CONTRACEPTION: A MOCKERY OF LIFE AND NATURAL ORDER BY: IKWU AUGUSTINE IKWU From time to time in the Laws

Plato engages in theoretical discussion of sexual morality, though actual sexual legislation is restricted to a form of excommunication for adultery. In a way that has been very common during the Christian era, but was rare in pagan antiquity, Plato bases his sexual ethics on the notion that procreation is the natural purpose of sex. Let us imagine a world of anything goes, where humans, the creatures of God think they can dictate for God when they need a child, thereby engaging in the prevention of pregnancy by using artificial methods such as condoms and birth-control pills or natural methods such as avoiding sex during the womans known fertile periods. Little wonder, Hume rejects causality, he must be of the opinion that all sex do not lead to pregnancy; through the means mentioned above; but God has design and reserved sex for married couples such that when they both have sex, they look up to pregnancy as the result of their mating. So what happens when even couples prevent child birth through any means that you can think of? The simple answer is that they are mocking life and natural order as designed by God the creator of all. In this context, the lexical meaning of mockery holds as making something look ridiculous, so let us ask, does it mean that the will of God as in natural order ridiculous? Obviously NO! Because at the end of the account of creation in the book of Genesis, it stand written that God saw that everything He created is good the subsequent statement that He made man dominion over His creature I think is what have been modernly misunderstood for the syndrome of man can propose and dispose nature. It is no news that everyone wants to live, even conjoined twin; but we today hear of medical terms like scanning and the lots which enable the mother or parents to know the nature of the

fetus in the womb before birth, this have enabled many parents to kill their children before birth all in the name of lesser evil, pain and so on. Acts like this simply make nature look ridiculous, for instance some person do not want to born albino so they rather kill it as fetus instead of being born. The general knowledge before now is that man proposes and God disposes, but in this day of many isms, modernism has almost changed this assertion to man can propose and dispose; hereby affirming the belief that God only creates and afterwards absconded, so man is left alone to shape his life; invariably, man can propose to have sex out of married life and be disposed not to even get pregnant not to talk of giving birth. So, we here some immoral ladies utter statements like the fetus before eight weeks is not yet human, it is still my blood, therefore, I can decide to flush it out before it will become human what a world where pleasure continue to drive off treasure that will lead to an ethical future. Oh men how long will heart be closed? Is it not obvious that as the intrauterine devices (IUD's) failed in the 1950s so is condom failing these days? So are we going to continue to seek what is futile and what is false? Because there have been cases of using condom and still there is pregnancy at the end. So who is fooling who here? Or who is mocking who? The object of authentic teaching against contraception, I concur with the church as simply defined as faith and morals. Faith means revealed truth. Morals theoretically means revealed moral principles, but it has long been understood as moral judgment in any area of human conduct. Thus, not only does the Roman Catholic Church prohibit contraception for its members, it also asserts that contraception is universally wrong by declaring that it is contrary to natural law. In this way morals includes both the declaration and the interpretation of natural law. The bedrock of moral teaching against contraception remains conduct not condom, abstinence until appropriate time not pregnancy control.

SOURCES Encarta Dictionary Encyclopedia Britannica/ Contraception The New Jerusalem Bible The Law by Plato