Whats wrong with artificial contraception?
Artificial contraception contradicts the divinely ordained meaning of marital relations. Sex in marriage is for total self-giving to the other spouse and total acceptance of him or her. For a wife to give herself to her husband without giving her fertility is not a total gift of herself. This warps and trivializes the meaning of sex and marriage. For a husband to reject the fertility of his wife is an insult. He acts as if one of his wife’s greatest God-given gifts is a liability. He insults God by implying that his wife was created wrongly, that she is “too” fertile and fruitful. Moreover, some forms of artificial contraception are abortifacient. They don’t prevent conception but help parents kill their own children. Pope John Paul II has taught: “It is being demonstrated in an alarming way by the development of chemical products, intrauterine devices and vaccines which, distributed with the same ease as contraceptives, really act as abortifacients in the very early stages of the deve
