Contraception Intermission

As I stated in “Contraception Preamble“, I would provide my comments to this series of posts either as actual comments to each post or in a separate post.  This is my third Contraception Intermission for the series “Contraception: Why Not?” by Professor Smith.

This intermission is just centered around “Contraception: Why Not? (part 13)“.  Reading part 13 once again made me wonder how many of us ever really had a discussion with our perspective spouse in regards to contraception and the role it would or would not play in our future marriage?  How many of us even gave contraception even a personal thought or did any research or even prayed about it?  I know that when I got married it was just a given that we would use birth control and that my wife Heidiwould be the one doing what ever it was with birth control that needed to be done.  We didn’t talk to our pastor or each other, we didn’t study the bible or pray about it nor did we put any effort into knowing how the birth control worked or what it would do to my wife’s body.  After all, it was just part of life.

I think most people are or were no different than my wife and I were.  Something that impacts the marriage in such a intimate way gets nothing more than a cursory glance.  In many instances a “chemical” is used to “alter” the natural biological design and workings of the woman’s body and yet we seem to just shrug our shoulders and act like there is no reason to take a second glance at it let alone a first.  When you stop and think about it, isn’t that just weird?

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