The moral case against contraception
The moral case against contraception
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Those who say contraception is morally wrong do so for a variety of reasons.
Contraception is inherently wrong
- Contraception is unnatural
- Contraception is anti-life
- Contraception is a form of abortion
- Contraception separates sex from reproduction
Contraception brings bad consequences
- Contraception carries health risks
- The "contraceptive culture" is dangerous
- Contraception prevents potential human beings being conceived
- Contraception prevents people who might benefit humanity from being born
- Contraception can be used as a eugenic tool
- Contraception is often misused in mass population control programmes in a racist way
- Mass population control programmes can be a form of cultural imperialism or a misuse of power
- Contraception may lead to depopulation
- This sounds odd to an age concerned about over population but for substantial parts of the last 150 years this was a real fear.
Contraception leads to "immoral behaviour"
- Contraception makes it easier for people to have sex outside marriage
- Contraception leads to widespread sexual immorality
- Contraception allows people (even married people) to have sex purely for enjoyment