Abortion-Killing: The Silent Genocide: 2 Billion Deaths Victims Worldwide.

[Bucky Ball]

According to the Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church, (reference available on request), as long as a person honestly lives according to ("the dictates of") their conscience, they are saved. NX is an uneducated amateur, simply full of shit.

A woman or couple may honestly decide that they are unable to fully care for and support the real complex needs of a child, or another child at the time, and that they are doing the best thing for their family at the time in limiting their family. Thus, even according to the Moral Theology of the Roman Church, making the difficult decision to prevent a pregnancy (ie using birth control), or preventing a potential child from developing further, ... is in fact the moral thing to do.

In any case, in Moral Theology most Christian traditions, "intent" is always the ruling factor in a determining whether an act is sinful. The Roman Church has always had this ridiculous fiction that "Natural Family Planning" is somehow "moral" even though the "intent" is clearly to prevent a pregnancy. They are total hypocrites.

The Pontifical Commission, set up by Pope John XXXIII, inside the Roman Curia, was given the job, back in the 1960's, to determine the impact of "artificial" birth control on the Roman Church. The disagreements within the commission ultimately led to the publication of the Papal Encyclical, Humanae Vitae, by Paul VI.

When birth control finally arrived, and gave women control over their reproductive systems, with the first oral contraceptives in 1960, dissenters in the Church argued for a reconsideration of the Church positions, on the subject and, in 1963 Pope John XXIII established the above commission, consisting of six European non-theologians to study questions of birth control and populations. After he died in 1963, Pope Paul VI added theologians to the commission and expanded it to 72 members from five continents (including 16 theologians, 13 physicians and five women without medical credentials, with an executive committee of 16 bishops, including seven cardinals).

The commission produced a report in 1966, proposing that ("artificial") birth control was not intrinsically evil and that Catholic couples should be allowed to decide for themselves about, or if, they wished to employ (any) method of birth control. According to the majority report, the use of contraceptives should be regarded as an extension of the already accepted cycle method:

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"The acceptance of a lawful application of the calculated sterile periods of the woman--that the application is legitimate presupposes right motives--makes a separation between the sexual act which is explicitly intended and its reproductive effect which is intentionally excluded. The tradition has always rejected seeking this separation with a contraceptive intention for motives spoiled by egoism and hedonism, and such seeking can never be admitted. The true opposition is not to be sought between some material conformity to the physiological processes of nature and some artificial intervention. For it is natural to man to use his skill in order to put under human control what is given by physical nature. The opposition is really to be sought between one way of acting which is contraceptive and opposed to a prudent and generous fruitfulness, and another way which is, in an ordered relationship to responsible fruitfulness and which has a concern for education and all the essential, human and Christian values."

Paul VI chose to reject the Majority Report, and issued Humanae Vitae, (and disregard the opinions of his OWN eminent theologians and experts), inexplicably.

There is evidence in the Vatican archives, and elsewhere, that Pope JohnPaul I, during his brief reign, was about to reverse the ban, or at the very least, downgrade it to a non-serious matter, and indeed the night before his death, (murder), the papers doing so were seen lying on his desk, in the "appartamento pontifico", in the Apostolic Palace, and have since disappeared, and never been found. The fact that the events observed by the Benedictine nuns in the Papal household, during the evening hours the night before, and during the night of the murder, were sealed forever, and lost to history, by the insistence of the Cardinal Camerlengo, (the Cardinal who stands in for the Pope after his death, during the "sede vacante"..the period of the "empty chair" http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/SV1978.html ), Jean Cardinal Villot .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Villot..... is very suspicious and dishonest.

Thus not only terminating a pregnancy but preventing it in the first place are, according to the Roman Church, judged by INTENT, and the principles of their OWN MORAL Theology, very possibly qare not only moral acts, but if ignored by a woman or couple would be IMMORAL, as their circumstances may dictate that the moral thing to do is to care for the lives they are already responsible for, including their own, in the very best way they can.