birth control and the catholic church

in the times of the ancient aztecs and greeks -when men as labor units were rather homogeneous-, the state would promote reproduction, so as to have, among others, more taxes and soldiers on their side. perhaps they thought, as well, that this would keep wages low enough so as to afford cheap labor for the construction of their temples and roads.

with time, however, thanks to technological progress and knowledge-based production, the states that kept promoting the multiplication of the mere quantity of their citizens started to lag behind; otherwise, they simply stagnated. their failure to implement new technologies and quality work in the production process kept production growing at a continuous and even gradually decreasing pace, just as new mouths with no other thing than their hands to do their work on fixed and even perishing resources kept on coming.

in contrast, those states that bet on improving the quality of their citizens´ human capital (without necessarily limiting in a direct or active way their quantity), started to leave behind all other countries just as their production grew progressively.

these states didn´t impose any restraints on the quantity of newcoming citizens via stricter/discriminatory border policies, perverse vasectomy campaigns or mandatory birth controls. women, via their liberation movement, chose to use birth control pills or even to abort just in order to have such a special thing as is a child at the perfect moment and under the most adequate conditions. men started using condoms for the sake of mitigating the proliferation of std´s, among others.

these measures, true, were not always altruistic, but this doesn´t necessarily mean that they´ve ever been mean-intentioned actions or that they´re evil in themselves. the fact that children are born under better conditions in countries where birth control is practiced most regularly, openly and safely, might mean that to-be-parents in those countries are choosing rightly (for their own interests and those of their children) how many children to have and just when exactly to have them.

and yet some anti-catholic factions among the catholic church have been alienating moderate, sometimes truer, catholics. they´ve been stigmatizing free-will and family-oriented decision-making. they´ve been distracting the attention from the self-examination process that has to be done regarding abusive authorities, gender roles, and the representation of non-european, non-reactionary, forms of catholicism. and all of this for what they take for more "soldiers," more "taxes" and cheaper labor to build their temples!