Re: Logic makes a comeback: morality and materialism

Russell Stewart (diamond@rt66.com)
Wed, 04 Jun 1997 12:28:26 -0600

Steve Stoltz said:
>Birth control is only murder when it acts as an abortifacient, as
>the pill does occasionally. Thus, the pill can effect murder by
>allowing the woman's body to discard the fertilized egg, in cases
>in which fertilization wasn't prevented.
>
>Birth control is, however, a denial of the gift of life which God
>may want to give you, and is intrinsically evil in all cases, as
>discussed in Humanae Vitae (Pope Paul VI, 1968) and in The Gospel
>of Life (Pope John Paul II, 1995). Even if you're not Catholic,
>these documents are a must-read for any serious study of abortion
>or contraception.

Really? I know devout Christians who believe that birth control is not
evil. So much for the "common moral syntax".

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2 + 2 = 5, for very large values of 2.