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Brazil to subsidize birth control pills
SAO PAULO, Brazil - Just weeks after Pope Benedict XVI denounced government-backed contraception in a visit to Brazil, the president unveiled a program Monday to provide cheap birth control pills at 10,000 drug stores across the country.
(applauds) If this is the effect the Pope has on the countries he visits, I encourage him to tour widely and often.
“The church favors responsible parenthood, with parents using natural (birth control) methods,” said Tempesta, who oversees the church in the northeastern state of Para.
As the joke goes, the Catholic Church allows women to use mathematics to prevent pregnancy, but neither physics nor chemistry. “Natural Family Planning” has always struck me as a ridiculously contrived loophole. I once heard it explained that the method leaves open the opportunity for God to “give” you a child, if he so wishes. I suppose that if I were to believe in an omnipotent deity who reputably once managed to impregnate a virgin, I’d likely trust that neither a condom nor a pill full of hormones would be likely to thwart him. Perhaps I’m over-estimating omnipotence.
(cross posted at Irreverent Musings)
on June 1st, 2007 at 4:41 pm
I had the planned parenthood topic in my mind. Perhaps that is one of assuming God indifferent to the emotion for giving birth. However, there can really be a development of taking faith in the triad of time (now I’m deliberately being bad) for which the past is the change in qa theocracy of sorts, not mathematics, but factual/coded statistics of the concept that a concept is MORE than a word.
Now Descartes defined the word to concept. But maybe the idea of how the loves of offending chance determine the Concept of man in the perfectionthat he IS the approaching of death BEING.
We can concpetualize the abortion with the alternate decision that the pro-creation is passed on to the other truer lover. Birth control pills OR even temporary overnight enducing abortion pills are real deniers of the event with that certain kind of reprieving of and by re-concilliation to wanted pregnancy in some other, someone you might even not know.
Like Socrates said: I know that I don’t knpw.
on June 4th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
Another reason why the church is out of date to say the very very least. I can’t believe with a new pope there still is no relevant updates
on June 6th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
Speaking of politics:
Did anyone catch this comment from Mike Huckabee, at the Republican debate, when asked about his (dis)belief in evolution:
“If anybody wants to believe that they are the descendants of a
primate, they are certainly welcome to do it.”
My reply is: if his parents/ancestors aren’t primates, then what is he? I think it should at least be a requirement that to be President you have to be a primate!
Or at least understand high school science.
Lori
on June 8th, 2007 at 7:34 am
President of America, I take it you mean?
on June 9th, 2007 at 1:21 am
Loribelle said: “I think it should at least be a requirement that to be President you have to be a primate!”
I think the constitutional restrictions on the office are harsh enough. With this rule in effect, at least six of the last ten men to hold the office would have been disqualified.
on June 10th, 2007 at 8:19 am
Stephen Poxon, I was unaware the continent has its own president. :)
on May 6th, 2010 at 12:52 am
I like the book, Taking Charge of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control by Toni Weschler, MPH. I hate birth control pills and shots, the side effects are too strong for me. So this book is great for me and for others who are tired of the pill and the shots. Oh, and last I heard, I think the Catholic Church does approve of physics and chemistry. There are such people who are Catholic and love science. I go to college with them; I have two roommates majoring in physics and they are Catholic.