🧵 It’s Natural Family Planning Awareness Week! Humanae Vitae is FIRE. Here’s how Pope Paul VI predicted the future in that encyclical. 1/8 
In 1968, he said one of the consequences of artificial birth control would be greater marital infidelity. Amiright? #kinsey #divorce 2/8
Another consequence would be the “general lowering of moral standards”... 3/8
How about this one? “A man who grows accustomed to the use of contraceptive methods may forget the reverence due to a woman…” 4/8
“... and disregarding her physical and emotional desires reduce her to being a mere instrument” of sexual pleasure. #whatisawoman #metoo 5/8
Here’s one more: “Finally, careful consideration should be given to the danger of this power passing into the hands of those public authorities who care little for the precepts of the moral law….” 6/8
“... Who will prevent public authorities from favoring those contraceptive methods which they consider more effective? Should they regard this as necessary, they may even impose their use on everyone.” #onechildpolicy #margaretsanger #forcedsterilization 7/8
Bottom Line: “We must accept that there are certain limits, beyond which it is wrong to go, to the power of man over his own body and its natural functions.” #reverence #humanaevitae 8/8
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