BAD NEWS.Do parents who use artificial birth control tend to see their children less as a gift from God and more as a "technological product"? That's what Dublin Archbishop Desmond Connell believes. In a speech to an Irish college audience reported in The Tablet, Connell said the `contraceptive mentality' evident in in vitro fertilization in vitro fertilization (vē`trō, vĭ`trō), technique for conception of a human embryo outside the mother's body. Several ova, or eggs, are removed from the mother's body and placed in special laboratory culture dishes (Petri dishes); , genetic engineering, and cloning "may not be altogether absent in the practice of family planning family planning Use of measures designed to regulate the number and spacing of children within a family, largely to curb population growth and ensure each family’s access to limited resources. ." The archbishop also compared the difference between natural family planning natural family planning Biological birth control Any FP that does not rely on artificial agents–eg, OCs, 'morning-after' pill, spermicidal foam, RU-486 or devices–eg, condoms, diaphragms, IUDs to prevent conception Methods Rhythm–calendar method, and artificial birth control to those who take advantage of tax loopholes and those who cheat on their taxes. An Irish Times editorial, echoing a flood of critical letters to the editor, called Connell's remarks "simplistic sim·plism n. The tendency to oversimplify an issue or a problem by ignoring complexities or complications. [French simplisme, from simple, simple, from Old French; see simple and dangerous nonsense." |
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