Birth control and charity

March 23, 2021
Lynn Yap
San Carlos

I read that U.S. bishops have affirmed that being vaccinated can be an act of charity that serves the common good during the pandemic even though vaccines were developed with abortion-derived cell lines. The bishops arrived at this guideline in warp speed.

I pray that U.S. bishops would use a similar line of thinking to affirm that using birth control could be an act of charity that could save millions of babies from being aborted. Choose before conception. Why doesn’t the Catholic Church support birth control as a means to decrease the number of abortions?
 

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