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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Best Free "Preventive Health Services" for Women (and Men)


From Prof. Janet E. Smith's Humanae Vitae: A Challenge to Love, section 11:
11. The marital acts by which spouses intimately and chastely unite. . . are. . . good and worthy of human dignity. (32) [emphasis mine]
This one little sentence taken from the text of Humanae Vitae is loaded with clues for preventative health services for women (and the men who live with or anywhere near them).

In the interest of  free, optimum preventative health measures for both men and women (physically, emotionally, spiritually, psychologically), all sexual intercourse must be:

 1)  marital, because all  genital sexual activity OUTSIDE of marriage is the ultimate in "UNPROTECTED" sex!
2) between spouses. Repeat! All genital sexual activity outside of marriage is the ultimate in UNPROTECTED sex!
3) intimate, meaning by mutual consent, initiated by either husband or wife for the true good of the other and/or their family
4) chaste Appropriate to mental, physical, emotional state/health of each/either/both spouse/s . Appropriate to what is good for the children and family, living in a society with others. With sufficient prior reflection, consideration. In co-operation with spouse and God, not mere whim.  There is no such thing as the right use of the marital "right" to sexual intercourse during wife's fertile time, unless spouses are open to conception of a new life. Why? Because a "chaste marital act" consists of husband, wife, and God. Contraception intends to make foremost the husband and wife, intends to cut God out of His role, that of granting/not granting conception of new life.   If either spouse has to do something unnatural to his or her body (barrier interference, temporary or permanent sterilization, abortion-causing drugs before or after the union, procured surgical or chemical abortion) to make sure a new life is not a consequence of the loving, then it is not a truly chaste, loving marital act.
5) good Pleasure for its own sake is "just sex,"  not necessarily 'good,' and the human heart is made to know the difference. "Just sex" doesn't reach the whole being of  spouses: physical, emotional, spiritual, psychological. The chaste marital act does reach and nourish spouses physicially, emotionally, spiritually, psychologically. In an article from Lay Witness Magazine, author John F. Crosby writes that Pope John Paul II teaches that marriage is not intended to be "legalized lust;" rather, the mission of marriage is that of overcoming lust with bonafide love.
6) worthy of human dignity emphasize HUMAN, in possession of intellect, reason, and will in conjunction with emotional and sensual being of husband and wife for the personal and common good of all.

To read more of Prof. Janet Smith's articles on Humanae Vitae and sexuality, go to www.janetesmith.com


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