Contraception. The Silent Serial Killer.
Annually, around 73 million babies are murdered in the womb. But add the victims of 'silent abortion,' and that number is tragically higher.
One such statistic can be found in Who’s At The Center of Your Marriage… the Pill or Jesus Christ? Contraception’s Disintegrating Effect on Marital Harmony, a book by Mr. Patrick McCrystal, head of Human Life International of Ireland.
Despite the surgical abortion ban in many states in the USA, there has been an increase in abortions because of the chemical abortion pill, as Guttmacher admits.
This is also why abolishing, meaning criminalizing abortion federally, is the true victory, not the gradual approach.
In the United States alone, over 60% of abortions are done through the pill RU486, which is increasing in other countries as well. In Italy, for instance, this abortion pill is being pushed to have the same type of availability as in the United States.
The abortion pill is highly discussed in the anti-abortion movement, but we don't discuss a silent killer enough. Our societies have become so numb to this, even the faithful, even among Catholics, who should oppose this as the Church condemns it.
Contraception.
An estimated 966 million women of reproductive age globally use some form of birth control.
Hormonal Birth Control (HBC) and combined estrogen-progestin oral contraceptives (COC), morning-after pill are among the options.
But what are HBC and COC? How do they work, and what makes them 'silent killers'?
WebMD explains it in this way:
“Hormonal contraceptives (the pill, the patch, and the vaginal ring) all contain a small amount of estrogen and progestin hormones. These hormones inhibit your body’s natural hormones to prevent pregnancy in a few ways. Hormonal contraceptives usually stop the body from ovulating. They also change the cervical mucus to make it difficult for the sperm to go through the cervix and find an egg. They can also prevent pregnancy by changing the lining of the womb so it’s unlikely the fertilized egg will be implanted.”
One key aspect that is incorrect in this statement is the very fact that pregnancy has already occurred. At the moment of fertilization, not only when the egg is implanted. I'm very confident when I say that this is done deliberately, not out of ignorance.
The re-definition of pregnancy on their website is due to 20th century abortion-politics. Even Wikipedia admits: “In the past, pregnancy has been defined in terms of conception: In 1959, Dr. Bent Boving suggested that the word ‘conception’ should be associated with the process of implantation instead of fertilization.” Due to the political influence of Boving and others, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) then began (from 1965 onwards) to define conception as “the implantation of a fertilized ovum.”
“The Pill can also prevent pregnancy by changing the lining of the womb so it’s unlikely the fertilized egg will be implanted.''
Another lie from WebMD. Every geneticist knows that pregnancy begins at fertilization, as 96% biologists affirm. Hence, the pill terminates the pregnancy, not preventing it from happening. This is abortion. This is murder.
Many studies are proving that the Pill has caused strokes and pulmonary embolisms in women. LifeSite News has reported such stories here, here, here, and here. (I)
How Contraception is the Mastermind Behind Abortion
It is often claimed that contraception would reduce abortion, because if sex is done 'responsibly' then problems won't arise from it, and it would reduce the chance of getting pregnant, which would mean fewer abortions...right?
THE HISTORICAL ASPECT
Both abortion and contraception have existed long before the 1960s, but in the 60s the birth control pill opened a dark door. Let's summarize it this way:
1956 - The U.S. legalized the pill.
1973 - The U.S. legalized abortion.
1961 - The UK legalized the pill.
1967 - The UK legalized abortion.
1961 - Australia legalized the pill.
1969 - Australia legalized abortion.
1967 - France legalized the pill.
1975 - France legalized abortion.
1969 - Canada legalized the pill.
1988 - Canada legalized abortion.
1978 - Spain legalized contraception.
1985 - Spain legalized abortion.
Recognize the pattern? First, the pill, second, legalized abortion.
In 1960, the FDA approved the pill, and marketers claimed that sex could now be commitment-free and child-free. The sexual revolution started to take off during this period as well. There was still a resistance against it, as many deemed it immoral; some states restricted or banned it. But five years later, in 1965, Griswold v. Connecticut made contraception a constitutional “right” for married couples, as Connecticut’s law against contraception was now overturned.
In the same year, the word 'conception' was redefined to justify and push the contraceptive mentality. The research for the modern IUD was being conducted, but its operation fell under the definition of
abortion. So, to fix this obstacle, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists changed the definition of “conception” from fertilization to implantation. Through this, the IUD could destroy a newly formed human being on its journey to the uterus and still be called a “contraceptive.” There was no new scientific information to support and prove this definition change. There was just evil manipulation.
In 1972, the ''right'' to contraception for married couples went to the unmarried couples. The boiling frog analogy is clear here. In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the Supreme Court decided that the “right to privacy,” which forced states to legalize contraception for married couples, applied to the unmarried, hence to everyone.
In just a short 12 years, the standard knowledge that sex belonged within marriage was broken culturally. These moral convictions were now deemed bigoted.
And tragically, in 1973, Roe v. Wade legalized abortion nationwide, a ''right'' to abort (intentionally murder a child in the womb), which violates the 14th Amendment in the USA (right to life). Children were not protected anymore. And in the United States alone, since 1973, over 60 million babies (of which black babies are the highest, which was Margaret Sanger's, founder of Planned Parenthood, goal) have been murdered in the womb. The number is higher, including the silent abortions from the abortifacients.
Contraception does create a pro-abortion mentality, because it changes the approach to the purpose of sex (which should be only within marriage), from being for a unitive spiritual meaning between the married couple and for creating new life, to it becoming a mere physical, pleasure-only purpose. And the mindset behind using contraceptives is leaving children out of the picture. Hence, if an 'unplanned' or 'mistake' pregnancy happens, the baby is most likely viewed as a burden or an obstacle to their life plans. Almost as if they feel a 'right' to abort, because the very thing that should have avoided from happening, failed. To use another medical way to cover up another medical failure, forgetting that there is someone involved.
Fr. Paul Marx explains:
''Up until the early 1980s, the most famous pro-abortion leaders admitted that an increase in contraceptive availability inevitably leads to an increase in promiscuity and therefore abortions.
Both of the co-inventors of the birth control pill have confessed that a greater use of contraceptives has led to greater promiscuity and carelessness, which inevitably leads to more abortions.
The large-scale use of contraceptives and abortifacients leads to a tremendously increased rate of
sexual activity, which, combined with method and user failures, leads to a huge increase in the number of
“unplanned pregnancies.”
A very well-known sexologist, Alfred Kinsey, admitted the following:
“At the risk of being repetitious, I would remind the group that we have found the highest
frequency of induced abortion in the group which, in general, most frequently uses contraceptives.”
Malcolm Potts, former Medical Director of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), acknowledged the contraception-abortion linkin 1981:
''As people turn to contraception, there will be a rise, not a fall, in the abortion rate.''
There are more than two million contraceptive failures in the United States alone annually, of which half end in abortion.
THE LIE SOLD
It is believed that contraception is a secure, stable way of avoiding pregnancy. Well, the numbers show otherwise. It has been demonstrated countless times that more than half of all women who obtain abortions were using contraception when they got pregnant. Actually, as couples use regular contraception, like condoms, the higher the chances of getting pregnant as time passes.
If a sexually active girl of age 15 starts using the Pill regularly, there is about a 50% chance that she will become pregnant by the time she is 22!
This statistic can be verified by pro- abortionists, such as Dr. Christopher Tietze, who said: “Within 10 years, 20 to 50% of Pill users and a substantial majority of users of other methods may be expected to experience at least one repeat abortion.''
So the probability of getting pregnant on the pill is:
- 9% in the first year
- 25% in three years
- 38% in five years
- 61% in ten years
And unfortunately, sex education given to us in schools is not helping. They teach us that for a responsible sexual life and to avoid pregnancy are all solved through contraception, by also distributing contraceptives and abortifacients to teenagers without parental consent or knowledge. We are trained from a young age to be numb to this and accept it as moral. Think of the iceberg analogy. Abortion is at the top, contraception in the middle, and at the very bottom, sex education.
The Numbers
The sad reality is that most child-bearing women in first and second-world countries are on the Pill (and most urban third-world women), and the number of women being on the pill would be around 1 billion, but it is believed that this is a conservative number. Of these 1 billion women on the Pill, probably each one of them experiences at least once a year (probably more than once) a breakthrough ovulation during times of intercourse, leading to a fertilized egg (life), which won't be implanted, meaning aborted.
Mathematically, it would mean that globally, one billion abortions occur every year due to the Pill. It is equivalent to the entire population of North America and South America combined being eradicated every year by the Pill alone. And tragically, many Christians from all denominations use contraceptives. We, who should be the salt of the earth and the light of the world, become collaborators with the darkness we ought to resist.
If the Pill kills 1,000,000,000 people a year, and it is likely higher, it would be one seventh of the world’s population that are murdered every year.
Contraceptives are abortifacient!
As briefly mentioned at the beginning of this article, there are many silent abortions annually. And unfortunately, there are pro-lifers and Christians alike who use them as well.
- An abortifacient is defined as “an agent (such as a drug) that induces abortion.''
But manufacturers often market these drugs under the name “contraception” to attract customers and make it less ''graphic.''
- There are two kinds of abortifacients:
- To prevent a child (embryo) from implanting in the uterus; Oral contraceptives such as the birth control pill, Intrauterine devices, Injectables such as Depo-Provera, Implants such as Norplant, Jadelle, Implanon, and Nexplanon.
- That kills the child after implantation; RU-486 (the “abortion pill”), the methotrexate/misoprostol combination. “Emergency contraception”: usually called “morning-after pills.” They consist of high doses of the artificial steroids used in oral contraceptives. The most popular brand is Plan B.
And unfortunately, the evil of contraception has entered the lives of the faithful. The National Survey of Family Growth
shows large majorities of Catholics report using at least one form of
artificial contraception, with over 90% having used condoms and more
than 60% having used the hormonal birth control pill. In 1968, St. Paul VI, who in his encyclical Humanae Vitae declared: “any action … specifically intended to prevent procreation” was “absolutely excluded.”
And today, abortion has become a ''contraceptive.''
Psychologists Eugene Sandburg and Ralph Jacobs noted:
“As legal abortion has become increasingly available, it has become evident that some women are
now intentionally using abortion as a substitute for contraception.”
Dr. Alan Guttmacher, former Medical Director of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, also stated the same around 50 years ago:
''When abortion is easily obtainable, contraception is neither actively nor diligently used. If we had abortion on demand, there would be no reward for the woman who practiced effective contraception.”
And a Canadian sex educator, David Robinson, said the same:
“Today abortion is the most widely used birth control method in the world.''
THE CATHOLIC RESPONSE TO CONTRACEPTIONS
Contraceptives not only kill babies (the most tragic part) but also are a direct attack on family, marriage, and chastity.
Despite the argument made in our cultures today, especially in the post-sex revolution era, that we now have a better and healthier view of sex, this is far from the truth. When we disconnect sex with procreation and the unitive meaning behind it, which is also proven biologically/scientifically, one cannot have a healthy approach to sex. The very purpose of it is being rejected and viewed as negative, hence disaster follows.
Nearly 9 in 10 children who are aborted are conceived to unmarried parents, who did not publcily made that lifelong commitment. In the USA, 51% of women who were seeking abortions reported using contraception in the month they became pregnant with their child. And Planned Parenthood is the largest contraceptive provider and the largest abortion chain in the country. The abortion industry has created this cycle on purpose. It will bring millions and millions of money and power to them. They don't care about you, but your wallets.
And contraceptives have contributed greatly to the decline of marriage, with a higher likelihood of divorce among other factors. Contraceptives actually disconnect the women with her fertility, which is a sign of being healthy, and I say also beautiful, now deemed as almost a disease, a burden, and something on the way to a ''happier'' life for the woman. It has become a heavy burden for many couples nowadays. It requires that the spouses use each other rather than giving and receiving fully and selflessly. It has also been used by corrupt governments to control populations.
IUDs have also been placed in Inuit women without consent in Greenland, allegedly to decrease the Inuit population. Similar in India, which sterilized 6.2 million men in the ’70s (and thousands died because of the botched sterilizations). In Peru in the ’90s, when President Fujimori practically forced women to sterilize themselves, and offered poor women food as a strategy. And of course, the very well-known China’s one-child policy, which led to more than 330 million abortions, sterilizations, and, as a result, severe population decline.
Contraceptives have toxic and unhealthy side effects on the bodies of women, but birth control has also affected men. Women who regularly ingest the powerful steroids in all modern hormonal methods of birth control experience effects such as ectopic pregnancies, cancers, heart attacks, mood swings, and depression. Hormonal birth control can even affect who a woman is attracted to! For example, birth control pills have been found to add estrogen to tap water, which has health consequences that do not appear positive, as Business Insider has written. (II)
We have been taught to believe that contraception, especially with condoms, can avoid STIs, instead of teaching that sex belongs within marriage and not normalizing fornication. But numbers prove otherwise:
STIs have increased dramatically despite the heavy promotion and distribution of condoms. In the USA alone, in 2018, as reported by the CDC, 1 in 5 people had an STI, with the majority of those cases occurring among young people, 15 to 24 years old.
Condoms cannot protect against infections that are transmitted through skin-to-skin contact or that affect areas not covered by the condom. Examples of such infections include HPV, herpes, and syphilis (the CDC admits that condoms do not protect against these diseases). Given that the incorrect use of condoms is common, HIV transmission is also high. Indeed, there is only an 80-94% reduction in transmission risk, and thus there is a 6-20% chance of transmitting HIV.
Pope Paul VI predicted that forced sterilization would result in the acceptance of contraception. It came true.
IUDs have also been placed in Inuit women without consent in Greenland, allegedly to decrease the Inuit population. The story is similar in India, which sterilized 6.2 million men in the ’70s (and thousands died as a result of botched sterilizations). Again, we see the same in Peru in the ’90s, when President Fujimori practically forced women to sterilize themselves, offering poor women food as a cruel incentive. Perhaps the most famous example of forced sterilization and abortion is China’s one-child policy, which led to more than 330 million abortions, millions of sterilizations, and severe population decline. Sadly, these are only a few examples of government-imposed population control that result from a nation straying far from the truth.
CONCLUSION
Philosopher Dietrich von Hildebrand reminds us of something important:
Unfortunately, with poor choices by Pope Leo XIV to appoint bishops like Cyril Villareal as bishop of Kalibo, Philippines, who is in favor of contraception, the mission for every Christ follower and server of our King has become heavier.“Every true Catholic must rejoice also when he is allowed to see clearly that the Church does not conform to the ‘majority opinion’ but to the Word of God, and that the Holy Father [Paul VI] must proclaim the truth even when it goes against the current of the times. The encyclical Humanae Vitae, in which the Holy Father teaches us clearly the true moral nature of artificial birth control, enables the individual to know exactly what God expects of him and appeals to our conscience not to offend God” (The Encyclical Humanae Vitae: A Sign of Contradiction).''
Bishop Villareal suggests departing from natural law principles, which were reaffirmed in Humanae Vitae and the Catechism of the Catholic Church, to find a 'new way' to evaluate sexuality and marriage.
In Bishop Villareal's 2011 academic work submitted to the University of Vienna, he wrote the following: “a new way of looking at sexual morality through the Trinitarian love and not anymore through the natural law perspective.”
He has also continued to state:
“On the one hand, there is the magisterium of the Church imposing her teaching on sexuality, which invokes the power of the natural law as springing from the divine law,” he wrote. “On the other hand, the laity clamor about the difficulty of what the Church imposes on them. … The big question then is, why can’t the Church change its teaching on sexuality?”
Villareal suggested that the traditional teaching no longer applies because “times have changed.”
This approach is incompatible with the official moral teaching of the Catholic Church, which affirms that certain acts are intrinsically evil and may never be chosen, regardless of intention or circumstances. The Catechism of the Catholic Church: “there are acts which, in and of themselves, independently of circumstances and intentions, are always gravely illicit.” (CCC, no. 1756)
Pope Leo XIV has appointed several bishops whose statements and theological positions have contradicted the teaching of the Church guided by the Holy Spirit: Shane Mackinlay in Brisbane, Australia; Beat Grögli in St. Gallen, Switzerland; José Antonio Satué Huerto in Málaga, Spain; Sithembele Sipuka in Cape Town, South Africa; and Joseph Grünwidl in Vienna, Austria...just to name a few.
There is a deep crisis within the Church (intensifying from the 60s on and has increased from 2013 onwards), and Pope Paul VI did warn us in 1972 in his homily, that ''the smoke of Satan has entered the Church of God.''
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