Recent discussion at Aquinas Institute over care of the environment reminded me of yet another contradiction in our society that desperately wants to go “green”:
AB over at Gift of Self said it better than I can—almost two years ago—in a post called “Going Green and the Pill”. She notes, for example, the discrepancy between our over-sensitization to the kinds of food we put in our bodies (like concern for having organic everything—from milk to tomatoes to toothpaste) and the kinds of things women put in their bodies to prevent pregnancies. She offers a couple of examples from the media of the harmful effects of high levels of estrogen on water supplies and fish populations.
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On a slightly different note, but still about contraception, a quote I found particularly compelling comes from Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver quoted in First Things by Mary Eberstadt [Aug/Sept 2008, no. 185, p 40]:
Contraception has released males—to a historically unprecedented degree—from responsibility for their sexual aggression.
There is some food for thought.
