The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1960-02-12
JOSEPH BREIC-
New Foe
For India

IT IS A SAFE guess that the Chinese communists
are pleased with the decision of the Nehru govern
ment to expand its artificial birth prevention program
among the Indian people.
Indeed, communists everywhere will welcome
this development, as they do everything that helps
to make the free world more susceptible to eventual
conquest.
COMMUNISTS do not possess wisdom, but they
do have cunning, and cunning sometimes can see what
wisdom perceives.
Under Stain, the Russian Communist party re-
versed a policy, which until then had been Marxist
dogma, of encouraging free love that is. lust) along
with anti-birth measures and degradation of the
family.
STAIN WAS not far short of being a maniac;
but even so he was able to realize that to destroy
marriage and the family was, in the long run, to de.
stroy the vitality and stability of the nation.
There are two chief facts about birth-preyention
that the planned parenthooders, and those deceived
by then-hke Nehru-do not grasp. The first Is the
wrongness of contraception in itself; the second is its
corrosive effect.
THE EVIL IN the contraceptive act is clear to
those whose c0nsclences are keenly alive to the rights
of God, and to His will, made known through the
Scriptures, the Church and the laws of nature.
However, for those whose consciences are in
error, or have been talked down by desire and con-
venlence, 1t is difficult to ~pin-point the evil. The need
Tor decency In speech is one reason for the difficulty.
ALL THE SAME, anyone ought to be able to see
that two spirits are degraded when a husband and
wife treat each other as instruments of bodily pleas
ure while outlawlng, chemically or mechanically, the
purpose for which God made man and woman male
and female, and instituted marriage.
FURTHER, contraception, like intemperance or
lying, feeds upon itself. Physically, it is degeneration;
generation is excluded. What is even worse, progress
sive spiritual degeneration is a consequence.
Self-sacrifice, self-mastery-the will to refrain
from wrong use of goods given by God to mans the
essence of character formation and of spiritual en-.
noblement.
SELEINDULcENcE is the contrary. 1t is at the
root of erosion of character and of the debasement
OF the spirit. Contraceptlon is a self-lndulgence that
goes like a rot to deep depths in human beings.
What the planned parenthooders and the Nehrl
government do not realize is that although they may
be able to institute anti-birth practices, they will not
be able to stop them, or to control them.
n RED CHINESE pressuring India at her bor-
ders-and through India the free world-doubtless
recognize in Nehru's anti-birth program an ally in the
longrange ommuni plan for domination Of the
earth.
1t is not merely that China's population will grow,
while India's first grows static and then begins to de-
cline. There will be in addition a weakening of the
fiber of manliness and Womanliness in the Indian
nation.
THE HOME and the family will deteriorate, at
first slowly and then at an accelerated rate. And to
deteriorate the family is to begin the process Of rot
ting the base on which the nation stands.
We all know that India has grave problems, one
ton will inevitably prove to be one more problem
perhaps the worst of all. 1t will solve nothing; it will
only tend to the degeneration of the nation.
TO GIVE a PEOPLE contraception when they
need nutrition and social justice is TO hand them
stones instead of bread. The communists, | am COM
fident, approve heartily of the activities of the planned
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