Birth control has been a very controversial topic and taboo since the classical period. Before one can grasp why and how birth control and the use of birth control can be controversial, one will need to understand what birth control is and the history. First birth control needs to be a woman’s basic right, and by the government controlling birth control the government are controlling the liberty for women. Birth control is a practice, Material, or device by which sexual intercourse can be rendered incapable of producing a pregnancy (Walker p.161).
While birth control through had been practice by both men and women in a extensive variety of ways, but only in the past two centuries that birth control has become a big matter of public debate. At a point a time even speaking and writing about birth control was not protected by our first amendment. The Law the forbid any mere mention of birth control was the 1873 Comstock Act, which was a federal law, designed to prevent the distribution of immoral material (walker p.161). This law was use to censor communication about birth control, even any medical advice was deemed obscene and placed in the same category as pornographic literature. Birth control has been condemned and seen as immoral and obscene by public officials such as President Theodore Roosevelt. President Roosevelt referred to birth control “as suicide of the race” (walker p.161).
But way before the 17th century birth control have been condemned. In the Judeo-Christian period which was a heavily religious historical period, even though the bible didn’t make any mention of birth control or contraceptive, but early fathers of the church condemn it. Saint Augustine concluded that the only justification for any sexual intercourse was to perpetuate the human race. In his words, “that which is done for lust must be done in such a way that it is not for lust’s sake” (contra Julianum 5, 9). As time when on other western theologian came up with more ways to place...