Argumentative essay

Even Catholics are using contraceptives

Outline

Patter 1

Thesis statement: Every person with an active sexual life who wants to prevent a pregnancy or a sexually transmitted disease should use contraceptives.

Pro idea 1: Preventing unwanted pregnancies.

Pro idea 2: Preventing STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease)

Con + Refutation: Catholic religion does not accept the use of contraceptives

Bibliography:

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ESL0022/__P83.HTM

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/justpeace/documents/rc_pc_justpeace_doc_20060526_compendio-dott-soc_sp.html#El%20amor%20y%20la%20formaci%C3%B3n%20de%20la%20comunidad%20de%20personas

Even Catholics are using contraceptives

The use of contraceptives is healthy. Contraceptives are defined as methods that are used to prevent pregnancy. There are different kinds of contraceptives in the market and they are use for females and male. Oral contraceptives help to control childbirth of thousand of babies, but this kind of contraceptives do not take care of sexual transmitted infection as condoms do. Every person with an active sexual life who wants to prevent a pregnancy or a sexually transmitted disease should use contraceptives.

The first reason to promote the use of contraceptives is that they prevent an unwanted pregnancy. In case of teenagers, contraceptives prevent they become young parents and avoid they become responsible to a human being even when they can not be responsible to themselves. Also they avoid complication during pregnancy because their bodies are not completely developed. Some people could take the decision to abort and it could have risk, because the woman could have some complication even death. In case of couples, they can control the childbirth and decide about it when they consider that is the best moment to have children.

A second reason to use contraceptives is that they prevent STD. There are a lot of contraceptives, but just a few of them protect people from infections. This kind of contraceptives like condoms prevent from syphilis, herpes, gonorrhea, Chlamydia, and AIDS. These STD could have simple symptoms like fatigue, headaches, and fever, but they also could have some complex symptoms like weight loss, dementia, infertility or even the death.

The principal opponent of using contraceptives is the catholic religion. As mentioned in the Catholic Catechism (no. 2318) God has the life in his hand and He is the only one who can give life, so Catholics reject the use of contraceptives because this is a bad action that make impossible the procreation. On the other hand, the Social Teaching Compendium (no 233) accepts as legal the abstinence, but it is consider as a natural contraceptive method. Every day most Catholics are using contraceptives because they can protect them form unwanted pregnancies and STD.

Sexuality is something serious and every person decides when to start with their sexual life but they should take care of their health and consider the use of contraceptives. The use of contraceptives prevents unwanted pregnancies and STD. Contraceptives, which sometimes are seen like a taboo, are a bid advantages because they prevents unwanted pregnancies and STD.