Is Birth Control Immoral?

[Sunstone]

You'd think Conservatives had limits to what advances in human well-being they are wiling to oppose, but many Conservatives will even oppose contraception, including some Conservatives who are candidates for the American presidency. So, do they have a point? Is contraception immoral? Why or why not?

 

[Draka]

Stupidity in motion.

What is immoral is to keep bringing kids into the world when you have no means to care for them or don't even want kids in the first place. It is immoral to insist that a couple cannot be a fully loving couple if they don't want kids, because you erroneously think sex is just for reproduction.

Are all contraception methods "bad"? Or just certain ones? What ones? Why? Is the pill the same as a condom? Is an IUD the same as a vasectomy? Just what is the issue here?

 

[IsmailaGodHasHeard]

No. Contraception is a right.

 

[Madhuri]

I don't think birth control is immoral.
There might be some arguments about how it is indirectly immoral, such as that it may encourage sexual activity in very young people, outside of marriage.
But the usage of birth control in and of itself is not immoral imo. It might be sometimes unhealthy, it might be sometimes unpredictable, but not immoral.

 

[gnomon]

I'm finding this "no sex with gnomon" abstinence campaign to be immoral.

Beyond that birth control is not immoral. My bet is that primary reason a culture would declare birth control to be immoral would be those that wish to limit women's rights.

 

[Sunstone]

I'm finding this "no sex with gnomon" abstinence campaign to be immoral.

That campaign has spread to Colorado, damnit.

Beyond that birth control is not immoral. My bet is that primary reason a culture would declare birth control to be immoral would be those that wish to limit women's rights.

I'd rank that up there as one of the main reasons.

 

[IsmailaGodHasHeard]

I'm finding this "no sex with gnomon" abstinence campaign to be immoral.

Beyond that birth control is not immoral. My bet is that primary reason a culture would declare birth control to be immoral would be those that wish to limit women's rights.

Amen to that. I used the morning after pill and I will not be sorry for it.

 

[Panda]

We get free condoms in the UK......

 

[IsmailaGodHasHeard]

We get free condoms in the UK......

We do here in America too.

 

[9Westy9]

What is wrong with the world

 

[IsmailaGodHasHeard]

What is wrong with the world

Not all conservatives are opposed to contraceptive rights.

 

[Sunstone]

Not all conservatives are opposed to contraceptive rights.

True. But there are far, far more Conservatives opposed to contraceptive rights than there are Liberals opposed to contraceptive rights.

 

[9Westy9]

Not all conservatives are opposed to contraceptive rights.

I was referring to all the threads of idiots I've seen recently. This world just seems to be going downhill rather than uphill with all this nonsense talk.

 

[Alex_G]

It really isn’t immoral. Its very tiresome to knock heads with the same old caricatures who claim it is.
It is a person’s right as an individual, autonomous, conscious and sentient being to care for themselves as they see fit, and the freedom to all the healthcare and technology that is around them, which we as a race have cultivated for ourselves, for the pursuit of better, healthier lives.

To be free and not subject to coercion and pressure from unreasonable, inflexible and ignorant agents, hell bent on forcing their own prejudices and bigotry on others. Their continuation is what is immoral in this story.

The practical benefits of contraception’s availability and use far outweigh the drawbacks. Its place in a modern society is fully justified.
You would not jump to question the widespread use of heart medication, psychiatric medication or modern surgery. No, because their place in society is clear and obvious. But with contraception, it seems its the 'sex obsessed' ignorami, stuck in the dark ages that continue to embarrass the world in this modern day and age. And i unfortuantely cant help seeing a history of religous culture built on shame and misinformation lying at the heart of it.

Alex

 

[Quintessence]

If anything, continuing to make babies in a world where humans are overpopulated is immoral, not methods to contain our exponential growth rates.

 

[Pegg]

You'd think Conservatives had limits to what advances in human well-being they are wiling to oppose, but many Conservatives will even oppose contraception, including some Conservatives who are candidates for the American presidency. So, do they have a point? Is contraception immoral? Why or why not?

I'd agree it was immoral if its the 'abortive' type of contraception.

otherwise, if it simply prevents conception from occurring, then no.