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What is the importance of using contraceptives?
By reducing unintended pregnancies and abortions, and facilitating family planning/spacing of births, effective contraception provides both health and social benefits to mothers and their children.
Is it right to use contraceptives?
There is no “right” reason to use contraception. Even though the purpose of birth control is to prevent pregnancy, many women choose to use contraception because of certain health advantages.
Why we should not use contraceptives?
Reasons for failure to continue to use contraception include the following: for some, the risk of producing an unwanted pregnancy adds flavor to the sexual act; some women rationalize their sexual activity, and this usually leads to discontinuation of contraceptive use; failure to change the contraceptive when needs …
What are the effects of contraceptives?
The most common side effects are spotting or bleeding between periods (this is more common with progestin-only pills), sore breasts, nausea, or headaches. But these usually go away after 2 or 3 months, and they don’t happen to everyone who takes the pill. Birth control shouldn’t make you feel sick or uncomfortable.
Why is contraception morally wrong?
The Church teaches that contraception is morally wrong since it violates the very purpose and nature of human sexuality, and this further undermines the dignity of the human person. The Church’s condemnation of artificial contraceptives has been unchallenged for centuries.
What are the disadvantages of using contraceptives?
Adverse effects include nausea, breast tenderness, breakthrough bleeding, amenorrhea, and headaches. Oral contraceptives do not provide protection from STDs. Daily administration is necessary, and inconsistent use may increase the failure rate.
Why is contraception a moral issue?
Because personhood begins at conception, the use of contraceptives is moral. It does not stop the physical beginning of a person, but rather prevents the beginning of personhood.
Is contraception a moral issue?
What are the disadvantages of contraceptives?
What are the consequences of not using contraception?
Using no method of contraception carries a higher cumulative risk of death than using any contraceptive method except that of OCs by older women who smoke. The mortality risks associated with using no contraception and with using OCs are higher in older women than in younger women.
What is the morality of birth control?
We stand on the principle that birth control should be available to every adult man and woman. We believe that every adult man and woman should be taught the responsibility and the right use of knowledge.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using contraceptives?
Advantages of hormonal methods of birth control include that they are all highly effective and their effects are reversible. They do not rely on spontaneity and can be used in advance of sexual activity. Disadvantages of hormonal methods for birth control include: The necessity of taking medications continuously.