The Pill: For Dudes

[Granite]

This is in the works, and will probably be a reality--at least in a few countries; stateside, you never know--within a decade.

So, question. If a birth control pill were available for men, who here would be cool with it? Cool with using it? Opposed? Ambivalent? UTTERLY FREAKED OUT?:think:

 

[IMJerusha]

How's it supposed to work?

 

[Granite]

Very carefully!

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/12/03/male-birth-control-pill-indonesia/19825387/

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/09/we-ll-have-male-birth-control-by-2017.html

 

[IMJerusha]

Very carefully!

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/12/03/male-birth-control-pill-indonesia/19825387/

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/09/we-ll-have-male-birth-control-by-2017.html

These are two different forms of birth control.

I'm opposed to anything that alters the natural way of things internally without extensive long term study not just on the subject but also on the immediate progeny of test subjects.

 

[serpentdove]

These are two different forms of birth control.

I'm opposed to anything that alters the natural way of things internally without extensive long term study not just on the subject but also on the immediate progeny of test subjects.

An abortifacient (e.g. Plan B) kills a baby (Pr 8:36).

 

[Town Heretic]

This is in the works, and will probably be a reality--at least in a few countries; stateside, you never know--within a decade.

So, question. If a birth control pill were available for men, who here would be cool with it? Cool with using it? Opposed? Ambivalent? UTTERLY FREAKED OUT?:think:

Terrific notion, especially for anyone who sees traditional, female birth control as an abortifacient. Beats a surgical procedure.

 

[IMJerusha]

Terrific notion, especially for anyone who sees traditional, female birth control as an abortifacient. Beats a surgical procedure.

What do you call traditional female birth control? Many women consider a diaphragm and spermicide or a condom and spermicide to be traditional female birth control which is not abortifacient.

 

[1PeaceMaker]

I don't support more cancer for men. lain:

Also fatherhood is better than depopulation.

 

[Granite]

Terrific notion, especially for anyone who sees traditional, female birth control as an abortifacient. Beats a surgical procedure.

Exactly! That I can see all possible moral concerns (beyond opposition to birth control in general) are pretty much avoided.

 

[The Berean]

I really don't care. If guys want to "shoot blanks" that's their business. :Grizzly:




Frankly, I would just use a condom.

 

[rougueone]

Contraception, by definition, is merely the opposite of conception.

This is a decision that resides in the user of birth control. Motives is definitely the key component here. .

 

[serpentdove]

...[F]atherhood is better than depopulation.

Europe doesn't believe this. They have no hope; therefore, they aren't reproducing.

Didn't they turn all of their churches into bars?

 

[Granite]

Contraception, by definition, is merely the opposite of conception.

This is a decision that resides in the user of birth control. Motives is definitely the key component here. .

I suspect it has something to do with not getting pregnant.:think:

 

[The Berean]

Europe doesn't believe this. They have no hope; therefore, they aren't reproducing.

Didn't they turn all of their churches into bars?

No, mosques actually.

 

[patrick jane]

This is in the works, and will probably be a reality--at least in a few countries; stateside, you never know--within a decade.

So, question. If a birth control pill were available for men, who here would be cool with it? Cool with using it? Opposed? Ambivalent? UTTERLY FREAKED OUT?:think:

i'd have to know more. long term effects and such. how long does it work and the side effects. but hey, if we had women take a pill, what's good for the goose - atrol:

 

[Town Heretic]

No, mosques actually.

No mosques? I was having a good day and you had to go and bring up Leonard/Durán II. :mmph:

 

[Granite]

:doh:

Always comes back to the mosques.

 

[serpentdove]

[Europe churches turned into bars] No, mosques actually.

Always comes back to the mosques.

Ge 16:12, Jer 7:6, GWT :CRASH:

 

[IMJerusha]

I don't support more cancer for men. lain:

Agreed. A little bit of time taken in the process of intercourse with external means might make for fewer cancer victims.

Also fatherhood is better than depopulation.

Or adoption as opposed to depopulation. There are an awful lot of good couples out there wanting children who can not have them.

 

[Cruciform]

So, question. If a birth control pill were available for men, who here would be cool with it? Cool with using it? Opposed? Ambivalent? UTTERLY FREAKED OUT?

I would continue to affirm the constant teaching of Christ's one historic Catholic Church, which has opposed contraception of any kind for the past two millennia. Its use is categorically immoral.



Gaudium de veritate,

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