Personal Note XIV

Yahweh in (יהוה‎):
Moses and the Burning Bush

My views on contraceptives |
Thursday – November 20, 2025

I am in favor of contraceptives for a couple of reasons: I do not believe that it would be a great idea to put a child to the world that may not have parents who love her; as I covered in my post about abortion, I do believe that every life is precious but I do not believe that stopping or hindering that life from being created is the same action as abortion; I also believe that yes, actually women do have autonomy as many moderns would put it, and I see no reason to restrict this autonomy when it comes to contraception. There's also talk about the potential development of contraceptives that may work on males, but I need more information about those in order for me to form a coherent opinion. All in all, I do not believe that stopping life from being created is immoral and indeed it could even be construed that doing so, hindering the creation of life, is a sign of God's divine providence: that child was simply not meant to be, and if against all odds that child should survive the attempts to hinder her conception then I believe that she was meant to be. Yes, I believe that God works in mysterious ways and that beyond what can be labeled artificial contraception there is such a thing a natural contraception, and indeed materially natural contraception could be seen as the opposite of sexual attraction: a man that is not attractive to a woman may still conceive a child with that woman, but the fact that the woman finds no attraction in this man is itself a natural form of contraception, and indeed many scientists would perhaps claim that this is a form of evolutionary bias, a subtle bias against certain adverse genetic loads. I am not a scientist and I will not be making any scientific argument, but I did want to provide that piece of information; if you seek more of a scientific and material explanation, then I encourage you to read more about the science of attraction online or perhaps in your studies, etc. So if God has designed the natural contraception, with a rightful and moral purpose, why then should this not apply to artificial contraception? After all, would it not be the same from the point of view of nature: is it not the case then that artificial contraception prevents something that wasn't meant to happen? Yes, I can see the counterargument: that a woman who has moved past the point of attraction into bed with a man should ultimately then take responsibility for her actions, and this is perhaps true, but do bear in mind that we are living in the era of the Kali Yuga. Yes, from the point of view of ancient times and traditions, I would also argue that contraception is immoral, but then again we are living in a time of profound degeneration and the fact that people end up not putting more people into the world I view as a positive, since that would mean that those souls would potentially be prevented from gaining material existence, something that I have very briefly covered in the past. So yes, allow me to modify my stance: ultimately I do believe that the essence of artificial contraception is immoral, but I also believe that it may be a necessary thing, and as such it is just as well during the Kali Yuga. Essentially what I am saying is this: there are natural forms of contraception and they occur continuously; and then there are artificial forms of contraception and while they may be immoral from a divine point of view, I do believe that they still prevent a pregnancy that likely would and should have been prevented in a time prior to moral decline. Yes, in the past that woman would never have put herself in bed with a man whose child she does not want to conceive.

    In the end, what good would it be to the child to put her into a world in decline if she wasn't meant to be in the first case. This, I admit, is a profound question on the nature of providence and I do not have time to address it here, but you can read more about that topic in earlier posts. Verily, a situation can be complicated and it can contain multiple internal contradictions, and such is the case with contraception: the artificial part and the removal of responsibility is wrong and immoral, but one has to also take into full account the inherent nature of contraception and in most cases I argue that the modern world has overridden the need and the impulse that used to constitute natural forms of contraception and this is why artificial forms should be seen as a function of our times, the Kali Yuga.

    I just wanted to clarify: I am not in favor of contraception without a divine reason, and my view is that most women are divinely moved towards contraception, for a reason, a good and sacred reason, in my view.

Reginald Drax – November 20, 2025.