Birth Control & State Control

It strikes me as an opportune time, in the context of B. Hussein Obama’s entrance into American’s private sex life, to examine the idea of birth control which has the whole nation atwitter.

Certainly, there are many people who realize the irony is a birth control agenda, the consequence of which, makes for a lack of self control. Birth control is a means of sex without consequences, or what has come to be known as “free love.” Birth control, especially for the unmarried, is a way to achieve, apart from self control, the gratifying pleasure of passion divorced from the necessary pledge of commitment and the glad fruit of union. In the words of G. K. Chesterton, birth control is a “name … by which it is possible to filch the pleasure belonging to a natural process while violently and unnaturally thwarting the process itself.” Birth control thus is to take that which is natural and make it unnatural.

Second, there is the irony in the phrase itself. Birth control? Conception control maybe. Conception prevention perhaps. Even conception destruction often. But Birth control? Birth control would be deciding whether or not to undergo water birth or home birth. Birth control is choosing which Obstetrics Doctor one chooses. Contraceptives during sex is birth control the same way that choosing between a Glock and a Smith and Wesson while shopping is gun control.

Next, as I’m reading about this whole B. Hussein Obama contraceptive imbroglio I am taken back to Huxley’s “Brave New World,” where the citizenry in the dystopian statist world engage with sex with one another in the casual way that we may wave at an acquaintance. In all my reading on this subject matter what is brought forth repeatedly is the truth that the casual sex fostered by divorcing sex from conception serves the interest of the totalitarian state as such casual sex is a direct assault on the family. “Free love,” engendered by contraceptive nirvana, breaks down family integrity, either by voiding the formation of family or by sundering the family due to illicit affairs, thus preventing the creation of families to challenge the interests of the state in favor of tribal or familial interests or by throwing broken families on the paternal care of the state. If the state is to steal sovereignty from the family and keep that stolen sovereignty for itself, the state must do all it can to enfeeble the family. State sponsored contraception is one way of doing that. It is kind of ironic that the result of state sponsored birth control is state population control.

Fourth, the contraceptive carnival serves the end of our egalitarian wonderland. Historically, the responsibility of raising children have turned young married men into mature protective men and has drawn out the natural mothering instinct from women. Contraception mutes those realities from being developed as young men opt for the playboy lifestyle well into their late 20’s and young ladies, even if having children, sublimate those mothering instincts due to a blizzard of hateful messages of all things feminine, in preference for a career and daycare for the children they migh have. On this point we turn to Chesterton again who could say with his usual wit, “it (birth control) is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.” Families with small numbers of children due to contraception can allow the pretense to continue that there is no such thing as distinctly male and female roles. Men and women are interchangeable parts that have no clearly identified unique mission. Egalitarianism is sustained.

Fifth, I think we need to realize that if birth control actually resulted in fewer abortions you can be sure that the Obama administration would not support state sponsored birth control. In the documentary, “The Monstrous Regiment of Women,” a former Abortion mill owner revealed that she pushed birth control for young women because she had the data that proved that an increase of birth control contraceptives opportunities for young women guaranteed an increase of abortions thus increasing the profit on her bottom line as the necessity of abortions would increase.

Finally, someone needs to point out again the grisly irony that finds the generation that legalized the most demonic form of birth control (abortion) will be the first generation upon which the practice of Senior Citizen control will be practiced. The socialized health care that was just passed in these united States is, in reality, an abortion provision for Senior Citizens. The children of the Roe vs. Wade generation that made it through alive are going to return the favor of “self-control” upon the generation that legalized birth control. However, don’t miss the fact that as it is the state pushing birth control at the beginning of life so it will be the state through their death panels which will be pushing senior citizen control. Seldom has the proverb, “what goes around comes around,” been so clearly seen to be true for those with eyes to see.

Ultimately, a society defined by contraceptives and “free love” is a society that will be controlled by the state in life and death.

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him. View all posts by jetbrane