Myth No. 2: If it weren't for the Catholic Church, no one would be talking about contraception anyway.
It is not only a series of popes but also a number of prominent secular thinkers who believe that the birth-control pill has been one of the major milestones in human history—a diverse group that runs from public intellectuals of a previous generation like Walter Lippmann to such contemporary scholars as Francis Fukuyama and Robert Putnam. As many pundits had occasion to observe in 2010, the 50th anniversary of the pill, it is hard to think of anything else that has changed life so quickly and dramatically for so many.
In other words, this isn't just a Catholic thing. In severing sex from procreation, humankind set into motion forces that have by now shaped and reshaped almost every aspect of life in the Western world. Families are smaller, birthrates have dropped, divorce and out-of-wedlock births have soared. Demography has now even started to work against the modern welfare state, which has become harder to sustain as fewer children have been produced to replace aging parents.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304724404577297422171909202.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read
One group I'll bet had no idea was the goons who have expanded the welfare state over the last fifty years, and who would have expanded it more if they had been able. I'll bet they had no idea that their reproductive revolution would be the end of their "revolution" in forcing others to do the work they were unwilling to do themselves for the "downtrodden" or "disadvantaged." And now the final complexificator - the folks that wanted birth control and reproductive rights and massive wealth transfers from the young to the old (disguised as social security and medicare) want to limit reproduction to reduce the human footprint, meaning mostly CO2 emissions and urban sprawl (I guess they all just love cities).
So how do your run a welfare state if you don't have masses of young people to exploit to pay for it?
At every turn the use of the federal government becomes a manifestation and direct testimony to the folly of the fatal conceit.
And now they think that more government intervention is going to make the health care system better, and more affordable .... well, I'm sure they've got the consequences all figured out.
It is not only a series of popes but also a number of prominent secular thinkers who believe that the birth-control pill has been one of the major milestones in human history—a diverse group that runs from public intellectuals of a previous generation like Walter Lippmann to such contemporary scholars as Francis Fukuyama and Robert Putnam. As many pundits had occasion to observe in 2010, the 50th anniversary of the pill, it is hard to think of anything else that has changed life so quickly and dramatically for so many.
In other words, this isn't just a Catholic thing. In severing sex from procreation, humankind set into motion forces that have by now shaped and reshaped almost every aspect of life in the Western world. Families are smaller, birthrates have dropped, divorce and out-of-wedlock births have soared. Demography has now even started to work against the modern welfare state, which has become harder to sustain as fewer children have been produced to replace aging parents.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304724404577297422171909202.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read
One group I'll bet had no idea was the goons who have expanded the welfare state over the last fifty years, and who would have expanded it more if they had been able. I'll bet they had no idea that their reproductive revolution would be the end of their "revolution" in forcing others to do the work they were unwilling to do themselves for the "downtrodden" or "disadvantaged." And now the final complexificator - the folks that wanted birth control and reproductive rights and massive wealth transfers from the young to the old (disguised as social security and medicare) want to limit reproduction to reduce the human footprint, meaning mostly CO2 emissions and urban sprawl (I guess they all just love cities).
So how do your run a welfare state if you don't have masses of young people to exploit to pay for it?
At every turn the use of the federal government becomes a manifestation and direct testimony to the folly of the fatal conceit.
And now they think that more government intervention is going to make the health care system better, and more affordable .... well, I'm sure they've got the consequences all figured out.
