Pro-Life: The Work of His Hands

• Centenary of Blessed Fancisco of Fatima
  
• An Era of Great Popes
  
• Breaking the Child's Self Will
  
• Marriage is a Sign of Christ's Covenant with His Church
  
• Fatima Family Forum - Letters to the Editor
  
• News Briefs & Comments
  
• I Don't Want To Go There
  
• Those Who Are Promoting Abortion Are Breaking All of the Commandments
  
• The Bible: What Protestants Don't See and What Catholics Miss
  
• Questions & Answers
  
• Our Lady of Cuapa
  
• Review by Fr. James Miara: A Priest is a Priest Forever
  
• Reverence in Church
  
• Blessed Mother Teresa & St. Padre Pio on Human Life
  
• Editorial - The Lies of the Pro-Choice Movement

The Lies of the Pro-Choice Movement

The modern pro-choice movement is the spawn of the "sexual revolution" of the 1960's, in which a few million angry college students, abandoned traditional norms of decency and the marriage bond. In its place they proposed a culture of what they termed "free love", which turned out to be a euphemism for unbridled lust; sex without responsibility or commitment.

As the world has since seen, sex without responsibility is sex without love. The "free love" of these sexual revolutionaries turned out to be not so free at all, but rather was emotionally and physically destructive on a grand scale.

The education establishment denies all this. With typically modern schizophrenia, they aggressively advertise sexuality as a no-strings-attached recreational activity, while at the same time spending all of their time warning against the risks of this behavior. Having never known the wonder of committed, life-giving conjugal love, its adherents are passing on the only knowledge of sexuality that they do know: sex as a momentarily diverting activity with an alarming collection of risks.

Consequently, says Pope Benedict, sex is taught as risk management. The wonder and beauty of conjugal love is reduced to a series of don'ts: don't get a sexually transmitted disease, don't get overly attached to your temporary "partner", and, above all, don't get pregnant.

Never mind that these dangers, real and imagined, vanish when sexual activity is relegated to its proper place, i.e., marriage. For the "children of the revolution", the traditional route is not an option.

They justify their program by claiming that, once children are taught the "safeguards" against sex's inherent "risks", they will be free to make "informed decisions" about when and how to engage in sexual activity. This is nonsense. How can children make informed decisions when they are deliberately left uninformed about the positive purpose and true beauty of the sexual act, as well as its rightful place as the consummation of marriage?