two decades of economic and
social developments, people have organized
intimate relationships and made choices that
define their views of themselves and their places
in society, in reliance on the availability of
abortion in the event that contraception should
fail. United State Supreme CourtPlanned
Parenthood vs. Casey
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Contraceptives as Abortifacients

• The contraceptive pill works in three ways
• Prevents ovulation
• Prevents sperm from meeting egg
• As an abortifacient prevents fertilized ovum
  from implanting in uterine wall.

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Cohabitation and Divorce
Couples now live together before marriage and
split up after marriage!
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Divorce Rates
Divorces (per 1,000 married women)
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Single Parent Families
Percentage of All Families with Children
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Contraceptions Bad Consequences

• facilitates sex outside of marriage
• increases incidence of sexually transmitted
  diseases
• leads to unwanted pregnancy and single parenthood
• causes and leads to abortion
• contributes to divorce
• contributes to social chaos

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Pope Paul VIs Predictions

• general lowering of morality
• less respect for women
• coercive control by governments over sexuality
• bodies become machines
• (Humanae Vitae 17)

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Oppressive Governments and Population Control
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Test Tube Babies
designergenes
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Humanae Vitae
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Philippine Bishops Apologize

• It is said that when seeking ways of regulating
  births, only 5 of you consult God. In the face
  of this unfortunate fact, we your pastors have
  been remiss how few are there among you whom we
  have reached. There have been some couples eager
  to share their expertise and values on birth
  regulation with others. They did not receive
  adequate support from their priests. We did not
  give them due attention, believing then this
  ministry consisted merely of imparting a
  technique best left to married couples.

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Philippine Bishops Apologize

• Only recently have we discovered how deep your
  yearning is for God to be present in your married
  lives. But we did not know then how to help you
  discover Gods presence and activity in your
  mission of Christian parenting. Afflicted with
  doubts about alternatives to contraceptive
  technology, we abandoned you to your confused and
  lonely consciences with a lame excuse follow
  what your conscience tells you. How little we
  realized that it was our consciences that needed
  to be formed first. A greater concern would have
  led us to discover that religious hunger in you.

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Catholics and Contraception
Catholics 196066 did NOT contracept
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Philippine Bishops Apologize
Catholics 199580 contracept
80
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Reasons to condemn Contraception

• a violation of the good of a womans physical and
  psychological health
• an impediment to the total self-giving of spousal
  love
• a rejection of God as Creator of new life

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Fertility is a Great Good
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Violation of Physical Health
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Common Side-Effects

• increased irritability
• increased propensity to depression
• weight gain
• reduced sex drive

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An Insult to Women
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Impediment to Total Self-Giving
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Babies are Bonding
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God Creates Every Human Soul
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Contraceptive Thwarts Gods Life-Giving power
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Responsible Parenting
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Natural Family Planning
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Effectiveness of NFP
pregnancy rates of couples using NFP have
depended on the motivation of couples.
Increasingly studies show that rates equivalent
to those with other contraceptive methods are
readily achieved in the developed and developing
worlds. Indeed, a study of 19,843 poor women in
India had a pregnancy rate approaching zero.
Natural family planning is cheap, efficient,
without side effects, and may be particularly
acceptable to and efficacious among people in
areas of poverty. Dr. R. E. J. RyderBritish
Medical Journal, Sept. 18, 1993
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NFP vs. Contraception
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Benefits of NFP

• No bad physical side-effects
• Requires mutual sacrifice
• Enhances communication between spouses and
  strengthens marriages
• Strengthens couples relationship with God
• No harm to society

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Miracle at Cana
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Next Talk

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