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Tuesday, May 23, 2006

The Pretty Face of the Culture of Death
Here is what the 22-year-old "smart" face of Korea's Sexual Revolution, a student at Korea's top-ranking institution of tertiary education, has to say on the subject of contraception in a recent televised ad for the birth control pill:


    I'm Kim So-mi from the class of 2005 at Seoul National University... If you want to do love right, I think you have to be really smart. It would make me sick to cry and pout like a fool. Women who are in love have to be really careful.

    [image and text from SNU Student in Birth Control Commercial Speaks Out]
Here is what Saint Flannery O'Connor had to say on the subject:
    The Church's stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists at heart, there is little wonder that it causes unease. I wish various fathers would quit trying to defend it by saying that the world can support forty billion. I will rejoice in the day when they say: This is right, whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding.

    [from a 1959 letter quoted in A Dog Named Spot]
Here is what Sancta Mater Ecclesia definitively pronounced on the topic in 1968 in what was perhaps the XXth Century's most counter-cultural document: Humanae Vitae.

Roma locuta est, causa finita est.