Catholics Choose Plan B Over Abortion

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By Andromeda10

Sex Rules

Plan B is a over-the-counter medication available from your local pharmacy. According to advertisments, Plan B should be taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex to prevent conception.

How is Plan B, also dubbed "the abortion pill" linked to abortion and the rules that the Catholic church requires of their followers? Are Catholics who use the abortion pill going to Hell?

 


Pope John Paul II  (images.search.yahoo.com)
Pope John Paul II (images.search.yahoo.com)

The Scripture

In 1995, Pope John Paul II declared that the Church’s teaching on abortion "is unchanged and unchangeable. Therefore, by the authority which Christ conferred upon Peter and his successors . . . I declare that direct abortion, that is, abortion willed as an end or as a means, always constitutes a grave moral disorder, since it is the deliberate killing of an innocent human being. This doctrine is based upon the natural law and upon the written word of God, is transmitted by the Church’s tradition and taught by the ordinary and universal magisterium. No circumstance, no purpose, no law whatsoever can ever make licit an act which is intrinsically illicit, since it is contrary to the law of God which is written in every human heart, knowable by reason itself, and proclaimed by the Church" (Evangelium Vitae 62).

Quote available at Catholic.com

Plan B versus Abortion

 Plan B: Prevents conception

Abortion: Remove fetus AFTER conception

What is the difference? Is it the word "conception" that provides the loop-hole for Catholics to feel okay about choosing the Plan B pill over abortion?

If you ask me, if the "little guys" are on their way to go "egg hunting" and they are stopped by unnatural methods (i.e. Plan B) isn't that the same as abortion?

Sex for Pleasure

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the Catholic church ALWAYS said that sex is to be used soley for procreation of human life?

Why are self-proclaimed "devout" Catholics (not all, some) having sex without the intentions of making babies? For selfish, feel-good purposes I would suppose.

Additionally, why are "devout" Catholics (not all, some) having pre-marital and/or extra-marital sex?

Link to Chastity.comwhich boasts "The new sexual revolution is here!"

Dear Catholic Friend, How Not To Go To Hell

Go to your nearest confessional.

So, please let me claify, Catholics are allowed to commit the deadly sins as long as they rush to the nearest confessional to receive forgiveness from the Church.

So how many sins can Catholics commit before the time expires to confess them? Before death? Or is it to clear a concsience. Sounds quite self-serving, not Church serving, to me.

Birth Control

Some "devout" Catholics who are "surely going to Heaven" (they think) are birth control users and continue to have pre-marital sex and sex for pleasure.

Does the Catholic church not also have a rule about using contraceptives?

 I hope these "devoutees" are not gravely disappointed on Judgment Day because they decided to pick and choose WHICH Catholic rules to live by.

My Church Affiliation

None.

Awweeee

Pope Benedict XVI     (renegadecatholic.com)
Pope Benedict XVI (renegadecatholic.com)

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itakins  says:
5 weeks ago

Mis-informed to say the least.I would be interested to know your precise sources on all of the above!

Confession-Effective if one's intentions are a genuine desire to repent and reform//otherwise-maybe the sacrament may help one see the error of one's way-God is good!

Blessings.

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Andromeda10  says:
5 weeks ago

itakins, Thank you for your comment. I can only cite written information or televised/broadcasted information. I cannot cite my opinions, conversations or life experiences. --Sorry....?? I don't know what information you want that has not already been included in the article.

itakins profile image

itakins  says:
5 weeks ago

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the Catholic church ALWAYS said that sex is to be used soley for procreation of human life?

No- a common misunderstanding among non-catholics.

Catholics are allowed to commit the deadly sins as long as they rush to the nearest confessional to receive forgiveness from the Church.

The 'church' doesn't forgive-God forgives sin-in the sacrament of confessions through an ordained priest-''Thou art Peter and upon this rock,I will build my church''

Any procedure carried out or medication taken with the 'intention' of causing death to a baby in utero is a mortal sin.

The morning after pill is included in above /as is unnatural contraception.

Thank you for responding

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mupes  says:
5 weeks ago

Catholics may choose to do what is forbidden by the Church, but it doesn't change the rule. And, as Itakins has said, there are two dimensions to human sexuality - the procreative and the unitive, and they are both of equal value. I would see a distinction between abortion and artificial contraception, but that's my personal opinion.

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