Leaving Life up to Chance

“The fact is, as experience shows, that new life is not the result of each and every act of sexual intercourse. God as wisely ordered laws of nature and the incidence of fertility in such a way that successive births are already naturally spaced through the inherent operation of these laws.”
---- Pope, Paragraph 11

Sex does not always result in babies. God controls the body’s baby making and decided when babies should be born. By using birth control you are “playing god” (and that is a sin) thus, birth control is evil.

The Pope’s perspective on “Natural Law” requires leaving the possibility of becoming pregnant up to chance of when the woman has sex during her cycle. With Science we are able to see how the body produces children and what the body has to be doing in order to become pregnant. The chance that a woman becomes pregnant is not up to god. God is unable to point to a woman and say “you are pregnant!” The woman must have sex when an egg is released in order for fertilization to occur.

Even with god controlling the rate that children are born with his natural laws, does not mean that the rate that god allows children to come is the rate that correct for people’s lives. Back before birth control, women would have lots of babies. And they would not stop having babies until they had become too old to conceive. But the problem was that the older the woman got, the higher chance that she could die during childbirth. That doesn’t seem like a fate that god would want for the majority of the population of women. With medicine, humans are able to live longer than the older times, so the age that women would die during childbirth is relatively young compared to how much longer they could live if they were not having babies.

Besides, there are definately some people who are not prepared to have children, even if they are married. But not being allowed to use birth control with a clear concsious, they have no power over their lives and attaining their goals.
In this day in age, families cannot afford to have that many children like they could in the older days. Children have become an economic burden rather than an economic aid like they used to be. Having children puts stress on the family and on society with welfare and services. It also is a stress on the earth with the population boom that the pope mentioned spelling doom for the human race if we do not conserve our resources before they run out.

Birth control enables people to live their lives in the best possible way in our society, and to choose when having a child is right for them.

I think in all, God has not proved to be good birth control for this planet.