"Early Church writers (Justin Martyr, Athenagoras, Irenaeus, Tertulli-an, Clement of Alexandria, Hippolytus, Origen, Cyprian, Lactantius, Epiphanius, Jerome, Augustine, and others) reviled contraception and abortion while extolling sexual purity and God's procreation plan through marriage. They esteemed celibacy when committed to God's service (as Apostle Paul taught), while marriage, by virtue of the union, required an openness to children as God willed. Believing God foreknew and chose each child who is conceived, they deemed contraceptive use a form of murder, however unintended." - The Church Poem [file:///C:/Users/Fred/AppData/Local/Temp/Church%20Poem.pdf]
It appears that the path to abortion and hurting your own body is the Pill according to lawyer and researcher Andrew Flusche:
This constant presence of powerful steroids is not healthy, and there are side effects when using the pill.
How does the pill work?
The birth control pill can work in one of three ways:
1. It can prevent ovulation (releasing an egg from the ovary)
2. It can cause the mucus in the cervix to change so that if sperm reach the cervix, they are not allowed to enter, and
3. It can irritate the lining of the uterus so that if the first two
actions fail, and the woman does become pregnant, the tiny baby boy or
girl will die before he or she can actually attach to the lining of the
uterus.
In other words, if the third action occurs, the woman's
body rejects the tiny baby and he or she will die. This is called a
chemical abortion.
Abortion is an act of direct killing that takes the life of a tiny human being-a life that begins at fertilization.
Is the pill safe?
No!
If you are not using the pill, don't start. If you are on the pill now,
take out the patient package insert that should be with the pills and
read it.
If you are not using the pill, don't start. If you are
on the pill now, take out the patient package insert that should be with
the pills and read it. Here are some of the side effects:
* bacterial infections (because the pill weakens the immune system.)
* more susceptible to the AIDS virus (HIV) because the pill weakens the immune system
* pelvic inflammatory disease-an infection of the fallopian tubes that can cause sickness or sterility
* infertility-unable to ever bear children
* cervical cancer
* ectopic pregnancy
* shrinking of the womb (endometrial atrophy)
* mood swings and depression
* breast cancer
* blood clots
* birth defects in children conceived while women are on the pill
* tender breasts
* stroke
* weight gain [ http://www.all.org/newsroom_allblog.php, "The consequences of birth control; Birth Control Mutates Our Fish," https://www.thefredmartinezreport.com/2008/02/birth-control-mutates-our-fish.html]
Moreover, Catholic Exchange found that there is "resistance to recognizing the abortifacient quality of the pill comes from the Christian community":
In his booklet, titled Does the Birth Control Pill Cause Abortions?,
Randy Alcorn states: "The question of whether it causes abortions has
direct bearing on untold millions of Christians, many of them pro-life,
who use and recommend it. For those who believe God is the Creator of
each person and the giver and taker of human life, this is a question
with profound moral implications."
Alcorn was a Protestant pastor
who not only used the pill in his married life, but also counseled
other married couples to do so. He had a vested interest in not
recognizing the pill as an abortifactient. But when confronted with the
facts through his own research, it demanded changes in his own behavior
and philosophy. His booklet was written in 1998 to inform others of the
truth.
Alcorn's booklet has met some opposition. According to
him: "Despite evidence, some pro-life physicians state that the
likelihood of the Pill having an abortifacient effect is infinitesimally
low, or nonexistent.
Though I would very much like to believe this, the scientific evidence does not permit me to do so."
Alcorn,
surprisingly, found that the greatest resistance to recognizing the
abortifacient quality of the pill comes from the Christian community.
"Dr. Walt Larimore has told me that whenever he has presented this
evidence to audiences of secular physicians, there has been little or no
resistance to it. But when he has presented it to Christian physicians
there has been substantial resistance. Since secular physicians do not
care whether the Pill prevents implantation, they tend to be objective
in interpreting the evidence.
After all, they have little or
nothing at stake either way. Christian physicians, however, very much do
not want to believe the Pill causes early abortions. Therefore, I
believe, they tend to resist the evidence. This is certainly
understandable. Nonetheless, we should not permit what we want to
believe to distract us from what the evidence indicates we should
believe."
It's easier to be pro-life when we limit the
discussion to the abortion industry. The inclusion of artificial birth
control complicates and confuses people. With so many opinions even
among Catholics, how is a person to know what to believe? I understand
the confusion. While living in Montana, I had a doctor who was also a
priest, who told me it was not realistic to expect a couple to follow
the Catholic teaching on birth control. He prescribed birth control
pills to many of his female patients. So, is it any surprise there are
many Catholics, ones like me, ignorant of the true teaching? [http://www.catholicexchange.com/node/69551]
Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He want you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost - Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet.
Francis Notes:
- Doctor
of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt
the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church
in such a situation:
"[T]he Pope... WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See."
(The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)
Saint Robert Bellarmine, also, said "the Pope heretic is not deposed ipso facto, but must be declared deposed by the Church."
[https://archive.org/stream/SilveiraImplicationsOfNewMissaeAndHereticPopes/Silveira%20Implications%20of%20New%20Missae%20and%20Heretic%20Popes_djvu.txt]
- "If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?": http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html
- "Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?": http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.html
- LifeSiteNews, "Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial
weight behind communion for adulterers," December 4, 2017:
The AAS guidelines explicitly allows "sexually active adulterous couples
facing 'complex circumstances' to 'access the sacraments of
Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'"
- On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:
"The AAS statement... establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia
has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense."
- On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:
"Francis' heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the
Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters
magisterial documents."
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.
Election Notes:
- Intel Cryptanalyst-Mathematician on Biden Steal: "212Million Registered Voters & 66.2% Voting,140.344 M Voted...Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden" [http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/intel-cryptanalyst-mathematician-on.html?m=1]
- Will US be Venezuela?: Ex-CIA Official told Epoch Times "Chávez started to Focus on [Smartmatic] Voting Machines to Ensure Victory as early as 2003": http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-us-be-venezuela-ex-cia-official.html
http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/01/a-hour-which-will-live-in-infamy-1001pm.html?m=1
http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/epoch-times-show-crossroads-on-capital.html?m=1]