Drawing upon secular sources, author Mary Eberstadt illustrates that Pope Paul VI’s visionary encyclical Humanae Vitae correctly predicted what would happen when contraception became legal and widespread. As we honor the 40th anniversary of the encyclical (dated July 25th, 1968), it’s high time to look back and see what evil has been wrought by The Pill.
Artificial contraception enslaves us all (women now “freed” from pregnancy, and men who no longer have to worry about consequences) to our libidos. I’ve got a condom, and/or she’s on the pill, let’s do it! Liberating to women? My ass. It turns them into recipients of male sexual aggressiveness.
Artificial contraception also leads to higher abortion rates, because no method is 100% effective, and by contracepting, the couple has already established that they don’t want a child, so what’s the consequence of killing it if pregnancy should occur? (Don’t laugh, I heard this exact line of reasoning from a couple I up-until-then respected.)
